Would tend to agree, *EXCEPT* that prior to this slogan, police reform *always* meant more money for police education. Only after this slogan, did people talk about serious police reforms, like who responds to what kinds of calls to 911.
And I get the harm this does. Really though, it underscores the precarious nature of our current Dem majority:
If we push too hard for progress we could lose the middle, and if we don't push hard enough we could lose the far left.
And all this is happening with democracy hanging by a thread. If we piss off too many dems, far left or centrist, we're screwed.
This is in part because many people remain in denial about democracy hanging from a thread.
And the people in denial are not all just sleep centrists. Plenty of far left people are in denial, because they think this "democracy nonsense" is just a way to slow progress.
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It's stunning really. On October 1 2018, Trump basically says in public that he's blackmailing a Democratic Senator. And on October 5th and 6th Manchin is the sole Democrat who votes with Republicans to end debate, and to confirm Kavanaugh.
Manchin would go on to vote to confirm Barr, and now states clearly that he will neither end the filibuster, and will even block the For The People Act if it comes to a vote.
But sure lets spend all of our time and political will trying to convince him to switch his vote.
My default assumption for both Manchin and Sinema is that they are compromised by some right wing entity, and therefore will not yield on core Trump issues no matter what.
They're going to act exactly like Graham, Nunes, Cruz, Jordan, etc., until our democracy is dead.
If you are willing to entertain the possibility or likelihood that some members of Congress are compromised, then the surprising part here isn't that they got to a couple of Democrats too. The surprising part is that anyone ever thought Democrats would be immune.
Sinema and Manchin both broke party lines to confirm Barr, too. There's no common thread of issues or policy between that vote and this one.
Except that they're both the highest priority votes for Trump in terms of keeping him out of prison.
Hey @nytimes this is a lie. And I say this because I don't think it's a mistake. I think you knew full well that this had been previously reported by @forensicnewsnet.