the cops are on their side, dummy.

god you’re dumb

The New Deal was nothing more than a truce between Capital and Labor. FDR didn’t do it because he was a nice guy. He did it because Labor was beginning to become powerful enough that it threatened the possibility of a left wing socialist revolution or a right wing fascist revolution, as was happening in European…

Or, we can just bellow FUCK THE POLICE and ALL PIGS ARE KLANSMEN .... and alienate all the Black officers, and all the Latino officers, and all the Asian officers, and all the Native American officers

I’m sorry that liberalism has failed to stop fascism throughout history and you’re still struggling to accept that fact.

oh so the rank and file were “just following orders” and the real racists are the senior officers? So the senior officers weren’t racist when they were rank and file, but then became racist once they were promoted. Is that the bullshit you’re trying to sell me?

yeah totally man the cops are regular working class joes just trying to feed their families https://splinternews.com/portland-police-criticized-for-charging-counterproteste-1828115880

Your idealism is part of what got us here.

Abolish all law enforcement?

Yeah, that jumped out at me too. I assume the author must be quite young; that’s the sort of take that I’d expect from someone who’s never known anything but our current political system.

Wow. Very disappointing to hear this garbage from a self-identified leftist.

H-how useful? Centrist Democrats - The DNC - are the only segment of the left that can actually win at this point. Yeah yeah, DSA this and that. Please get real. You will not use the platform the DNC built so that you can lose to Trump and his supporters. You will not have access to the funds we raise.

what if you’re actually fucking wrong? Have you considered that? No, of course you haven’t because you’re not as progressive as you claim to be. Your tendency will continue to be defeated.

I’m grown.

if you are in your 20s then the fact that you sound like an out of touch liberal baby boomer should depress the hell out of you.

Maybe do both?

Look, if we wanted a socially liberal anti labor millionaire governor... we already got one of those, that bastard Cuomo

All she has to do is get NYS and NYC police and fire unions.

The biggest problem with Democratic Socialists is branding.

but dismantle capitalism ? Good luck getting American’s to think that is ok.