She attempted to bring up how the officers turning on Derek Chauvin shows that theres some good officers and I was having none of it. She's an extremely lib journalist and It was like talking with a wall. My boomer dad also backed her up. When I brought up how often police are abusers and such she said that the presidency is also corrupt and so is congress. Should they be torn down? I said yes and she said well that doesn't lead to a stable world when china and russia wanna swoop in and put gulags here. I was at this point so annoyed I just told her to look up imperialism, how capitalism exploits the global south, and how the united states has not enabled stability for any country that's not an ally of the united states' ruling class. Anyone have any tips on how I could have maybe radicalized her? I'm grasping at straws at this point and my family will probably make me out to be the villain.
I think we’re always going to struggle with these people until there are more successful alternative programs like in Denver. Libs have no imagination, and we have to put forth more than just ACAB to get through to them, because in their mind, who comes to help if I flip my car... etc
but surely if I was able to understand this stuff, my sister who is much more academically accomplished than me would be able to even more.
Not necessarily, your level of education has nothing to do with how smart you are
This exactly. Police abolition and defunding aren't easy to point to examples like free healthcare or better public transit. There are very few real world examples (that I know of at least).