Republicans putting America in danger

Two hundred words can’t reveal the damage Republicans are doing to our democracy. Looking for bamboo in phantom ballots voted in Arizona is nonsense. Not allowing water for people in hot voting lines in Georgia is cruel. Against looking into Trump’s inspired insurrection is unAmerican. Believing the “Big Lie” about the election being stolen is absurd. Passing laws that social studies teachers can’t teach about systemic racism and wanting to fire Dr. Fauci is insane.

Republicans have no regard for the tenants of democracy any longer. They saw democracy in action in Georgia and didn’t like it. Representative democracy means everyone gets to vote; Republicans want no part of that. That’s totalitarianism. The party of Lincoln, Dirksen and Howard Baker is extinct. They have become Trump’s cult.

Refusing water to a voter should never happen in America, and refusing a commission to investigate “the insurrection” is preposterous. We had commissions for Pearl Harbor, 9-11 and Kennedy’ Assassination. Why not the insurrection? This should wake up decent Republicans. Our way of life is in peril. If you can’t see that, your brain’s not in gear.

Wilbourne C. Markham Sr.

Signal Mountain