They have to invent shit about "electability" and "polling well" because if they just said they were opposed to the policies we support, they couldn't pretend to be allied with us or pretend we should listen to them for how to best achieve our goals.
One of the great unspoken assumptions in American politics among the media and even the Democratic Party brain trust (such as it is) is that the Republican outlook on the world is fundamentally correct and their job is to figure out how not to *pointlessly* be cruel and stupid about it
"How can we enact the Republican vision we believe is fundamentally correct with policy and messaging that allows us to treat it as a necessary shame rather than something to revel in?" is, I think, an essential element to elite-media and elite-Democrat thinking.
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Hahaha holy fuck Michael J. Stern blocked me for that one. I take that to mean he got his whole deal clocked and did not like it
That’s when he blocked me too but that’s fine I can still post his evil shit for people to see on here without the displeasure of interacting with him
What a fucking tool
Could you help with a share please 😭
they want Republican ism but they don’t want their lbgt kids and kids’ friends to get bullied in school and they don’t like overtly stated racism
(I don’t want those kids to be bullied either but I don’t want Dem party to stop with the most basic front-facing politeness)
Or even understand what the "defund the police" movement is actually about. While I agree that this policy should have been called something else, it's really a call for putting money into communities in different ways so the police become less necessary and to stop militarizing them.
This type if this king is so fucking stupid. You think it should be called something else because you're a coward with no spine.
Yes, I think what we call things matter. The conclusions you draw here are ridiculous and demonstrates you aren't actually a serious person, just somebody who likes to whine about things. Stick to baking.
Baking is a lot less embarrassing than publicly going to bar for cops. Trick-ass mark.
the “defund the police” slogan was really alienating to me, and I did understand what the actual call was. In retrospect, it was fine. Look what ice is doing now. That shit definitely needs literal defunding.
At least you admit to being a complete mark for racist idiots.
Not at all. It was a stupid slogan.
Fair. But, there is a difference between knowing what something actually means and having genuine disagreements with it, than there is, intentionally using the term in a disingenuous way to convince people that the left is wacko. We have to accept that funding cops isn't the only way to fight crime
Oh definitely agreed. Like funding good schools & encouraging good employers to hire.