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Those involved in insurrection need to be held accountable

To the editor:

We find ourselves in quite a predicament. We have urgent challenges staring us in the face with a dangerously dysfunctional and corrupted government that refuses to address them or put our democratic ideals and the common good ahead of their partisan interests. Why do we tolerate this? Are we not risking ruin? But, there is much I do not understand.

A good part of our country refuses to accept that our democracy is in peril, even though we all witnessed the attack on our Capitol. Add to this the refusal of our GOP to join in finding fact and holding responsible all those involved in the insurrection’s planning and execution. Where are my senators, where is my representative?

It is mind boggling that a good part of our country refuses to accept that the election was not stolen, even though the claim that it was has been, without exception, shown to be baseless.

I also wonder how a good part of our country remains in denial that human caused climate change is real.

To quote Ayn Rand: “The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident that everybody has decided not to see.”

Thomas Knapp

Fort Dodge

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