Hillary Clinton has stood up and done what many Progressives at DailyKos lack the courage and humanity to do: she’s called for an immediate reinstatement of the assault weapons ban.
As someone with a fair number of Recommended articles in the past few weeks, I tried to give DailyKos several opportunities to get out in front on calling for an assault weapons ban yesterday but there was little to no interest, with the vast majority of commenters saying that no, they didn't want such a thing.
I’m glad to now see the top recommended diary is honoring Hillary’s call for common sense, but the fact that she had to show DailyKos how it's done speaks volumes about her progressive credentials compared to the people that lead and populate this website.
From my standpoint, nobody at DailyKos gets to claim they're more progressive than Hillary Clinton after this display. You either lead on the issue of gun bans or you forfeit your moral authority.
The people on this website failed to lead. Fortunately Hillary Clinton stepped in to show how a progressive does it. If that shames you, good. It should. If you disagree, too bad. DailyKos had its chance to do what needs to be done and failed the test of leadership on guns in America. And that's why we have people like Hillary Clinton, to show the lot of you how it's done.
And right on time, I now see a 2nd DK article following Hillary’s lead up the recommended list.
Progressives like us can't afford being followers on issues like this. If we are, then we've failed in the only purpose we have as bloggers and political activists.
None of you wrote a Recommended article calling for an assault weapons ban after this latest shooting. We had to wait for Hillary Clinton to lead. Shame on all of you.