It seems we have reached the point where cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled power brokers have been enabled to subvert the power and will of the people, usurping for themselves the reins of government. They have destroyed the engine of democracy, using it to raise themselves to unjust dominion over us. They have gone “all in” in the final chapter of their plan to completely destroy the principles of freedom and liberty guaranteed by this republic.

Shall we accept and bow to partisan political propaganda, a false perception of safety, and complete control of our existence, or live free? Fundamentally, when you don’t live free, you are already pretty much dead. For free and independent people, in the absence of liberty, death is a blessing.

JEFF COOK Springdale