.Character? They have no character. Hate dissolves character, and the rat party is the party of hate.
Normally for most of humanity, any personal grief or woe is about 95% self-induced, by either denial or willful ignorance and refusal to consider any other viewpoint beyond the self or whatever small echo chamber they confine themselves to. Only about 5% could be attributed to external events.
For the current crop of democrat socialists who pretend to be the voice of the Democrat party, they go for the whole 100% of self-induced grief and woe.