Those two items do take a prominent place in the dem platform [0]

Several large-ish departments [1] have been persuaded to make budgetary changes in regards to the lite version of defund the police, i.e. transfer certain operations to medical specialists such as mental illness, etc.

don't have time to dig as deep into dem support of taxpayer-funded healthcare, but here is one group to pay attention to because they seem to be very realistic, even pragmatic about it. Some interesting podcast interviews coming out of their media: https://pnhp.org/news-category/members-in-the-news/ https://pnhp.org/kitchen-table-campaign/

[3] https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/07/us/new-york-city-police-fundi...

[2] https://www.npr.org/2020/12/10/944938471/minneapolis-shifts-...

[1] https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/civilians-could-repl...

[0] https://democrats.org/where-we-stand/party-platform/

I think he means the thousands (and rising) of people shot by criminals every year, not the few dozen shot by police.

No, I definitely mean the people shot by police. It's not so much the direct deaths that are the problem as the issue of making people unable to rely on the police.

And while criminal shootings are... rising? (for homicides, 2019 was on par with 2006, above 2014, and below 2017), excess police don't stop criminal shootings.

Yes, the actual socialists and other economic leftists are the big losers right now. Biden admin will push idpol nonsense to the extreme while not delivering anything worthwhile for the economic left.

Next four years will be a feeding frenzy for the sociopaths of America.