Balance

I know it’s all the rage to take the extreme position nowadays in some kind of fucked up leveraging strategy, but balance is the thing. Except that I’m not trying to balance far left with far right. What’s considered far left these days used to be a lot closer to the center. You can’t balance common sense with fascism. This is why I am probably closer to the far left these days than left of center. But there are some positions and statements that I consider too extreme or poorly worded. Defund the Police is a prime example. You won’t win any elections with that demand or statement or slogan or whatever you want to call it. You can stake that position in the actions you take while governing but you will not win one single election outside of a handful of congressional districts if that is your mission statement. Democrats in general, and leftists in particular - are terrible at framing. We shoot ourselves in the foot, time and time again. And we end up with the extreme right winning elections that are otherwise winnable by liberals with common sense. I said this a while back - but most school privatizers don’t run on the slogan: Defund Public Schools. They use Trojan horse tactics and frame them with words like choice.