Dear Editor,

Do you believe:

¯ That Donald Trump won the 2020 presidential election — the big lie?

¯ That the 2020 election was fraught with corruption — the big steal — despite A. G. Barr, courts, and state investigations all saying otherwise “that the election may have been cleanest election ever?”

¯ That the big lie and big steal comprise the cover story for tighter, more restrictive voters laws and more partisan control over vote reporting because of our nation’s changing demographics. The end justifies the means?

¯ That the National Republican Committee’s unanimous description of the Trump supporters violent storming the Capitol Jan. 6 to prevent the transfer of governmental authority was legitimate political discourse?

¯ That the NRC censuring Representatives Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger for “participating in the Congressional inquiry,” was proper despite their high 90-plus percent Conservative voter record — to hide the facts or not following party line?

¯ That Vice President Mike Pence while doing his perfunctorily duty of declaring the Presidential winner, supposedly believe Pence had the authority to throw the election to Trump and should have done so?

¯ That Trump Republicans leading the charge to ban books from library shelves are on the right path, while David Hogg, a Stoneman Douglas H. S. Survivor of our country’s worst school slaughter, on Feb. 14, 2018, reminds us that books have killed no one — guns do?

¯ That the states’ reactionary Republicans’ insistence that a watered down, white washed, narrow version of our nation’s history be taught in our public schools should be the model nation-wide. The Critical Race Theory controversy involves the teaching of the intersection of law and race, forming the basis for racial justice, thus THE BAN. Their rationale is “if the subject matter makes some people uncomfortable or threatened” it should be banned. Similar rationale is behind book banning. One could view the controversy as attempts to return to the 1950s before the civil rights movements, feminism, Pride Month, etc. – back when white men, (preferably Protestant men) were in control and many of our fellow citizens suffered in silence.

Our three Republican legislators Pat Toomey, GT Thompson, and Mike Kelley, have remained basically mute about the above – their voting records and public statements indicate to me that they do believe or are too meek and cowardly to face the wrath of those who do. Or that they are swaying with the breeze, patronizing the lowest denominators of the base to remain in office?

Such makes it hard to believe, as does Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, that “Here, Right Matters.”

Don Scott,

North Warren