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The Republicans are a mass shooter massacring children inside a school
The Democrats are the Uvalde police department
They're just standing around holding their dicks LETTING it happen completely unopposed.
What do you propose they do?
More than hold ping pong paddles with the word false written on them. With the exception of a select few, they're all basically wet blankets. Let's see some civil disobedience, let's see someone getting arrested for standing up for what's right? Best they can do is ping pong paddles?
I would argue that's the responsibility of the people and not a political party
No, that's what parties are for. Legislation is the job of the government.
It's true that politicians don't usually lead, they look to the voting base to see what they can do. I think the issue right now is that there isn't (yet) a unifying leader that can mobilize a big enough population of people to make it impossible for the media to ignore. while I think smaller protests have their place they are useless if they don't move to something bigger. And something bigger - that being millions of people filling the streets of multiple cities - won't happen without a big charismatic leader like Martin Luther King, jr.
Yet the middle of the road, center right democrats that hold power see this as a challenge to their control. They only have to look to how the GOP was hollowed out by a big charismatic leader in trump. The more "moderate" republicans lost control to the more extreme right - the moderate democrats don't want that and will do what they can to hold down that yet unknown person from gaining a voice for the left.