it really fucking sucks that Gavin Newsom has decided that he's going to "be tough on crime" it's like a bad replay of when Harris said she "would be tougher on immigration" how many elections do we have to lose before Democrats learn that they shouldn't let the GOP control the narrative?
Can we come up with other meaningless fear-mongering rhetoric for them that would involve doing something good? I wish public health stuff worked! But if fear is in the mix…it appears the main fear rhetoric has to involve harming someone else. So…SPACE INVASION? We need health to fight the aliens!
some sort of Watchmen interdimensional squid scenario that results in universal healthcare and housing would be cool
We need some kind of rival planet we have to beat in life expectancy and equality—a rival planet Egaligtaria to threaten and ridicule us for how crappily and unjustly we arrange things and then offer to take truly egalitarian people to their planet where everything is MUCH NICER.
i think they do it just bc they want to
California has the 2nd largest prison population in the US the facilities are overcrowded and literally falling apart massive sums of money are spent to keep them running and deal with the increasing legal liabilities we have done the "tough on crime" thing, it didn't work