Political Memes

What does blame have to do with it? Everything. That is the entire problem with cops, they get away with literally everything

Well . . . I don’t disagree, but I still don’t know what cops have to do with the metaphor. There’s no cops in the metaphor.

The left being progressives -- democratic socialists and socialists

Okay, so no anarchists, communists, or - other - just the Democratic socialists and socialists. I’m assuming you mean voters, non-office-holders and not national party leaders specifically?

Democrats as in neoliberal leadership such as Schumer, Jeffries, Durbin, Biden, Obama... etc.

Well, okay ‘leadership’ is good there, but the etc. kinda defeats the purpose of defining that, so - all ‘neoliberal leadership’ ever, say?

Also can you define neoliberal leadership? Like neoliberal for one, but for two is that officeholding leadership at all levels; federal, state, local, or just federal?

Defended as in standing behind them when they're blamed for nonsense or scapegoated as anti-American.

“Standing behind them” as in literally like in a press conference, or do prior established positions count as “standing behind them”? Are you saying there should be a public statement like a press release or do you mean some equivalent amount of press coverage?

“blamed for nonsense”, I think you know I need that specified because - it’s very broad. “Scapegoated” is even trickier because are you talking about Fox News reporting or something more all-outlets-reporting? “Anti-American”, as well - you mean literally the phrase “anti-American”? Or something else?

Ilhan Omar comes to mind. Did any Democrat defend her when she was being called a terrorist because she's a first-generation Muslim refugee with criticism of American capitalism?

Okay, good that’s a better example. Except Ilhan Omar is a Democratic leader, which doesn’t match the “left being Democratic socialists and socialists”. Unless Democratic party leaders can be “Democratic socialists and socialists.” I mean, if they can, then it’s a whole other question isn’t it. It’d be more like ‘Why don’t Democrats support Democrats’, right?

Perhaps while we're explaining obvious meanings

“Obvious meanings” don’t scale well enough. That’s why science spends so much time defining things. Political science, in this case.

. . . you can explain why the cops, who were not blamed for shooting a reporter live on camera because the cops have too much power over media

Okay, again, cops have nothing to do with this discussion. Just - forget the cops for a second. In the picture, the figure marked “Leftists” is shooting the figure marked “Democrats”. Shooting with a non-lethal round. Something deliberate. Something stupid. And something which is designed to hurt the “Democrats” but won’t kill them.

Something like refusing to support them when they’re the only option against chaos and cruelty. Which was last November. That’s the metaphor. And here come the Midterms.