Fetterman disabled? So?

 To WP

Dear Editor

Yesterday's  debate  between candidates Fetterman and Oz  “revealed the ableism inherent in the electoral process and the added scrutiny that candidates with disabilities receive compared with their non-disabled counterparts,” tells us Amanda Morris (WP, Oct. 27/22.) Ms. Morris may well be right; but is this sort of “ableism” necessarily wrong? Shouldn't voters be entitled to expect that their representatives—particularly at the highest levels of goverment—do not have the sort of disabilities that keep them from thinking clearly? If Fetterman has such disabilities, shouldn’t he yield to someone whose thought processes are more likely to enable him to perform well at his assigned job? Ms. Morris—and WP—comes dangerously close to suggesting that, no, that someone cognitively impaired should be given the same chances as someone who is mentally fit. sadly, this is an argument the logic of which would compel us to give a blind person the same right to drive as someone with 20-20 vision, or compel the manager of a World Cup soccer team to have on his roster an equal number of weak-kneed or weak-hipped players as of perfectly fit players.

No, if Mr. Fetterman is cognitively impaired he simply should not be running for one of the highest positions in the country.

Ermes Culos

Ashcroft BC

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