Why We Must Continue to Fight
Fight now, while you can. Fight now, while the cost is less than it will be if you must fight later. Fight now, before your grandchildren have to.
by Rod D. Martin
November 27, 2020
I wrote this a moment ago, to a dear friend who knows who she is. I thought I should share it with you.
We are not fighting to save one candidate in one election. We are fighting to save the possibility of free elections.
Nor are we merely facing the possibility of victory by crooks who broadly share our beliefs but are willing to cheat to take power. We are facing the triumph of people who openly tell us they mean to upend every aspect of our Constitutional system, every portion of our Bill of Rights. This is what they say when they're out of power: imagine what they'll do once they hold it, once they've eliminated every possibility of being dislodged.
Our Republic is hanging by a thread. And I say it that way because it’s not our country but our system that is in danger. America itself will not be lost. But if we lose the Republic, we’ll discover what it was to transition from the Roman Republic to the Roman Empire. The forms will be maintained, but the…