Too accurate

Democrats are the party of controlled opposition. Do you hate Republicans and want a reasonable chance for the opposition to win? Vote Democrat! What's that, you want progressive policies like parental tax credits, universal health care, or regulated housing prices? Tough shit, our corporate overlords say no. Vote for us anyway though to keep a stagnant government or else watch Republicans bring a sledgehammer to its foundations! The DNC desperately needs an overhaul in its leadership.

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.
  
  Well fuckin said! That is exactly right!
  
  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.
- Isn't the 1980s mostly Reagan whom we and democrats alike quite hated for nearly everything?
  
  The Democrats didn't hate Reagan enough to not continue with his neoliberal policies once they got back into office in 1992. In fact, the neoliberal era really started in the late 70s when the Democrat Jimmy Carter was in office.
- 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 think that's a perfect analogy.

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.

I'd like to see Democrats doing a whole fuck more, but this is a shit analogy.

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?