... because it was so obviously going to be purposely misconstrued on the right to mean "stop funding."
But if we suddenly start calling it something else more appropriate, the right will be all: "See? They had to rename their efforts to hide what they're doing! Make no mistake, they want to abolish cops!!1!!!"
Think how "global warming" became, more accurately, "climate change." Many on the right still think the term was changed because they "proved" the globe wasn't REALLY warming because winter still exists -- thus forcing libruls to come up with some new strategy to brainwash America's kidz into planting trees and to steal all the lucrative research grants or whatever.
When the left comes up with the shorthand names for its proposals, they seriously SERIOUSLY need to consider how the words are going to be interpreted by Joe Sixpack who's not a policy wonk and is not paying a lot of attention to politics, but *is* likely to be targeted for brainwashing by rightwing media.
Make Republicans have to try to explain their opposition to Democratic policies and proposals instead of making it so all they have to do is point at the name and scare people with an easy lie.
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