To the editor:
In response to Quddus Snyderâs letter published on Jan. 20, I guess I have to educate poor Quddus as education and learning is a lifelong endeavor. It seems one of Quddus Snyderâs civics teachers must have failed him, because he is under the impression that America is a democracy, which we are not. We are a representational republic.
The majority of people in the country can and have voted for one person but the electoral college votes for another because that is the way our forefathers wrote it into the Constitution.
This was done by design to protect the rights of smaller states such as New Hampshire from the whims of large metropolitan areas.
To the editor:
Some of us who have read history and philosophy have waited for this moment: Having created an insatiable monster, at precisely what moment will Republicans slay or, alternatively, be devoured by it?
That moment is upon us, arriving on Jan. 6, when Congress will override an attempt by a minority of treasonous Republicans to thwart the will of the people. Truth is on the line; so is democracy. Republicans in Washington and those in Eaton should ask themselves whether democracy or loyalty to a tyrant is more important.
In a sense, this moment is a gift because the times are few when a self-governing people is called to defend and renew the Republic. Those Republicans, like Sen. Ben Sasse of Nebraska and Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah, who are willing to defend the Constitution, should be honored in memory.
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