To the Journal Editor:

Yes, we had a good thing going with our American democracy but we’re in danger of losing it!

Perhaps there is at least one good thing to come out of the chaos that has been thrust upon us by the present administration in Washington. Yes, we are able to see and hear in our own streets and neighborhoods, in color and stereo sound, on hand-held devices and wide screen television, exactly what awaits us as a nation and a society when we lose it! As flawed as our government is, do we really want to replace it with what we’re witnessing in Minneapolis? Do we really want to give up on what Dr. Martin Luther King referred to as that “arc of justice” with all of it’s accompanying wide-ranging social advantages like common decency, respect for others basic and written rights, trust in government, presumption of innocence and hope for a better future for our children and security for ourselves?

Are you asking, “Where is this all going?” Take a close look at Minneapolis today … for your answer. Yes, we had and maybe still have a tenuous “good thing going” but unless those, including us, “We the People” of the U.S. and our elected representatives in Washington (are you watching, reading and listening, Mr. Bergman?) are prepared to risk ourselves, our apathetic comfort and our destructive disconnect to keep it, we are going to lose it.