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Letter to the Editor: As a citizen, dismay and concern reign, in heart and mind, with the country’s state of upheaval. To find our valuable protection in the governing bodies - administrative, legislative, and high court - the division of power – now apparently, undependable.
Neighbors, relatives, and friends divided. News we read, hear, and watch can’t be trusted, with hate spewing lies and name calling. The mere nature of social media turning truth to untruth, we are being misled.
Watching the January 6 attack on the Capitol in Washington D.C., finding disbelief that fellow citizens would participate in such, determined to attack Congress, potentially seeking to kill targeted government officials there. More unbelievable, some, even the targeted, later to say such did not happen, while coverage that day was live.
One wonders, what has become of ‘we the people.’ What of leadership? What has become of morality and truth? Will we choose a return to the Dark Ages as ethics sink, greed leading people deceived?
How to fathom elected leaders ignoring duty, while accepting their paychecks and benefits; fighting each other, yet doing little for the people they represent.
Reality looms with ocean’s warming, weather affected globally, PFA’s, micro plastics in water and air, the great Minnesota waters, polluted by farm chemicals, washing down the center of the country. We may deny and ignore, we can follow false gods, but it will not change what is true.
The story by Hans Christian Andersen, “The Emperor’s New Clothes,” first published in 1837, is still apt, all these years later. Trials reveal a questionable former president - yet many choosing to follow - overlooking a vast list of proven misdeeds. As a people, don’t we deserve more from leadership? It is our duty to do the right thing for this country, for our fellow citizens, for our children, for the future. We must rise above selfishness and deceit, finding a way back for the sake of our republic. Should we choose not to, despite all indicators, elect, with our valuable vote, a narcissistic charismatic and his cronies, we approve of the potential fascist state. Watch how quickly we descend, and reap, what we have sown.
Cecilia Rolando Ely, MN
