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In reply to the discussion: CNN: Obama cautions activists against using 'defund the police' slogan [View all]brush
(53,764 posts)out of way more voters than voters who favor it. I'm a progressive and a black male and even I know we need police...and police accountability.
Bowman and the others pitching "defund the police" are well-meaning but naive as hell. They need to take Messaging 101 and learn that when you have to explain your messaging, when you have to tell people what it really means, you're losing because "defund the police", just from face value of what it says is, no money for police and that equals no police.
Ya can't get a dumber bit of messaging than that. That's a slam dunk negative ad for repugs. It says don't even call 911, you're on your own because the police have been defunded. We gave them an early Christmas gift with that foolishness and they used it to take back several House seats in red districts we turned blue with the blue wave in 2018.
We've got to get smarter. And the nubie representatives do too.