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In reply to the discussion: Florida Democrats call for new party leadership and strategy after yet another GOP rout [View all]deurbano
(2,895 posts)We have a really nice neighbor here in San Francisco-- a middle-aged Palestinian-American, Muslim man, living in a big house with extended family. It seems he inherited being the patriarch of the family after his father died, and he has two or three other properties (inherited from the father), and I think the income (one property includes a deli, and the others might be rented out, if not used by family members) helps sustain the whole family, including members no longer living in the large house. After his father died, his mother moved back to Israel, as they still have close family there.
At any rate, my husband was shocked when this man said he hadn't voted for either presidential candidate, and the reason he didn't vote for Biden was because he'd raise taxes! I don't think this guy is at all likely to have an income of over $400,000, and property owners in CA are more likely to be negatively affected by this administration's tax changes than anything Biden has proposed, so he must be consuming some social media that's put this fear in him. But even if he believed he might have to pay a bit more, where is the concern for other people? Or at least, the concern for other Muslims, other immigrants, or Palestinian family still in Israel or occupied territories? I mean, he didn't actually vote for the MAGAt King, but it's disheartening that so many fellow Americans have such a self-centered orientation. (On a personal level, he is incredibly generous, and if he sees us having a problem with our car, for example, he immediately offers to help; it was disorienting to find out his political position, especially here in SF.)