I’ve told this story here before: in my lib days I was elected to a county-level public office. I was the only one on a committee (of evenly divided republicans and democrats) to vote against funding the police. The sheriff was three feet away from me and he just completely lost it and was screaming in my face. None of the other committee members backed me up or would even talk to me. I was so shocked I could barely speak. (Earlier I had politely asked if he was working with ICE; he told everyone that he was, and yet another shocked silence descended upon the room, since I guess even the republicans know that ICE is the gestapo.) I resigned after covid because they wanted to keep meeting in person and I wasn’t willing to risk my family to stick it to the pigs when I had zero community support. I was legitimately concerned that the police or their friends would kill us. This is why I’m extremely annoyed when, come election time, people say we need to vote for local democrats because they somehow aren’t as bad as state or federal democrats, even though all three groups worship the police and keep giving them unlimited money to murder people. In bourgeois elections it’s only okay to support blatantly communist political parties.