Democrats Scrubbed An Issue From Their Party Platform — And It's Going Under The Radar
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For the first time in more than a decade, the Democratic Party platform includes no mention of abolishing the death penalty.

On Monday, the Democrats approved their 2024 platform, which includes no mention of the death penalty. This year’s platform marks the first time since 2004 the platform has not mentioned the death penalty (the 2008 and 2012 platforms called for making the punishment less arbitrary).

Public support for the death penalty has been gradually declining. A Gallup poll last year found that 65% of Democrats oppose the punishment.

The Democratic National Committee did not respond to an email asking if the party still supports abolishing the death penalty.

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  • tacosanonymous
    525·
    20 days ago

    The far right movement isn’t an excuse for everyone else to shift right.

    • Samvega@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      251·
      20 days ago

      “They’re trying to make the world infinitely worse! We must oppose them by making the world a finite amount worse!”

    • DirkMcCallahan@lemmy.world
      242·
      20 days ago

      Oh, I agree completely. I think it’s disgusting how the right has succeeded in shifting the Overton window a ridiculous amount over the past decade or so.

      • Fish [Indiana]@midwest.socialEnglish
        7·
        20 days ago

        How so? She did the “both sides” thing during her speech, and did nothing to actually condemn Israel’s actions. She called out Hamas for the October 7 attack. It’s as if Democrats think that Palestinians are just genociding themselves. Her position on Israel-Palestine seems to be to condemn Hamas and create the most lethal military of all time.

        • kescusay@lemmy.worldEnglish
          14·
          20 days ago

          The “both sides” thing, as you put it, is acknowledging that Hamas started this current round of violence with its horrifying actions on October 7th, which is the truth. But she also specifically called for Palestinians to have the right to self-determination and autonomy, which is further than Biden was willing to go.

          Israel is currently being run by a corrupt madman. Sadly, so are its neighbors, particularly Iran. That puts the United States in the unenviable position of trying to prevent Israel’s destruction (which would be a once-in-a-century horror) while trying to pressure the corrupt madman in charge of it to end his own genocidal assault on Gaza.

          Now imagine Trump in charge. Trump would be actively working to make things much, much worse.