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In reply to the discussion: Democratic Whip James Clyburn: 'Defund the police' cost Democrats seats [View all]LetMyPeopleVote
(146,816 posts)What you are stating is that the squad had the power to force all Democratic candidates including the intelligent candidates into supporting the moronic "defund the police" policy and that they have to try to defend this ignorant policy using the weak talking point set forth above. We lost a ton of races that we should had won
If we want the Democratic Party and its intelligent candidates to win, we do need better messaging and that messaging should not mean that a small segment of the party which has zero legislative accomplishments can force the rest of the party to support a stupid policy that is guaranteed to cause them to lose races that could win. In my world we want to win races and not to lose races because a small segment likes a policy that is stupid
Next cycle the party will need better messaging and that messaging should be that the party does not believe in socialism and defund the police. I do not care if this hurts the feelings of the Squad
Again, I ask the question of why is this stupid policy so important that you are willing to make McCarthy or TFG speaker of the House? Why is it okay for your fellow posters to take the position that any real Democratic candidate who loses due to this ignorant policy is a bad person and deserved to lose.
BTW, this is not an academic exercise for me. I am active with Texas Party and we are looking at why so many Hispanic voters went for TFG last cycle. TFG had a ton of support in the Rio Grande Valley last cycle and the state party has been polling to find out what happen. The Hispanic vote is not a monolith there are a good number of Hispanic voters who hate socialism and support the police. Guess what, socialism and radical concepts like Defund the Police alienated these voters. One set of polls confirmed that socialism is a big negative for Texas hispanic voters and I have seen similar polling as to Florida Hispanic voters. We had a party function this week and I understand that more polling will be done on police/law enforcement before the 2022 elections. It was discussed that two GOP Texas PACs were very active on using Defund the Police ads and that they PACS will be active in 2022.
I do not understand how a small segment of the party which has no legislative accomplishments get to tell the rest of the party that we have to use stupid slogans that will cost us elections. I am sure that the Texas Party will be taking some strong positions before 2022 on stupid concepts like defund the police. We were nine state house seats away from flipping control of the Texas house and avoiding issues like permitless gun carry and the voter suppression law. I am not in favor of going into 2022 and seeing candidates lose due to moronic slogans like defund the police.