Why should Democrats write-in Joe Biden in the NH Democratic primary? To defend our democracy from Trump, who has promised to be “dictator on day one” and to abuse the Dept. of Justice for personal vengeance, and from Republican Party leaders, who cravenly enable this march to end our freedoms. Democracy is not a spectator sport. We protect our democracy by participating in it, and we do that by voting. When we don’t vote, others choose for us, and those others may make choices we consider catastrophic to our freedoms. By writing-in Joe Biden, we endorse the achievements of an effective president who, with a razor-thin majority, managed to enact vital legislation to address climate change, poverty, and gun violence, to invest in infrastructure nation-wide, and to bring manufacturing supply chains home.

Reelecting Biden will stop Trump from destroying our democracy, and then imposing a host of disastrous policies most Americans oppose like a national abortion ban, a weakening of Social Security, and repeal of the health care law. If reelected, Trump will destabilize the world and endanger our national security by cozying up to the world’s dictators, including the murderous Putin, and deliver Ukraine to Russia on a platter, encouraging China to invade Taiwan and Russia to invade more countries. Democracy or dictatorship. That is the choice we face. In 1789, Benjamin Franklin said we had a democracy if we could keep it. Voting for Joe Biden on Jan. 23 is the first step toward keeping it.

Susan Mayer

Lee