Letters to The Editor: August 28-September 3, 2025

The Editor:

Here’s another opportunity to learn from history before we repeat it, and perhaps add a few new words to our vocabulary. By looking up the definitions, it might help to wake us up.

America in 2025, once a proud democracy and republic with a vibrant Constitution, is well on its way to becoming a fascist theocracy run by an oligarchy. In fact, recently the President manipulated a 9.9 percent purchase of Intel with U.S. funds, thus officially joining the ranks of China, North Korea and Russia as governments who also control industry. That’s one of the definitions of fascism.

There’s a few more examples from history, but there are so many to choose from. Fortunately, none of them were successful, and a great many people died to get rid of them. Let’s begin with the Spanish Inquisition in 1184 and all of the following inquisitions around the world that mostly ended in Rome in 1908. Now let’s turn to Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945, and we all know how that ended. How about Russia, either during the Czar’s time or up to and including Putin. And let’s not forget the kings and queens of Europe and Great Britain.

Remember, we fought the American Revolution to get free of that fascist theocracy run by an oligarchy called royalty.

And now to our House, Senate and Supreme Court, all of which have become courtiers to the self-crowned king of the United States. As a historical reminder to their behavior, let's look at the United Kingdom’s Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and his appeasement of the Nazis up until 1940 when he was replaced by Winston Churchill. And then came WWII, partly because Chamberlain did not stand up to the Nazis.

Write to your congress people, march in protest, write letters to the editor, stand up to the people who want to destroy the Constitution for their own personal gain, greed and power. As Franklin D. Roosevelt said, “We have nothing to fear but fear itself.”

Please, do not let America go into the Guinness World Records as the largest banana republic in the history of the world. I hope it’s not too late to save our Constitution and our personal freedom from tyranny.

Ronald Snyder

Blaine