Why have Democrats gotten so bad on civil liberties?

[Bandit3 the Worker]

I know they got pretty bad on economics, and I know a lot of them began supporting needless wars. But how and why have the Democrats become so bad on civil liberties, especially regarding covid?

I know the Republicans are guilty of this too, but I and many other folks thought that if there was a major crisis during the Trump years, the Trump administration would stand alone in its extreme violations of basic civil liberties. Man, were we ever wrong!

In some countries (maybe a vast majority), the more left-leaning parties are more lenient regarding covid than the more right-leaning parties. Sweden is an example. But I'd say the Democrats certainly are not left-leaning at this point.

Is it just because bigger states are more likely to have Democratic governors now, and more urban areas are a little more wary of contagious diseases? I'm near a big city, but in some ways I'm more rural-oriented, and I never worry anymore about covid from an epidemiological standpoint.

What issues remain that the Democrats haven't gotten bad on?

[Bandit3 the Worker]

Maybe because Democrats regard living as a civil liberty.

Then why are so many people dead?

[Bandit3 the Worker]

What about our right to not see our social institutions destroyed just because we wanted to copy a communist country's pandemic response?

[Bandit3 the Worker]

Also, what ever happened to "flatten the curve"? We've done that.

[Bandit3 the Worker]

"In some countries (maybe a vast majority), the more left-leaning parties are more lenient regarding covid than the more right-leaning parties. " This is absolutely not true, Sweden is the outlier there-not America.

Nicaragua is pretty lenient, and it has one of the more left-leaning governments out there.

Someone on another board said British Columbia under the NDP is much more lenient than Ontario under the Conservatives.

[Bandit3 the Worker]

The Democrats used to be good on civil liberties?

When I first started voting, they were much better than they are now.