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Whose rights have the US far left taken away, and how much deficit have they run up?

Joe Biden let in millions of illegal immigrants. The DSA wants to defund the police, take away private health insurance, scream the word "NAZI!" at people like me who disagree with them, make America communist, nationalize everything, and also the debt has rose by trillions of dollars because of Joe Biden.

If Joe Biden is your example of the Far Left, you are oddly confused. What the DSA (and they are idealists, but it's okay to have ideals) say that they want about the police is:

"Demilitarize police departments, disempower police unions, and redirect funding to public services as steps towards fully abolishing the police and prison system which protects the rich and jails the poor. Treat drug addiction and mental illness as health issues, not crimes. End qualified immunity and empower civilian oversight bodies with real authority over the police."

So, to demilitarize the police means having them less heavily armed, less set to kill people (they kill 800-1000 people each year). Police unions (and prison guard unions) are a major force in the push to incarcerate more and more people for longer each year (something that costs us a lot of government $, destroys families and communities, and does not reform the imprisoned people. Oh, and it puts us firmly in the 3rd world class of countries.

Redirecting funding towards public services make sense. Do you want long-term homeless people arrested, or getting mental health counseling, job training, and support towards finding homes? Do you think that drug addiction and mental illness are health issues, or do you think that imprisoning people who suffer from them will make them better?

Ending qualified immunity means making sure that there is community oversight to keep the small percentage of rogue cops from harming or killing people.

Once you think about them, don't those sound like good ideals to have?

I want homeless people getting mental health counseling, job training, and support towards finding homes but we can help them do this without the DSA. They call themselves socialists for a reason, and its to abolish capitalism. We can achieve those goals with regular liberals.

The organization wants to abolish the senate, are you fine with that? They don't want mandatory rehab, are you fine with that?

The DSA is the leftist version of MAGA and I advise America not to make the same mistake with this one. Populist movements are always a pain in the butt so stamp them out when you can.

Are you fine with criminals running around in your street with no one to arrest them one day? Even if crime drops what happens when someone does commit a crime?

You have trump's "Gazpacho" murdering people on the streets, and getting paid to do it.

True. I think ICE is doing something very wrong right now, and that they should never racially profile anybody.

But a basic level of law should still be enforced. Even though the law should never judge you by race, it should still discipline those who did wrong.

The vast majority of people agree. The right likes to focus on the few who don't so they can convince the surprisingly large number of ignorant people who believe the most documented liar in the history of the world.

True. A plane needs both wings to fly.