That depends on the issue.
When it comes to getting testing kits, they are not better than the federal government. Especially given the fact that they would be/are competing against 49 other states.
The Federal Government should have stepped in, helped order tests and supplied them based on priority. If we could catch the outbreaks before they got bad, we wouldn't have needed all these damn shutdowns.
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Minneapolis Public Schools board members have written a resolution terminating the school district's contract with the Minneapolis Police Department.
The University of Minnesota was the first public institution to cut ties with MPD after the killing of George Floyd.
Why is it that cops are more afraid of a single unarmed Black man than they are of 100 white guys with guns?
Look at Minnesota's population
94% WHITE
5% BLACK (15% of that lives in Minneapolis)
Midland Texas (where 6 cops and a 90 year old granny bumped heads)
76% White
8% Black
So what their image of a black person is relegated to the media and word of mouth or limited experiences.
Meanwhile many have grown up or been around some of those white guys with guns or certain beliefs.
And here is the big thing-Some of these cops did not grow up in or near the communities they work in.
According to a former cop in my district-there is a reason for that.
SAFETY of family.
She was in a store with her child when a guy came up to her to just say "hello, remember me". It was a guy she BUSTED years ago. When he left she got her daughter and left that store. Her family moved to another city.
So now the issue is how do you solve that? While it would be nice to get folks from the community as cop (let alone TEACHERS)-it's not easy.
The main relevance of the popular vote in that context is that it is helpful in winning the electoral college (and before anyone brings up Hillary Clinton and Al Gore, neither won a majority of the popular vote.)
As for congressional elections, it was a different time for Democrats. No one thought the segregationist Senators who had at that point recently filibustered the civil rights bill were on the side of the rioters.
It hurt Republicans that some morons went to the capital to march with guns.
It doesn't help Democrats when people pissed off at cops are taking over police stations and burning out pharmacies.
My point was more that leading the UK during World War 2 might have been the most important act of any prime minister ever, so that you were responding to an odd dismissal.
This is an underappreciated problem.
The big box stores can afford the losses, but it might discourage them from coming back.
Local businesses might not have the resources to recover.
Wouldn't this approach encourage riots, by letting people know that if they riot, they'll benefit from it?
Sincerely,
Thomas Mets