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In reply to the discussion: Yo, brother Carville? Ain't no such thing as "too woke." [View all]LetMyPeopleVote
(146,978 posts)Have you ever actually worked on a real campaign? I have in a red state. Texas Democrats went from having 49 state house seats (out a total of 150 seats) after 2010 elections to only needing 9 additional seats to get control of the Texas House. Control of the Texas House would cut off the voter suppression law being considered and give the Texas Democratic party a vote in redistricting. I had two friends run for Texas state house seats and the GOP ran ads that used "defund the police" and socialism to great effect. One of the assholes who beat a friend is a child abuser and slum lord who fled to Orlando during the freeze. This asshole ran ads using socialism and defund the police and defeated a friend
I support police reform but I also live and work in the real world. Right now, we are organizing to fight the upcoming voter suppression laws by among other things forming a statewide organization of Democratic Lawyers. Things would have been a great deal easier if we had won these state house seats. Now, we are gearing up to defend my local district attorney who is up for re-election (I was part of the group that helped get Soros to help elect this man). My friend who is up for re-election in 2022 is going to be attacked because he in effect decriminalized pot in our county by refusing to test small amounts of pot to prove that this is not hemp. The local repugs are going to be attacking him as being soft on crime and it will take some work to defend this seat.
I live in the real world in a red state and I have seen exactly what happens with idiots use stupid slogans like "defund the police" in the real world. The claim that my friends who ran in 2020 and lost due to Defund the Police GOP ads is really offensive to me and totally wrong. These candidates did not deserve to lose and did not run bad campaigns. I will be happy to tell my friends who lost that they deserved to lose because posters from deep blue states believe that they ran bad campaigns.
Again, I live in the real world. Your claims that candidates who lost due to Defund the Police are bad democrats and bad candidates is simply wrong and offensive