Protect democracy while you can

Published 1:30 am Thursday, December 30, 2021

Some of us have been suspicious of the secret conversations President Trump had with Russia’s dictator, Vladimir Putin. We now have cause to believe he was learning how Putin was able to derail Russia’s fledgling democracy and take permanent control of the Russian government.

We are now in danger of losing our own democracy. This 200-year-old experiment in government of, for, and by the people of the United States is in grave danger of being taken over by a dictator.

Democracy, as we know it, is in the hands of the young people now. Don’t leave them in the dark. This hard-fought-for democracy, if we lose it, would be harder, if even possible, to restore than it was to create in the beginning.

Jacqueline Robison

Edmonds