Sandy Shanks
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Democrats are shooting themselves in the foot!
In cities across America they are urging in both signage and speech that police departments be defunded, although the lead Democrat, Joe Biden, is opposed to such a horrific idea.
It is all well and good for protesting Democrats to make signs and speeches proclaiming that all police departments are racist and should be disbanded. They are not in positions of power, and they don't have to come with alternatives to law enforcement to protect the citizenry.
And they don't because there isn't any alternative. After all, they are just protesters. They don't have to come up real solutions.
That task falls to politicians who are power.
Such as for example, the Minneapolis city council.
Nine members (veto proof) of the Minneapolis City Council on Sunday announced they intend to defund and dismantle the city's police department following the police killing of George Floyd.
"We committed to dismantling policing as we know it in the city of Minneapolis and to rebuild with our community a new model of public safety that actually keeps our community safe," Council President Lisa Bender told CNN. Minneapolis police: City Council members announce intent to defund the police department - CNN
The mayor has full control over the Mpls. P.D., not the city council, and the mayor has a powerful role in the budget in Mpls.
Lisa and the city council veep appeared on CNN and made complete fools of themselves when Wolf Blitzer insisted on answers to his questions. He asked, absent law enforcement, who will protect the citizens of Minneapolis? What is your alternative to the police department? Eventually the two settled on an answer because Blitzer was being very persistent. Their answer: Minneapolis still had a police department.
While Trump continues to make a fool of himself (suggesting injecting disinfectant to kill the virus), and he refuses to answer questions from reporters since last Monday's comical photo op (see humorous 2 1/2 video: YouTube), the Democrats have given the White House, Fox News, and other Trump Republican outlets extremely critical talking points.
In fact, while ignoring what Trump is actually doing, saying, and tweeting, thanks to the Democrats and the obliging liberal media, that is all they are talking about.
While Trump's numbers are seeking a new bottom, Democrats, meaning protesters, Mpls city council members, and other politicians who have lost their minds and their common sense, have to ask themselves a question.
Why in the world are we snatching defeat from the jaws of victory ... again? 2016 redux.