I think perhaps the larger point I should be making is that everyone, on both sides, should consider the ramifications of the sort of rhetoric being thrown around.
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Current polls show a majority of Dems would rather have a different candidate than Joe...but can't name one. That's a dying party. They're reheating this corpse for another election cycle, and if they force Trump off the ballot (arguably, a candidate people want) it's a recipe for violence.
That's nice. I seem to recall similar things being claimed about Republicans just over a decade ago. In fact, I can remember the same being claimed about Democrats in the early 90s, when Pres. Bush had a huge lead in the polls -- shortly before Gov. Clinton showed up and spent 8 years in the White House. These types of thoughts always seem to be wishful thinking by the opposite party.
And if you haven't noticed, the destruction of the police has been pretty thorough.
It has? Odd, from 2020 to 2021 there was a drop of $870 million drop in police spending -- which sounds like a lot until you realize that was against a total nationwide budget of over $100 billion. So less than a 1% drop. And, on top of that, much of the cuts in spending were COVID related, as you didn't need huge amounts of police in areas where crowds were not supposed to gather.
More interestingly, almost all the push for "defunding police" today come from Republicans -- who want to defund the FBI, the DoJ, and reverse the increases in budget for the IRS to better go after high income tax cheats (where the government is actually gaining more money from the extra enforcement that the increase in their budget).
And the military is desperate for recruits....especially after losing so many to mandatory vaccinations.
Again, as has been pointed out, a very small percentage; 8,000 (from the numbers I see reported) of 1.4 million service members. It was always known with a declining number of youth that the military would have a harder time recruiting the numbers needed -- it has been talked about since the 80s when I was in the military.
And well...I'm sure I don't have to remind you the attitude of Democrats to the suggestion we shore up election procedures so at least the majority have confidence in elections. Even posters on here disagreed with the idea.
From what I've seen, it depends on the "procedures." Yes, shoring up procedures to make it harder for individuals to vote -- particularly when the proposals have been shown in studies to make no difference, other than to lower the numbers voting -- have been opposed. Ideas to totally scrap election machines and count elections by hand have also been opposed, for the simple fact that it again makes the counting more difficult, less secure and accurate, etc.
More to the point, so long as you have the "leader" (as the likely Presidential nominee) claiming that the voting systems do not work, regardless of what changes have been created -- particularly claiming that is Republican states that are cheating for Democrats -- no change that you can make to the voting system will give confidence in elections. Particularly with Trump already claiming that there will likely be cheating in the 2024 election, even with all the changes and before any votes are even cast.
You don't see this as a potential recipe for violence?
What I see is "fearmongering," regardless of which side is doing it, as being a recipe for violence.
