WASHINGTON, May 18 (Reuters) - Several top White House aides say they are confident protests across U.S. college campuses against Israel’s offensive in Gaza will not translate into significantly fewer votes for Joe Biden in November’s election, despite polls showing many Democrats are deeply unhappy about the president’s policy on the war.
The White House optimism on the issue, which is shared by many in the Biden campaign, runs contrary to dire warnings from some Democratic strategists and youth organizers who warn misjudging the situation could cost Biden votes in a tight race with Republican rival Donald Trump.
It reminds me of the Star Trek TOS episode “City On The Edge of Forever.”
When McCoy goes back in time to the 1930s he changes the future and ends the Federation. When Kirk and Spock go back they discover that a rising anti-war sentiment would lead to America staying out of WW2, allowing the Nazis to take control of the world.
I had to look up the date of TOS it aired 1966–1969 during the Vietnam war.
The lesson to be learnt here is that stopping the Vietnam war meant the Nazis would take over the world.
The anti-war sentiment won in 1973. That is year the Nazis and communists took over America and the whole world.
And that’s all the fault of college kids protesting against the Vietnam war.
So, you don’t know the difference between “1930” and “1970.”
You don’t know who was fighting in the Vietnam War.
Maybe, just maybe, instead of looking up the dates of old TV shows, you should read some actual history and basic math books?
https://bookshop.org/p/books/a-young-people-s-history-of-the-united-states-revised-and-updated-howard-zinn/18074845?ean=9781644212516
https://bookshop.org/p/books/math-made-easy-brain-based-learning-elementary-and-middle-school-math-james-paicopolos/15984839?ean=9798585055546
I am substituting the Nazis for the Soviets as an example.
In 1970 the argument was that if America pulled out of Vietnam the commies would take over the world.
For every time 1930 is used as an excuse to promote war, a lot of pointless wars have been lost without dr. Evil taking over the world.
That’s like saying because Jack the Ripper stabbed people no surgery should ever be allowed.
There were plenty of people who were against America getting into WW1 who turned around years later and pushed for war in 1930.
No, that’s an entirely different episode of Star Trek.