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In a democracy, people vote for things. People also want a job. People are not going to vote for things which will lose them their job.

• jokethrowaway 4y ago
  And when you're the government you don't want to lose employees. Propaganda will make sure this won't even reach the average citizen.
  • bobthepanda 4y ago
    Police is an interesting edge case, where at least in 2022 the people who want to reduce police are firmly on the left, and those firmly on the right want to cut everything except police. There was an attempt to defund police, and that went down with the electorate like a lead balloon.
    • throwaway0a5e 4y ago
      There are broad swaths of the left and right that want as little to do with law enforcement as possible. It's the moralizing religious right and the jackbooted ivory tower left types (both of whom think they know exactly how other people should live) that want lots of policing.
      • bobthepanda 4y ago
        Not to get too far into the weeds here, but Eric Adams, the black mayor of NYC who was formerly a police officer, was certainly not voted in by either the religious right or the ivory tower left.