I do not know the origin of 'Defund the Police' - but it is a Loser.

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32. Hold on.

The people who came up with it are NOT POLITICAL. They are activists. Young black activists trying to find a meaningful solution to an unacceptable situation.

It was not come up with to sink the Democratic Party. It's just that the Trump campaign has latched onto it.

"Defunding the police" has real merit as a concept. However, it's a disastrous political slogan. IT WAS NOT MEANT TO BE A POLITICAL SLOGAN.

"Black Lives Matter" was not meant to be a political slogan either. It took George Floyd for white people to be able to understand it. But the slogan was developed in 2013 when Trayvon Martin's killer was acquitted. NOT POLITICAL.

This is just like the immigrant caravan that got all of the news in 2018. Those immigrants weren't trying to derail the Democratic Party. They were seeking asylum. But the Republicans spun it.

Please, please, please don't think that "Defund the Police" was developed as a political slogan, or to hand the Republican party a brush for tarring and feathering the Democrats.

Nobody on the right came up with it. It is a meaningful, viable concept. Unfortunately, like all three-word slogans, it's easy to put a negative spin on it.

I can understand slamming the phrase. I even understand that the concept may seem scary. But please do some research on how it came about instead of thinking that it was born from some right wing conspiracy to bring down the Democratic Party.