Don Ewing: Things writer finds weird about Democrat vice presidential pick

To The Daily Sun,

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, Kamala Harris’ vice president pick, says I’m weird because I object to:

Putting tampon dispensers in boys bathrooms.

Taking children from parents who don’t provide gender altering drugs and surgeries to young children. If children aren’t mature enough to smoke or buy guns, how can they be mature enough to decide to sterilize or mutilate themselves? Most of Europe outlawed these practices.

Providing sanctuary to illegal aliens. Support for illegal aliens costs taxpayers over $150 billion annually (vs. about $3 billion for homeless veterans). More objectionable are the millions of American citizens who are harmed because of illegal immigration and our open border: about 100,000 annual American deaths, millions of victims of rape or other crimes, and millions of mostly poor Americans who suffer because their neighborhoods are flooded with illegal aliens making demands on schools, hospitals, social services, housing, jobs, etc.

Allowing government to censor our free speech. During COVID the government and social media companies censored truth but allowed lies; this censorship prevented access to lifesaving information and treatments by thousands of Americans.

Killing full term, healthy babies. Third trimester abortions of healthy babies and letting babies that survive abortion attempts die are barbaric practices.

Letting rioters rampage through and destroy mostly poor neighborhoods: looting, burning, and assaulting people. Walz refused National Guard support when requested by the Minneapolis mayor during the 2020 riots.

Lying about one’s military service for political advantage. Walz’s actual service should be respected, but his false claims about his military rank and being in combat, and more importantly his abandonment of his leadership responsibilities to his soldiers when they were deployed to war, is dishonorable.

If voters oppose his lying and actions that harm American citizens and our country, Walz thinks they’re weird too.

Don Ewing

Meredith