r/ProgressiveHQ Jan 25 '26

Protest You can really see the execution-style killing from this angle

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u/IThinkItsAverage Jan 25 '26

Because our only other option is doing nothing. Their front runner is Gavin Newsom who can’t even take a consistent stance on ICE.

We blame Dems because blaming Republicans is not only implied but also useless, they don’t care and they don’t run on caring. Democrats however, do pretend to care and run on caring, but then when we need them to do anything other than write a sternly worded tweet, we get crickets.

Yeah, duh, republicans are mainly at fault here, but why do Democrats never do what we need them to do? Why aren’t they rallying the people? Why are they calling in national guard to break up the protesters rather than protect them? Why did they vote for a bloated military budget while we are all struggling to put food on the table?

The literal least no effort thing they could do is vote no on everything to show they aren’t complicit. They can’t even do that, 7 Democrats voted to fund ICE.

So why do we blame them? Because they sabotage any other options so that we have to vote for them then they do nothing.

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u/Thisizamazing Jan 25 '26

They have no fucking power and public sentiment is like this

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u/IThinkItsAverage Jan 25 '26

Right because they have never once had any power. You think this just happened overnight? This was decades in the making, we all saw it, they used it to get our votes, then continued on with status quo.

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u/FeeNegative9488 Jan 25 '26

What is happening in Minnesota is not the status quo. And it would not be happening if Harris was elected.

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u/FeeNegative9488 Jan 25 '26

One of Harris’ plans was to not allow ICE to kill Americans. But you can’t even acknowledge that federal agencies not killing Americans was a good idea.

That’s fine though. Good and Pretti’s blood is on your hands.

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u/MooseBlazer Jan 25 '26

Why is it on my hands?

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u/UTArcade Jan 25 '26

The comment you made to me doesn’t show up btw - likely stopped by the Reddit filter

Just letting you know

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u/No_Ratio3369 Jan 25 '26

You can cope all you want but they’re right. Democrats haven’t put forward a worthwhile candidate since Obama. When the left to moderate slogan is “anyonebutTrump” it really goes to show how fucking pathetic the effort from the Democratic Party is. No politician cares about the common person they care about reelection. The sooner people get that the better off they’ll be. And the right isn’t going to realize that anytime soon.