MrCoolDale wrote:It is worth mentioning that the two issues they touched on are issues we should agree with. They said he will go after people selling firearms to felons and he will actually put violent offenders in jail.
I understand he'll actually do a lot more that isn't in our interest, I'm only commenting on the two issues mentioned in the video.
It's the political silly season, and the transparent lying is in full swing. It's nice that Comrade Denn's party has realized that their rhetoric from the 60s and 70s about compassion and tough lives and down-on-their-luck and misunderstood and depraved-on-account-I'm-deprived doesn't work any more. It alienates more normal people than it draws in hippy-dippy hug-a-thug types (who are still distressingly numerous), and lock-'em-up-throw-away-the-key has been a vote winner since the 1990s.
On the other hand, it's all complete garbage. There's a reason Comrade Denn's party wants to enfranchise felons in prison and convicts who have been released from prison. There's a reason their strategy for dealing with violent crime consists of paying felons to stand on street corners and disseminate an anti-violence message, in between cat-calling at women (as I observed on the streets of Wilmington yesterday). There's a reason they want to disarm you.