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The other trend I’ve noticed is that when events occur that should help support the narrative of the left (such as the awful murder of George Floyd), instead of focusing on making incremental improvements (improve training, ban chokeholds, end war on drugs), they go all in (defund the police * ).
* I know that “defund the police” doesn’t actually mean “defund the police” but maybe we should go with slogans that, and this is a tad crazy I know, don’t mean something other than what the actual goal is?
I find that the left-wing in the US in general seems too enamored with big ticket wins (see infrastructure bill, social spending bill, and voting rights bill). They completely ignore small-ball politics — appointing bureaucrats, stacking courts, procedural minutiae, local governments — unlike their conservative counterparts, who despite losing the majorities and the white house itself, have put allies so deeply into political mechanisms that they can control the tempo and timing of how things are run across the country.
Meanwhile, the State department languishes without ambassadors because the current government is too distracted trying to pass a bill doomed to fail.
Because we have somewhat arbitrarily divided a highly multi dimensional space representing voter preference in two it isn't really a straight cut so there are a lot of idealogical inconsistencies and contradictions and whatnot and since there are a lot of angles at which you can cut something into equal parts the angle of the cut can rotate quite freely in this space so the two sides rotate around in this highly multi dimensional space confusing us poor 3d creatures.
At least, that is why I think Tucker Carlson was mad about M&M's being made less sexy than they once were.
I still think though that with American politics at least, the average voter isn't ideologically dogmatic enough to be resistance to counter-points by the other side that appeal to base emotions of security and economic prosperity. Jobs and Crimes platforms are potent. The two sides aren't equally weighted. One side as an advantage that the above strategy needs to overcome in a better way than "Defund (disband) police."
>At least, that is why I think Tucker Carlson was mad about M&M's being made less sexy than they once were.
That's a very generous take on the matter . . . but I think it's more comedic to think there is something else going on lol.