Research shows that the “defund the police” movement was like a 10-year-old child’s temper tantrum that lost the Democrats a lot of votes that could have resulted in a landslide victory for Joe Biden, a gain of seats in the House and a takeover of the Senate.
This could have resulted in the passage of some of the new social programs that these “lefties” want. This was perhaps the dumbest move by the Democrats in the last 40 years.
Almost as stupid was some of these Democrats calling themselves socialists. That was another “kiss of death” that was made even more foolish by the fact that none of them are truly socialists at all. They are actually social Democrats.
Please read the online article titled “Bernie Sanders Isn’t A Socialist” by Paul Krugman, which appeared in The New York Times.
Krugman won the 2008 Nobel Prize in Economics. I believe that it is fair and safe to say that someone who won the Nobel Prize actually knows what a socialist does and does not believe in (even though I know that political conservatives love to criticize and bash Krugman).
Stewart B. Epstein, Rochester, N.Y.
