Fundamentally this is why conservatives are winning. They rely on gut feelings over actual facts. You don't have to know anything about reproduction if you *feel* abortion is murder. You don't have to know anything about history if you *feel* the system is fair.

The liberal / left / real position is one that requires a nuanced understanding of reality, and most people just aren't interested or don't have time. But those same people want to ignore experts and evidence based on their feelings.

Humanity isn't gonna make it.

It's amazing how any law biding person can be convinced to believe that it's more important to protect criminals than protecting us from criminals. If Joseph Goebbels was alive today, he'd be amazed at the magic trick the left is pulling to convince half the population from completely abandoning personal interests in favor of ideological aims.

I want to actually reduce crime. More police doesn't do that. In many ways it makes the problem worse, as incarceration and dealing with the justice system more often than not causes greater desparation.

The police are typically not defending us against criminals. They are dealing with domestic disputes, noise complaints, traffic violations, etc. etc. Things that largely just generate fines and do little to actually protect the community from criminals, and that would be better handled by other professionals.

Why do police show up when somebody is having a mental health issue? Why does somebody with a gun need to show up when an autistic kid is having a fit? They don't. They aren't trained for it. They aren't equipped for it. It is not fair to put all these things on our police officers. They can't be expected to do everything.

We need more social workers, both for the sake of the public and for the sake of the police officers themselves.

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Maybe that autistic kid has a knife and sending in a "social worker" might end up with her guts decorating the floor?

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Social workers are trained on how to handle those kinds of situations. My mother is a 140lb woman who's worked with 30+ residents for her entire career in a care facility. Lots of autism, lots of fits. Never once even gotten close to being stabbed.

The data also bears this out. Everywhere that has transitioned to this model has not has that issue.

Also, the social worker can always call a police officer after they arrive if needed. It's not like police will be banned from ever showing up when they are necessary.

"Cowards"

Got it. Sad when owning ar15s, heavily outnumbering the person, armored vehicles, body armor can't make someone less of a pussy on the inside.

Of course this is your response to what Tcock said, rather than heeding the very correct advice, which applies to all of politics.

Without overtly speaking for him, I will piggyback with my own addendum - no, you're not smarter. You're not fact vs emotion, you're not nuanced. When you're "explaining" it means you assume the other person is literally too much of an idiot, and if only they'd LISTEN to you they'd then agree with you. The irony, is that in this hypothetical scenario, you are the idiot for failing to connect with another person, failing to learn the very basic interpersonal skills necessary to do so.

As a leftist, I agree. The democrats are too far to the right to win.