Editor, OBSERVER:

I would like to commend the OBSERVER for its Dec. 30 editorial regarding Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene. It appears that politicians on both sides of the aisle are ever more focused on maintaining power and influence in Congress, rather than preserving our democracy.

If the extreme views of Greene and others like her continue to grow unchecked, then we the people of the United States will have closed our eyes to a dangerous and mounting threat. We must take their extreme political and religious views — and unsubstantiated conspiratorial ideas — at face value for the threat that they are. We must reject them with our voices and our votes and not bury our heads in the sand.

Let our elected officials know that we are paying attention. Let them know that we demand the continued separation of church and state that this country was founded upon.

We do not want to amplify voices like Rep. Greene’s in Congress or give them safe harbor.

They do not represent the majority, and God help us if they ever do.

I am reminded of Ezekiel 12:2: “…thou dwellest in the midst of a rebellious house, which have eyes to see, and see not; they have ears to hear, and hear not: for they are a rebellious house.”

LEO PATTERSON,

Fredonia