Letter: Vote blue
Published: 10-31-2024 3:12 PM |
Many of us have relied on the ultimate good sense and patriotism of Congress and the Supreme Court to keep the basic form of our government intact and functioning. No longer possible. Our future is entirely up to voters and the honesty of the vote counters in the race for president. Following Trump’s January 6 insurrection and his crooked legal maneuverings to stay in power, the failure of Republican senators to join Democrats and convict Trump of the impeachment charges, and thus prohibit him from holding office ever again, proved their cowardly dereliction of duty to Congress and country.
Meanwhile, the radical majority of the Supreme Court has shown an appalling tolerance for public corruption, lawlessness and gun violence. The Court, holed up in its ivory tower, is missing in action. Some people think their one vote doesn’t matter, so why bother voting? The squeaker 1974 Wyman-Durkin NH Senate race and 2000 Bush-Gore Presidential race proves the opposite. But even if that were sometimes true for an individual, it’s never true for society as a whole. It’s now up to us, to show up and vote for Democrats, in part to give the Republican Party time to re-gather its sanity. The alternative is chaos and a vicious, hateful attempt to drag us backwards by force into the Orwellian world of 1984. We’re better than that, aren’t we? Where does the Concord Monitor stand on this most consequential question?
Edward Damon
Concord