The Democrats are losers. They lose because they cave to public opinion. The Democratic party is the SW: ROTS party. Do you see the GOP giving a shit about public opinion? No, because they MAKE the public opinion.
The GOP do give a shit about public opinion since they live in fear of getting primaries from the right. They make public opinion because they spent decades building a support and propaganda network on a massive scale the Dems can't match and it'd take years for them to make a dent if they started building it right now. Fox News is a powerful device, and that's the tip of the iceberg with how entrenched they are in culture. They're in churches, in You Tube accounts, police forces, court rooms and more. There is nothing remotely like that which exists inside or outside the party on the left. That's a great advantage in winning elections and shaping public opinion. They did such a good job of this the Frankenstein's monster turned and them and got Trump into the White House.
Do you honestly think that if the Democratic party took a stand on not funding ICE and the internment camps for children that it'd hurt them in the election? Of course not. Everyone would have forgotten about it by the time voting came around.
Yes. Sadly, in America this is a dangerous position for many politicians to take, despite it being something I wish they would do more openly. Do I don't like this but I understand why some do it. They're constantly on the knife edge in congress, fighting both within their party and outside it against conservative forces to keep the country together. It'd be worse without them there.
Of course, we don't actually know if the public would "punish the Democrats" because they've never fucking tried to bend the rules. They SHOULD be Judge Dredd on issues like internment camps. IT'S FUCKING NAZI SHIT. If your case to me is that we have to allow Nazi shit to happen in this country because the GOP won the election and the Democrats can't do anything too crazy, well... maybe that's why people don't like the Democrats. Maybe that's why I call them cowards. They're so afraid of losing what little power they have that they refuse to stand up to tyranny. They refuse to stand up for the women being starved, harrassed, beaten, and sexually assaulted in ICE detention. They refuse to stand up for the toddlers being torn away from their mothers to live in some re-purposed walmart with little to no watchdog supervision.
We saw the results of this in 2016 and 2019 with elections, the majority of those politicians lost to moderates. 8 people survived. 8. Being Judge Dredd is not applicable to the Dems due to how the system is made and the fact their own constituencies aren't made up of people who agree with that mindset. Nobody wants Nazi shit in America but nobody has found a solution to fight against them properly within the system or outside it. I wish they would.
America's not the only county with issues of far right extremists. What you're missing is what happens afterward - what happens when the Dems lose the power they have against tyranny? What are they supposed to do inside or outside the system?
We've seen the horrific downside to losing on a tremendous scale in the UK, I don't want that repeated in America.
Many Dems have visited ICE detention facilities, they haven't ignored them. They just think the best way to stop this is is with elections since they don't have the authority within the government. Voters never gave them it. A majority in congress would be very useful right now. The Dems have many politician working against ICE in their ranks, building momentum.
They have been trying but it's not as simple as you think. Extralegal avenues are of course not an option for them, and it's not like the left is doing that for obvious reasons.
Something missing from this discussion is the leftist alternative. Why do you think they'll do any better then the Dems? Without the Dems they're supposed to be the ones which pick up the fight in politics but right now they have less impact in congress than the moderates do.
They approve military budget increases to sell more weapons to people who kill children. People who inflict genocide. Although selling weapons to foreign countries is part of their platform so I guess that's somewhat irrelevant to the conversation.
There's a lot more to the military than that, and this ignores the possible blowback from the public with politicians who would do this. Not everyone is safe from the consequences like Bernie is, then we have less politicians to block the Republicans in congress. Not because they don't want to but because doing that is much harder then you think. Very few politicians are going to burn their careers over bills, regardless of how they want to stop injustice.
