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They do that because they know they can push Progressives into some very awkward positions.

They are pushing progressives into the corner. Painting them as being out of touch with the pain felt by regular folks. The pain felt by the masses and instead focus in on some teeny, tiny, exceedingly small fringe group.

And it works!

This highschool thing is just the latest issue. A couple of years ago Democrats were wasting countless hours and effort trying to help DACA people.

Literally days before that topic hit the airwaves no one had heard of DACA and then all of a sudden they see Dems trying all these things to protect them. They'd try to get them healthcare. They'd trying to get them schooling.

I'd hear rumblings at my lunchroom at work from people who would busting their ass to pay for their kids schooling and they'd hear that Dems were trying to get these non-citizen free school. When you put it that way, the general public WILL agree that Dems are out of touch with regular folks.

Then some time before DAC or after DACA was the whole crisis at the border bullshit. Again, the GOP was able to successfully paint Democrats as caring more about foreigners than for the American people. It's a bad look to have when the American people are the ones who keep you in power.

Republicans are masters at finding ways to make Democrats look bad on topics that make Dems look like they don't support middle America and it's values.

Stop the nonsense.

When a plane is losing altitude, the warning message doesn't say to help your neighbor put on a breathing mask first. No. It says to put on your OWN mask first before you can help anyone else. Dems are constantly trying to help their neighbor all while they themselves lose key support amongst the people that can keep them in power.

Not playing a sport will make them DIE???

On the flip side, some 50,000 people die in the US because they do not have health insurance, and almost a million go into bankruptcy because of medical costs and millions more are affected by obnoxious medical bills.

Have some focus, for fucks sakes.

I'm more than willing to post the unpopular opinion. I'm probably little older than the average Lemming and with that I've seen these scumbag Republicans years after year, election after election play the Left like a fiddle. They push them to react (overreact) to one pseudo emergency after another. You'd think the Dems would have learned their lesson, but that's the infuriating part - they fall for it Every. Single. Time.

Asi mentioned to someone else, when it wasn't these Trans athletes, it was the DACA kids. Then it wasn't the DACA kids, it was the crisis at the border. Before that was some other made up bullshit that affects such a miniscule percent of people. You can call me cold and uncaring, that's fine, but that's not my point. My point is that you can't help these smaller groups if you don't have enough political power. And you don't gain more political power if yiu don't help the masses. The big ticket items. The policies that give literally millions universal Healthcare, or insert some other Think Big movement. Those millions helped are the ones who might reward you with more votes and thus more power in the next election cycle. The 50 fringe people here or the 200 fringe folks there, won't. They just won't. I'm not saying to turn their backs in them, but help the masses before you look after the tiny minorities.

Lastly every time the Left jumps to action to help the endangered spotted pigeon, they are seen as being out of touch with common folk's problems. The Right is already good at fostering a "down home" image (as fake as it is), that it doesn't help when the Left willingly takes these actions to benefit the few and not the many. Food for thought: the GOP has somehow cultivated an image of Teump that resonates with coal miners, and construction workers, and hunters, and other pickup driving blue collar jobs in small town America. This is a man who is (arguably) a billionaire,who wears exceedingly expensive suits, shits in a gold toilet and is from deep Blue NYC one of the biggest cities in the entire world. Stop feeding into the notion that Democrats are ivory tower elitists who only care about obscure shit and have turned their back on average Joe's.

I've said enough. Commence the downvotes!