URGENT: Polls Close in 2 Hours in Michigan. You Must Go Vote Now.
URGENT APPEAL TO ALL MICHIGANDERS FROM MICHAEL MOORE!
The polls for the Democratic presidential primary in Michigan are going to close in less than 3 hours. All of you who are my fellow Michiganders have a rare chance to have a direct say, and each of you as a single person can directly affect bringing this war crime that you and I are funding with our tax dollars to an end. Use it! There’s still time to vote before 8pm. Most of you live within a mile or two of a voting location!
The way to have your voice heard is to vote “Uncommitted” on your ballot. This does NOT mean you are voting against Biden. What it does mean is you are joining thousands of other Michiganders who, like myself, are part of the “Listen To Michigan” campaign where voters today in Michigan are sending a message to Biden that we do not support the slaughter in Gaza or his funding of it. He must not only demand a ceasefire, but also let Prime Minister Netanyahu know that the American people will no longer bankroll the mass killing of Palestinians, nor support the removal of the Palestinian people from their land or the continued establishment of apartheid policies that deny the Palestinians of their basic human rights. This action today at the polls is supported by Jewish Voice for Peace, former Michigan Congressman Andy Levin, the majority floor leader of the Michigan State House of Representatives and numerous Arab-American, Jewish and local union organizations. The call for ceasefire has been endorsed by the UAW, the teachers’ union (Michigan Education Association) and approximately 200 other unions and locals nationwide (including the National Nurses Union, postal workers, SEIU, and the flight attendants union. Yes, even the flight attendants are actively working to end this madness. Every poll has shown that between 70-80% of Democratic voters want an immediate ceasefire and an end to this war.
President Biden is not listening. This is crushing to all of us who voted for him. And if you listen to young people, to Arab and Muslim Michiganders, and millions of progressives, one thing is clear: We run the risk of Biden losing the election in November and Donald Trump being reinstated simply because too many voters will not violate their conscience and vote for someone who has funded a massacre of historic proportions. Joe Biden. There is still time though for Biden to do what his own conscience is probably telling him: This is wrong. This is murder. Netanyahu is a war criminal. The best way to not only save lives, but to save Israel, is to end this attempt at genocide. No one will win if we stay on the Biden-Netanyahu road.
You have just 2 hours to participate in a profound and potentially successful effort to save Palestinian lives, the lives of the hostages and the political life of Joe Biden.
Please, if you can, and if you haven’t voted yet today, stop what you’re doing right now, get in your car and drive to your voting location. Vote “Uncommitted” on the ballot. It’s the best way to save Biden in November and to guarantee the end of Donald Trump. Failure to do so is a huge risk. As Michelle Goldberg wrote in the New York Times on Friday, “Biden is in danger of losing Michigan and, with it, the whole election” due to his support of the slaughter in Gaza. Send a message right now. Stand up for our Arab and Muslim neighbors, friends, coworkers, and classmates who share this great state with us. Stop reading this. Go vote. Polls close at 8pm.
In solidarity and for peace,
Michael Moore
Michael Moore Says Michigan’s “Uncommitted” Campaign Can Send Biden a Vital Message About Gaza
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/biden-michigan-primary-uncommitted-michael-moore/
Dear Michael,
Please stop making people see this as a single issue election. You are doing a disservice to the Nation.
I continue to see Americans become single issue voters instead of keeping their heads out of their asses and voting for the best character candidate. There has always been and there will always be a good reason to not vote for someone. Your job as a voter is to see past the single reason and vote for the best person anyway. Why? Because you will never know (and neither will the candidate) enough about the issue to make the right decision all by yourself. The best you can hope for is a good decision based upon a good person’s best attempt to do a good thing for all of us instead of just some of us.
There are thousands of good reasons for what is happening in the Middle East. There are a few million good ways to help the people involved. President Biden has been a part of, seen a lot of, and will be responsible for some of what is happening right now. With so many other players responsible for so many parts of what is happening, can you tell with any certainty what President Biden is responsible for? What did Trump do to cause the current troubles? Because Trump instigated much of the world’s current crises.
I was taught through many opportunities to die, that life is a gift that very many people do not appreciate unless it is only their own. Trump is one of those people. Biden is of the variety that believes that he was put here to be of service to others. He is not always the best at what he wants to be. But which servant of the people has been?
The one truth about Trump is that he has always and will continue to only serve himself. If it makes you scared witless voters feel better to know who is going to screw you and take every imaginable advantage of you, then no one can stop you from voting to hurt yourselves with Trump.
But if you are willing to vote for someone who knows more than you do about how your government is supposed to work, someone who has worked with others on so many sides of so many issues, someone whose entire life has been devoted to all the people instead of just some, someone who has made a lot of mistakes and admitted to them, someone who will not fail to put your issues before their own, then vote for any number of seriously good candidates that have nothing to do with Trump.
I may not live to see what Americans will do to themselves but I hope that we overcome our willingness to beat up the best of us just because we are attracted to what appears to be a strong white male.
As always, I wish you nothing but the very best Michael.
David
I am seriously thinking of cancelling my subscription. Biden did not create the problem in the Middle East. I have had enough of Democrats shooting themselves in the foot. I do not agree with Netanyahu and his reign of terror, but Biden only has so much power. We have threats to democracy right here at home. We have a golden opportunity to marginalize Republicans in 2024 and this crusade and ones like it may just give the Republicans the opportunity to turn the tide against us. Hamas gets a free ride. The three leaders of Hamas are worth $11 billion dollars while living in luxury in Qatar while their own people 65% of them before the October attacks required humanitarian aid. Biden can only do so much. He is no friend of Netanyahu. Netanyahu has the support of over 2 million Jewish settlers who would love to see Palestinians in Gaza pushed off the refugee camps in Egypt. Egypt will have no part of that potential humanitarian crisis. There are only 6 million Jews in Israel. Unless the Israelis stop Netanyahu, there is little Biden can do. I quote from Doug Floto who writes some newsletter I have never heard of who commented that "I remind them that Israel was FOUNDED in terror by Israeli nationalists bent on statehood." Great, Michael, why don't you just open the door to people who hate Jews and ignore the fact that there are Israelis who feel as strongly as we do that what is happening in Gaza is terrible. If they cannot throw Netanyahu out, what makes you think the Biden has the power to do so.