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Republicans are often seen to be better on crime. Not because crime goes down under republicans, but because they talk about cops and punishment more.
Easy sell: stop crime by going after criminals.
Harder sell: stop crime by preventing the things that make people criminals.
Americans are not a mature people. They find it scarier to be without a gun than to be without a doctor.
Their mentality on crime is that they wanna punish bad guys. They don't care about justice, they just wanna "fight bad guys" like in an action movie. We can see this in how they obsess over Lindsay Clancy. They don't care that she has psychosis and would be better served in a mental institution, they saw that she did something bad and they wanna see her punished.
The reasons for her actions are not important, the fact that there's a better solution is not important, the fact that Not Guilty By Reason Of Insanity doesn't mean she gets to go home is not important.
She's a bad guy, and bad guys get punished.
Americans favor punishment over rehabilitation not because rehabilitation doesn't work (Other countries that focus on it show that it definitely does), but because they are immature and care more about "Fighting bad guys" than actual justice.
People are pretty stupid and uncritically believe the myths about the republican party. Guy I worked with said "the republicans will unlock the economy" so he voted for trump. And then tariffs borked his business, and the war in iran probably killed some of his family. But he still jokes, as an iranian immigrant, about ICE abductions. Some people are just stupid.
Yes, the propaganda is strong. Republicans have been objectively, scientifically proven bad for the economy, for blue collar workers, for crime, for reducing abortions, for religious freedom and for small government in the last... at least 5 decades.
But people believe that those are exactly the issues Republicans would address better than democrats.
I met a Persian that hates other Persians and loves Israel. People are indeed stupid as fuck.
Some people are stupid, but most I think are selfish and narrow minded, but also not stupid.
That's exactly it.
The GOP cornered the moronic "Law & Order" narrative because they're fascists who want a police state.
Establishment Dems also want a police state but know their voterbase doesn't. So they try to sell a police state, under different words, and still refuse to talk about any actually meaningful alternatives. Its why cunts like Hakeem Jefferies refuse to fight to abolish ICE even though abolishing ICE polls better than "reforming" it.
Only DSA candidates are pushing real solutions. That's why establishment Dems are fighting them harder in 1 year than they've fought Trump in 10 years.
I will be the greatest president. Using my superior prescient abilities I will stop the events that produce criminals to begin with. The entire country will be crime free at the end of my term. With the strength of a tactician's mind America will be the greatest country in the world
mouth breathers cheering as the end of Shall Never Surrender from DMC4 plays over loudspeskers
Everyone is 12 in America dude just sound like a confident supervillain and your are good.
Same with conservatives in Europe β and it's also the same with government efficiency. They get "issue ownership" because they talk about it a lot, but I've never heard of conservative politicians who've actually made government more efficient.
This definitely used to be true, but now that they're okay with the leader of their party using the FBI to cover up his own child sex abuse scandal, any Republican who asserts that they're tough on crime is going to lose that debate.
I hate to say it, but what you are feeling is wishful thinking.
https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2026/07/23/as-the-2026-midterms-approach-economy-is-front-and-center/
It's a harder sell, but it's impacted by media straight up not talking about policy that way. Investigative journalism in America (and probably the broader West) is essentially dead, so the public becomes wildly uninformed and has to go off vibes.
Definitely true. I think itβs a big part because of who owns the media.
If the pope would crack down on crime more with all that Vatican money the republicans wouldn't have to spend so much on crime. Pretty much nothing bad is really their fault fyi.