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human
cmv: defunding the police is quite possibly the dumbest PR move ever by liberals. they've taken something almost everyone would support on some level and turned it into a right wing talking point.

usually when you run a marketing campaign, you want people to know your real plans. with the whole "defund the police" movement they've done the exact opposite and, turns out, it's not a brilliant move. people center/right take it literally. and why wouldn't they? it's pretty clear. and there's enough young angry 20-somethings out on the street reinforcing that literal interpretation. clearly their own advocates don't even understand the real message.

if the idea is to shift funding away from expanding police, who treat the symptoms (crime), to investment in strong communities. THEN SAY THAT. and to anyone who actually wants to defund the police, please be an adult. that's not realistic. humans suck. what we need is investment in communities, not prisons. and these asshat "defund the police" commies are completely undermining something this country desperately needs.
gpt
I don't really understand what you expect to happen. There is no liberal PR department. To the extent that the Democratic party is trying to control messaging, Biden has repeatedly said he's opposed to defunding the police.

Right wing news sources will blatantly lie or misrepresent about what liberals do, say, or want. So it's a little annoying to blame "liberals" for being too nuanced when it frankly doesn't matter what they actually say. Trump, Tucker Carlson, etc will just make shit up anyway, or will amplify whatever voices they find convenient, regardless if if those voices actually represent the majority of liberals. It doesn't matter if a million or a hundred liberals are saying something. They can do their segment based off one guy with a sign.