Whenever “crime” comes up, the answer is usually “get tougher” more police etc. No one ever questions the approach or performance of the police.
Sometimes it feels like selective enforcement. I mean, heaven forbid we question the police and their ability to properly do their job vs just earning OT…
But why is it you see a huge police presence whenever someone protests something, yet this “lawlessness” pervades?
No. Racist too. Classist shit already existed with property taxes being linked to school district funding.
Now you can just straight opt out of going to a school with too many colored folk.
PS to add: It’s worth pointing out, that the whole mention of “choice” presupposes that no one tries to improve a school, just leave it… while republicans starve its funding… just so happens to be in a black neighborhood.
None of this is to claim that younger voters in general are not more to the left on most issues than their older counterparts. They are. But there is a difference between being more progressive than other voters — and progressive as a blanket characterization. As this data clearly shows, that characterization is not accurate...
Those stuck in “reality” are truly left to deal with the fact that indifference has more votes. Cause every election come, folks are just too happy to accept the status quo, or accept facism with a sentiment like “they probably will…”
Problem is 3.5 years of any one presidential term isn’t going to suddenly change the structural stuff. It’s unrealistic especially in the context of 8 years of bush and reagan each, plus 4 years of bush 1 AND 4 years of trump straight gassing protestors yet still potentially getting re-elected. PLUS a congress full of republicans supporting them all the way.
You will never see any structural change even remotely close to what you’re talking about, so long as people elect republicans. Even if you want to lean heavily on a single president to wave the wand, the next administration can just reverse/neuter it. Without a solid Democratic majority in congress to go along with a Democratic President you couldn’t even have the conversation.
If republicans get elected you’re going to be set back 10 more years and the conversation will be for a fraction of what could have been…
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He is so efficient, he has a guide to everything (lemmy.world)
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Pine Tree Flag (en.wikipedia.org)
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Trump lashes out after DOJ reveals classified documents were found in his bedroom (www.independent.co.uk)
Accurate (lemmy.world)
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California blew it on bail reform. Now Illinois is showing it works. (www.latimes.com)
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Of course (lemmy.world)
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