2020 Election

[Dill]

(07-30-2020, 12:29 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: This post in honestly fascinating for being exactly what it is attempting to describe.  A much better case could be made that the far left has infiltrated the moderate left.  "Trumpism", a few people aside, ends the moment Trump is out of office.  The far left has deeply enmeshed themselves in the Democratic party and they have no focal point, no single driving person, they are here to stay.  Their proposals are far more radical than anything Trump has done or even proposed.  Seattle just cut their police budget by 50%.  When told that this would mean a large percentage of non-white officers would be laid off a city council member suggested changing the MOU and contract with the police to allow laying off only white officers.  The California state assembly recently proposed that 90% of the money allocated for juvenile probation go directly to community based organizations instead.  One could go on and on, but for the sake of brevity, I'll leave it at that.

It is completely fair to have major issues with Trump.  It is completely untrue to say that a Democratic led country is the better choice without any room for doubt or dissent.

The broken judgment which put Trump in office was developed over two decades and won't end when he leaves.

People at one location, Seattle, are trying out some "radical" proposals that we won't find on the Dem platform at the convention. "One council member suggested" is not evidence of any sea change in the national party, especially if no one takes the suggestion. And I don't find cutting police budgets "more radical" than sending federal officers into cities against the wishes of local government, or using the military against peaceful protestors.

Until that "one council member" becomes president of the United States, then one certainly cannot make "a much better case" that some "far left" has infiltrated a moderate left with consequences for a national party, as once can make the case that the fringe right has "enmeshed" itself with the Republican party and produced a president and control of the Senate.

As I read your CA assembly proposal, it is that 95% of funds allocated for newly proposed juvenile assessment programs must go to "community-based organizations AND OTHER public agencies and departments that are not law enforcement." It does not refer to all money allocated for juvenile probation.