Dems double down on DEI, child sex changes, open borders, and soft-on-crime policies at DNC annual convention

The Resolutions Committee of the DNC unanimously passed the resolution to affirm what they have called the "American Values of diversity, equity and inclusion." The Trump administration has been doing away with this concept, saying instead that merit, and not racial, ethnic, or gender identity should be a deciding factor in policy, employment, or college admissions. That resolution will be up for a vote on Wednesday by the whole DNC.

DNC chairman Ken Martin complained that that he was "sick and tired of this Democratic Party bringing a pencil to a knife fight. We cannot be the only party that plays by the rules anymore."

Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison got big applause when he said they've sued Trump over "gender affirming care," saying "we are not going to scapegoat our transgender community." The Trump campaign was able to tap into Americans' desire for fairness in competition when they exposed the Democrats' insistence that men who claim to be women should compete in women's sports.

The issue revealed that some 80% of Americans favor fairness over "inclusion" of men who say they are women. "Kamala is for they/them, Donald Trump is for you," the ad from the Trump campaign said.

Senator Amy Klobuchar told Democrats that "immigrants don't diminish America, they are America," when talking about undocumented workers. This comes as the Trump administration has been tackling their campaign promise of mass deportations of illegal immigrant criminals.

Bill Owen of Tennessee said that "DEI is the very foundation of the Christian church" and tried to shame Christian Republicans for not believing that. "These are American values. This is what America was built on," Owen said. "And to my Republican friends and fellow citizens…who profess to be active Christians, I remind them that D.E.I. is the very foundation of the Christian church. I get a little emotional on this, but Jesus loves little children. All the children of the world. Red and yellow, black and white."

Minnesota Governor and former Kamala Harris running mate Tim Walz said "we're proud to be a diverse party. We are proud of the diversity of this country. We're not shying away from diversity as a strength and equity as a goal and inclusion being the air we breathe. That's what we should be doing." He claimed Trump was backing "fascist policies."

Another delegate said that American voters don't care about the "really lurid stuff" like "migrant crime and carjackings." Instead, she told DNC members "don't take the bait."

"Most Americans are more worried about how we're going to address mental health issues, the homelessness that we see on streets," she said, "and how do we deal with mental health and other issues that scare all of us. That's what you should be talking about, that's what you should be focused on. Don't take the bait—I'm talking about migrant crime or carjackings, or the things that actually don't matter to that many Americans."

To this delegate, cracking down on crime is just a "play from the overall authoritarian playbook."

Still another said that senior citizens would take to the streets with "pitchforks" should anyone get in the way of their social security benefits.

The Democrats kicked off the whole shebang with a land acknowledgement. Lindy Sowmick of the Saginaw Ojibwe Nation delivered that acknowledgment that the DCN was holding its meeting on stolen land.

"Good morning, DNC members, friends and relatives," Sowmick said, "let’s talk about the land for a second. The DNC acknowledges and honors the… Dakota people, who are the original stewards of the lands and waters of Minneapolis. The Dakota cared for the lands, lakes and the… great river, the Mississippi River for thousands of years before colonization. This land was not claimed or traded, it’s part of a history of broken treaties and promises, and in many ways, we still live in a system built to suppress indigenous peoples’ cultural and spiritual history."