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The Democrats are not protectors, they're not heroes, they're not martyrs. The Democrat party is not a revolutionary party, they're a party of people who generally liked things the way they were between roughly 1980 and 2016. They're the party of people who did very well for themselves during that period, and as a result they have a lot to lose. They're not going to risk all that they've gained, to fight for someone else's vision of a theoretically better society.
You do realize what the Uvalde cops are famous for right? They arrested parents that tried to get into the school to save their kids. They stopped one of their own from trying to enter the classroom to save his wife.
Democrats want to stop Trump, using a corrupt system, with one arm tied behind their backs, while using the other one to finger wag at ANYONE not following the norms that no longer exist.
Democrats want to stop Trump
Perhaps, but not enough to metaphorically go rushing into a school where there's an active shooter, putting their lives at risk.
I would put the Democrats as more of a moderate reform party. There is an attempt to make mild change, a lot of which gets undone when Republicans take power.
Half of Lemmy hates democrats more than they hate republicans. I suspects that’s why you are getting all of these downvotes for that opinion. Though I might change “moderate reform” to “extremely mild reform.”
I know that's the reason why I'm getting downvotes. Luckily, because this is Lemmy, downvotes don't really mean much.
It is just funny that you see this back and forth between how people here will never vote for Democrats yet they'll make these grand statements on how Democrats, without their support, should act.
I prefer to think of the Democrats/neoliberals as AIDS and Republicans/fascists as pneumonia. It's the pneumonia that kills you, but it's the AIDS that has to be addressed if you want to survive. Establishment Democrats sap our ability to fight off fascism, and now fascism has come for us.
It depends on if the Uvalde cops were being paid NOT to go into the school
That is the truth.
Does that make the progressives the children?
The American public are the kids
Progressives are the teachers getting shot.
Are you projecting immaturity onto progressives, SatansMaoggotyCumFart?