Imagine the kind of political will it would take to dismantle the Pentagon and put that money into national health care. Sounds hard, right? That& #39;s #DefundThePolice basically.
Except we& #39;re trying to do it in every city at once where in most cases the politics is dominated by some vestigial Dem Party machine powered by a corrupt stew of real estate money, bail bondsmen, and whatever the dominant local exploitative industry is. (In our case tourism)
That& #39;s a lot of entrenched power and money with a keen interest in maintaining a heavily armed and manned police force.
So just.. it might feel like there is momentum right now but there is a long way to go and the fundamentals pretty much dictate nobody with any power will help
What I& #39;m saying is on order to defund the police you also have to flip a majority of every city council, defeat every mayor, probably a few meddling governors as well. Also for it to be a meaningful or sustainable change you would have to abolish capitalism.
So, I mean, I& #39;m definitely for it but also that& #39;s a tall order
Anyway the point of this thread was to say that the particular brand of Democrat currently holding office in every city is capable only of doing this https://twitter.com/BreeNewsome/status/1269678831687827456?s=19">https://twitter.com/BreeNewso...
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