No, sorry, I wasn't suggesting you were one of the Abolish the Police people. I was saying that attention inevitably gets split on important issues when the goals are too diffuse. And that leaves a vacuum for the idiots to rush into. The abolish the police people draw attention and public sympathy away from those pushing for common sense police reform. So in the end, all efforts fail.

BLM is a perfect example of this. Billions of dollars in donations, the attention of the whole world, meetings at the White House, and nothing to show for it except the illegal enrichment of the founders and their families and, I would argue, deeper racial divisions. Not because there weren't dedicated, hard-working people involved with BLM, especially at the grass-roots level, not because there weren't genuine problems to fix, but because instead of forming a national or even international movement for police accountability that would have helped everybody (black and brown people most of all), it became a narrow, confused, and divisive movement centred around "fighting racism."

It's not "impossible" for lawmakers to work on multiple things simultaneously. Just as it's not "impossible" for the average person to get six-pack abs, write a novel, and run a successful cheese-importing business simultaneously. But the reality is that most people are lucky if they achieve one of these things. Big legislative efforts require media attention and funding and take years of continuous focus. They also need to be concrete and measurable. And more often than not, in 2024, efforts to "fight racism" are just incoherent, virtue-signalling, vibes-based distractions.