if we're not taking every opportunity to instill political education, what kind of vanguard are we?

the problem with this take is that it's fundamentally tailist. it sets you up to follow where people are at and what they profess to want today and treating that as some kind of immutable truth. in fact, people got into the streets and fought the cops to demand police abolition - so the revolutionary segment of the class is already ahead of this sentiment. that bourgeois opinion polling - intended to recuperate that demand - says that the demand isn't popular isn't particularly surprising or noteworthy. chase the polls into electoralism if you like, but the revolutionary path is to work out what future demands the class ought to make on its path to overthrowing its masters.