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In reply to the discussion: Worst slogan ever - "Defund the Police" [View all]Grokenstein
(5,722 posts)"Defund," "reinvent," "change"--these are words that terrify a populace that has been bottle-fed fear from birth by FOXHenhouse and Rush Limpballs and the rest of the rightwank media. What you need, what will succeed, is a simple positive mission statement, not some wish to vaguely recreate something half the nation still believes isn't broken into the Workers' Paradise. Otherwise, the fearmongers will gin up a pushback that will only make things worse.
Mobster goons--and let's not be coy, cops today are a covert organized-crime set-up--exist to defend a system of corruption. That's what you want to change; everything else follows. The police unions have to be busted for the rackets they are, and the public needs to have a say in their future leadership, because the police must serve the public. Pigs who pose a threat to the public need to jailed or fired and banned from public service in all fifty states, because the police must serve the public. The police cannot have at-whim access to military gear because the police must serve the public.