To the editor:
I have always appreciated the democratic republic that we in the United States of America enjoy. Knowing that that is not unanimous, such a stand gives many the right to disagree and to loathe the democratic republic.
Currently, the talking heads who are Democrats, tell us that this is a most to-be-feared election just in case that Donald Trump is elected president. The monologue goes something like this: We have a healthy and well-balanced country with President Joe Biden and to change that will destroy the democracy and make of our country a totalitarian dictatorship with Trump at the helm.
The current talking heads who are conservative tell us that this is a most-to-be-feared election because, if Biden is re-elected, the continued change we have experienced for three years will destroy the downhill trend of Biden, and such a change will finish off the democracy and keep failing the democratic republic.
Either way, we have a weak democracy that cannot maintain its strength, and both positions seem to threaten the public again and again. If our democracy is to fail under Trump or Biden it is a weak and rightfully failing form of government. The system of checks and balances of a three-branch government was meant to protect our form of government.
Only two conclusions are our choices: Democracy is weak, frail and doomed to failure, or the three branches have failed, and we need to dismiss each member and begin again.
Rev. Jeffrey A. Mackey
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