Letter to the editor: Let’s not be ignorant about the election – Glens Falls Post-Star

Emma Goldman said, “The greatest form of violence is ignorance”— willful ignorance, creating violence.

Before and after the election, Trump spoke of election fraud, said he won the elections, filed 60 court actions, demanded audit after audit — all confirming the 2020 elections fair, free of fraud.

On Jan. 6, Trump urged followers to storm the Capitol, declaring the election stolen. He threatened election officials, called the Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensberger to change the state’s voting totals, tried to get Vice President Pence to overturn the election.

Steven Bannon said, “Kill the Biden presidency in the crib.” Flynn said the U.S. should have a coup like in Myanmar, that “it should happen here.” We know that Trump had discussions with Republicans in Congress at the time of the terrorist attack.

We know that John Eastman, lawyer and adviser to Trump, outlined plans to overturn election results and install Trump as leader and that staff members of Republican attorneys general met in Atlanta to plot what to do if Trump were not elected, urging people to march to the Capitol “to stop the steal.”

The 2022 Conservative Political Action Conference will be held in Hungary, where Orban, the president, has been dismantling democracy. The right wing has taken over the Republican Party, our Stefanik in the lead, repeating the lie “the election was stolen;” Republican lawmakers in 18 states have passed more than 30 laws limiting and suppressing votes.

Election workers have been threatened, dissenters on all levels harassed, those with integrity silenced. How could one be ignorant about this threat to democracy?

This has nothing to do with partisan politics, political opinions or ideology. It’s what someone said (in their words) and did (in their actions) and about why some didn’t want a bipartisan investigation that would reveal what is true.

Bernice Mennis, West Fort Ann