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In reply to the discussion: Democrats have only themselves to blame if they lose to "defund the police" [View all]stopdiggin
(11,503 posts)(along with being pretty darned stupid to start out with)
And, because it was so incredibly unpopular, it forced the party, and candidates, to run around it -- and deflect. The reason it was so stupid and unpopular? - Is because a vast majority of American voters see a cut in funding to their local police department -- as about the most asinine, brain dead proposition they've heard in a long time!
And, as much as many of those same Americans found sympathy and support for BLM -- they also thought the 'defund' business was some seriously stupid sh*t. So, yeah -- I don't really have any problem laying the blame for "some seriously stupid sh*t" where it belongs -- no matter what the origin. Don't like the criticism? Come up with some smarter sh*t.
(Oh -- and relitigating this tired "loser" idea over and over ad nauseam -- like spoiled children going to another parent for different answer -- is never going to turn it into a winner.)