I can think of literally ONE Democrat who ran on "defund the police". He won his election for City Controller of Los Angeles in a landslide (61% to 39%).
Mejia received more votes than any LA citywide candidate in history including Karen Bass and all previous mayors.
Mejia received more votes than any LA citywide candidate in history including Karen Bass and all previous mayors.
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Derek Ohlms
"Defund the Police" didn't need anyone else to recast it. It was a profoundly stupid slogan from inception.
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hard to tell from your post, but one race is just one race, right ?
all I know is that after BLM/ G Floyd, here in MA, a somewhat blue state, the state legislature took up a police reform bill
and it is, depending on your view, weak sauce or moderate, but even in MA there was zero appetite for anything close to defund
& IIRC
How much appetite do you think there is, today, for eliminating social security?
Just get in power and do it. Like you say you're going to, but never do.
https://archive.org/details/recollectionsofn0000elio
The author recounts how the racist neanderthal southern democrats **Hated the idea of social security and only voted for it because they
A president can't lead where the people won't follow
iirc, the Mass legislature was considering abolishing QI, a great thing
someone organized the wives of LEOs to call the legislature, sobbing about how they would loose their homes cause of lawsuits
“stop police waste” seems like a far better thing to say than “defund the police”
https://www.npr.org/2021/11/02/1051617581/minneapolis-police-vote
I realized just this morning:
Cryptofascists fear us feeling free to do better or to change our stars.
That's why they push so hard against "foreign" religion, against transsexuals, and against funny hair colors. The point is to tell us that we cannot deviate, cannot be free.
If one can appeal to chronology (physics, relativity) then the state monopoly on violence doesn’t have total control over truth and thought.
Just showing the disproportionate spending and how damn much police funding takes away from literally everything else.
It wakes a lot of people up
Reallocate funds to where they can work; defund the trigger-happy ticket-writers.
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/retail-theft-in-us-cities-separating-fact-from-fiction/
Like.
that it was fear whipped up over something that wasn't happening any more than usual?