Heroes?

 This is how Dictionary.com defines the word "hero".

The people who typically are admired as heroes are the soldiers who storm the beach, the firefighter who braves the blaze to save a child trapped by the flames or the good samaritan who stops what they are doing to help an accident victim.

They put a higher purpose above themselves. They model how the rest of us should live life the right way.

You also have those people who are looked up to as heroes because of the courage and grace they have displayed in overcoming significant personal tragedies or challenges.

President Trump honored some of these heroes at the speech he gave to a Joint Session of Congress last month.

They included a 13-year old boy who had survived brain cancer and dreamed of becoming a Secret Service agent, the wife of  a New York police officer who had been murdered in the line of duty and the mother of a young woman who had been killed by an illegal immigrant.

Most Democrats in the chamber that night would not rise to honor these heroes or even provide lukewarm applause.

Source: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/california-dem-says-flight-attendant-told-him-party-looked-heartless-not-standing-boy-cancer

However, Democrats recently have shown a proclivity to make heroes out of those which should register close to ZERO on the hero meter.

Think back to the way the Democrats lionized George Floyd in 2020.

Yes, the death of Floyd was a tragedy.

However, what did Floyd do to merit hero status?

Floyd had been arrested at least 10 times for various crimes during his life including drug-related charges, theft and aggravated robbery with a deadly weapon for which he received a 5-year prison sentence.

His autopsy showed he had fentanyl, methamphetamine and cannabis in his system at the time of his arrest for allegedly attempting to pass a counterfeit $20 bill to a local merchant.

George Floyd should not have died in police custody.

However, what did he do to be a hero other than to advance a liberal political narrative that the police should be defunded?

We see the same things playing out in the news today in which Democrats are trying to elevate people to hero status who are anything but.

Consider the amount of Democrat and media attention to the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the illegal immigrant who had lived in Maryland for 13 years, who was deported by ICE and is now jailed in his home country of El Salvador.

The Democrats have made Abrego Garcia a cause celebre after a leftist judge ordered he be returned to the United States.

However, that decision apparently is now up to El Salvador since he is a citizen of that country. 

For context, ask yourself if a U.S. citizen had defected to Russia and after ten years Russia decided he was a bad actor and deported him back to the United States, would the United States believe it had a duty to return him to Russia? 

Senator Chris Van Hollen went to El Salvador to attempt to get Abrego Garcia returned to the United States.

Congresswoman Maxine Decker (D-OR) has also traveled to El Salvador and stated she will not leave until Abrego Garcia returns to the United States.

Who is this hero?

Abrego Garcia entered the United States illegally in 2012.

Two courts later entered a finding that he was a member of the notorious MS-13 gang.

A court ruled he should be deported years ago. Abrego Garcia has already had many days in court.

Removal was put on hold as Abrego Garcia claimed that he would be targeted in El Salvador by a rival gang (the 18th Street Gang). That gang has subsequently been disbanded due to the get tough policies of the current President of El Salvador Nayib Bukele.

Abrego Garcia was stopped in Tennessee in 2022 for speeding where it was discovered he was transporting eight individuals from Texas to Maryland that had all the earmarks of a human trafficking operation.

In 2021 Abrego Garcia's wife filed for a protective order against him after he hit her at least two times in the previous several months.

It is disputed whether Abrego Garcia should have been deported to El Salvador due to his claims about possible persecution of a rival gang.

However, there is no dispute that he is in the United Stated unlawfully. This has already been adjudicated in a court of law which ruled that he can be removed.

If not El Salvador would he be better served by being deported to Somalia, South Sudan or Sweden if they would take him?

Is this a hero or is it just another case of using a man as a political prop?

Maxine Dexter makes an excellent case that it is the latter.

She is going to ignore all the other needs of representing her constituents over an illegal alien gang member who beat his wife?

We also have the recent case of Karmelo Anthony, an African American teenager who killed an 18 year white high school, after a dispute about seating arrangements at a school track meet.

Anthony did not like being asked to change seats and in response pulled out a knife and stabbed Austin Metcalf to death.

Anthony has subsequently  raised over $500,000 on the fundraising site GiveSendGo.

His victim has raised a mere $25 in donations to assist in the costs of his burial.

Is there something off here?

Source: https://www.givesendgo.com/search/karmelo

Anthony was released by a liberal judge who only required he post a $250,000 bond and is under house arrest wearing an ankle monitor.

It seems his family wants to make sure he is comfortable as they have just started renting a $900,000 house and are now reportedly driving a new Cadillac Escalade since the $500,000 came in.

Senator Ted Cruz asks the obvious question.

Is Karmelo Anthony a hero?

What would the reaction have been in this case if Austin Metcalf had pulled out a knife and stabbed Karmelo Anthony?

Would he be considered a hero?

How much would have been contributed to his "defense" fund?

Why do Democrats persist in making heroes out of people who register next to zero on any rational scale of hero status?

It is beyond my comprehension.

Is there anything that Democrats do today that is not totally dictated by politics to the exclusion of rational thinking, common sense and basic values?

Looking at who they promote as heroes should be enough to answer that question.