Read on Twitter
1/ A really thoughful thread
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="⬇️" title="Pfeil nach unten" aria-label="Emoji: Pfeil nach unten"> from my friend, and fellow Iran dissident @memarsadeghi, on the terrible choice between good-on-Iran-but-awful-in-most-other-ways Trump and decent-person-but-likely-awful-on-Iran Biden. And why she won& #39;t vote for Trump. https://twitter.com/memarsadeghi/status/1297911692656082946">https://twitter.com/memarsade...
2/ As Mariam correctly notes, character matters a lot. Until 2016, that was a cornerstone of the right& #39;s thinking.
And as I& #39;ve grown older, I& #39;ve come to belive it too: that a candidate& #39;s stated views matters less than his/her character and general worldview.
And as I& #39;ve grown older, I& #39;ve come to belive it too: that a candidate& #39;s stated views matters less than his/her character and general worldview.
3/ No matter how hard you spin it, there& #39;s just no way to say anything positive about Trump& #39;s character. He is, to borrow a phrase from @SamHarrisOrg, "a child in a man’s body. He is a malignantly selfish, ignorant and petty person." That matters. https://twitter.com/KerryHowley/status/1296637315352272908">https://twitter.com/KerryHowl...
4/ My friends who work on Iran (in the US and elsewhere) may say: "but what does that have to do with us?" I can see the case for focusing on only one cause, but I& #39;m not sold on it. The movement for freedom and democracy in Iran is intertwined with the movement globally.
5/ A United States that is transformed into a more cruel, more racist, less democratic place is bad for the cause of democracy and human rights everywhere around the globe, including Iran.
6/ Much like Mariam, I think the answer is to support Biden, but to try, as much as possible, to hold him to account. Don& #39;t let the #IranLobby surround him and his advisors. Continue to draw attention to the evils of the IRI and the lies its lobby tells to Americans.
