If they won’t, we must

I’m not sure honestly what is left to say.

How many frivolous lawsuits filed, how many threatening phone calls, how many acts of election infringement, how many hundreds of thousands of sick and dead Americans does there need to be before GOP congressional members — our House representative, Cathy McMorris Rodgers, included — will stand up and say, “Enough”?

To watch the GOP come to this, to be unable to have the integrity to acknowledge our election results, to ignore those whose families have been destroyed by COVID-19, to focus solely on a far-right conspiracy of a stolen election, it’s pitiful for a party supposedly steeped in traditional values. How far they have fallen, or maybe this was always the goal? A corporate state manned by a mafia family and their sycophants, unafraid to use unrestrained power and a disregard for rules.

To the many health care workers and administrators who are friends and hundreds who are clients, I am sorry that we have done so little as a nation to support and protect you. You didn’t sign up for this, and our president and our country as a whole have let you down.

It is not too late to take basic precautions to stem the tide in our region by mask-wearing, social and physical distancing and doing the opposite of what you normally do this holiday season. If the president, our representative and their party won’t do it, we can stand up and be the leaders our region needs right now.

Nancy Janzen

Spokane