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This is fantastic stuff.
So if we're talking about the broader picture, i.e. Hamas being a product of Israeli policy, then we must talk only about what has gone on since Oct 7th. But if we want to talk specifically about the genocide on the Palestinians in Gaza that's been happening since Oct 7th, we must instead focus on the 80 years before that date.
Fantastic stuff.
Yup. Kinda like how if we focus on genocide, which let me be clear I think is a perfectly reasonable issue to be a single issue voter over, we're accused of being a single issue voter. But if we list other things too just to get the point across then we're entitled children who are just angry we didn't get everything we wanted.
Fantastic stuff indeed.
If the single issue is something as monumental as genocide, or climate change then I don't think the accusation of being a single issue voter is one that needs any defense. Yes, I'm voting on this single issue, because it's that important to me. It's not parking tickets, immigration quotas or marginal welfare claims, it's THE FUCKING FUTURE OF THE HUMAN RACE.
It's not idealistic or naive in any way to be insistent on topics like these. The opposite is true: it's jaded and cynical to treat them as merely political.