My witness in this election

I do not expect that my views on the upcoming election will sway any voters one way or the other, but I still feel called to witness to what I know:

I know that Joe Biden is our legitimately-elected president. I know that the evidence is all on my side in this regard, and that Mr. Trump’s party’s embrace of his “Big Lie” is a direct threat to our democracy. I know those who control today’s Republican Party would lead us to one-party, authoritarian rule, buttressed by an extremely distorted version of Christianity. 

I know that talk of “Civil War” comes from people who fear they cannot get what they want through the legitimate processes of our democracy because what they want is not the will of the majority of our people.

I know that white supremacists should have no seats in our halls of government 

I know that the pursuit of truth about such matters as race, history, sexuality, and science, must not be constrained by politics and political power.

I know that fear—of others or of one another—in no way to make a nation “great."

I know that Liz Cheney is right when she says, “If you care about democracy and you care about the survival of our republic, then you need to understand—we all have to understand—that we cannot give people power who have told us that they will not honor elections