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+1. Police everywhere have pulled back from doing their jobs bc they don't like being criticized. I'm not sure how to fix it.

I think some more sanctimonious chanting of defund the police would help. Calling them racist is a terrific morale booster, too. I’m sure everyone will be clamoring to be a police officer momentarily.[/quote]

The way to fix it---is---like most intractable issues in the US---going to need people to agree to compromise.  What was going to happen to crime and lack of policing was completely predictable based upon the enormous vilification of police officers in 2020.  Everyone posting about how that poor teacher at JR shouldn't have to endure epithets and abuse from students should stop and consider what the average police officer encounters day in/day out and maybe not make gross generalizations demonizing the people we depend upon to keep order.    At the same time, police unions need to be a lot quicker to toss out bad apples.

You know, actually have some nuance and compromise in public policy discussions?  Neither the progressive left nor the radical right have any talent or inclination to engage in that way and it is harming us all.[/quote]

Well generally speaking, sure I agree with this.

But over the past 5 years, I would say that there is a different problem that needs to be fixed first and only then can we move on to compromise.

problem 1 - There are hoards of liberal progressives that need to accept and admit that they allowed the media to take over and control their ideas and perceptions and they stopped critically examining what the media was feeding them.  They went by screaming headlines and they believed every single "professional" trotted out even if they were not in fact professionals. These people - many of them posting here on the daily - were really just the same as the Q anon people they criticized but at the other end of the spectrum. Just like those Q people, they got caught up and enjoyed the argument, it was fun to see the next screaming headline, the next tweet.

Maybe it's because I have spent my whole live living in the DC area but I take all political mudslinging with a grain of salt. I no longer absolutely believe anything about politics. I have seen far too many times things that seem outrageous turn out years later to be true. So now I fall in the middle and think might be true, might not. There is no one involved in politics above corruption. And even if you don't see it, no one ever reports it, and the person seems to be the greatest, rest assured, it's happening. 99% of the time it will never effect the average citizens daily life too much which is the good thing.

problem 2 - utopia policies

The problem with the policies that SF tried like so many other liberal policies is the outcome is utopia which can never be achieved when you add in real people in the real world.  Programs that address poverty, education, health - billions of dollars have been poured into them over many years but very few have ever produced results. Heck even Head Start isn't really helpful. The past 20 years have brought an explosion of technology growth that was not experienced ever. The speed of change and the rapid rise of technology made obsolete many employment sectors at one time in a very short span of time.  Even more jobs could and will eventually be eliminated.  But 20 years isn't even long enough for one generation to have come and gone. So programs are going to be needed to prop up the current generation and the next to just give them the basics. And yes the dreaded "personal responsibility" is going to have be considered because as technology becomes even more pervasive more, more responsibility is shifted to the individual and away from institutions. No longer will someone be able to say I didn't know or couldn't get access. Technology eliminates a gatekeeper and when the gatekeeper is gone the responsibility shifts.[/quote]

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