Time to retire Don Young

To the editor:

Regardless of where Don Young’s intention lied when making those callous remarks in Wasilla, his many knee-jerk reactions, too many to enumerate for word-count limitations, are indicative of a mindset lodged in pre-statehood. In a future anticipated by he and the likes of Gov. Sean Parnell with Anchorage Mayor Dan Sullivan, or the other state-skipping Dan Sullivan campaigning against U.S. Sen. Mark Begich, indifference toward the sensitivities of anyone whose hopes and dreams take not of the same inspiration will become as common as a murder of crow or raven atop a toppled garbage bin.

This disregard for constituent sensibilities, whether demonstrated by faus paxs or mental lapses, by or in our political leaders, especially when displayed to the primordial grey-matter of adolescent and preteen neurological censorship, may have been the norm in an unconstrained, uncivilized, hunter-gatherer culture, but with a geometrically expanding population hitting its natural consumptive limits as we can witness in our climate crises, this kind of easy, habitual, irreverence for others and our ecological imprint, must be expunged from civil governance.

It’s time for Don Young’s retirement and who better than by the forest, Forrest Dunbar!

John S. Sonin

Juneau