Forward Kentucky: Our democracy needs saving – a clarion call
By GUEST AUTHOR
American history is replete with warnings of impending disaster that went unheeded: Pearl Harbor, 9/11, and more recently the climate crisis, Covid-19, and 1/6.
Now comes another warning, a “Statement of Concern” (June 1, 2021) from more than 100 authorities on democracy who tell us that the Republicans’ war on elections — their refusal to accept the 2020 results and their blatant actions at every level of government to prevent legitimate voting — “call into question whether the United States will remain a democracy.” The scholars condemn this “betrayal of our precious democratic heritage.”