Letter: Look to the founding fathers

To the Editor,

In regard to Liz Cain's viewpoints in the Blackfoot Valley Dispatch, may I quote her? "As a teacher, I should be cautious about letting politics or religion into my class discussions." And "If you don't like my opinion that Trump is damaging our democracy, our allies, and the common man, just ask soybean farmers who have lost 80 percent of their sales to China."

I will give you $100 if you can find the word democracy in the Constitution of the United States. It is clear to me that you have never read the Constitution, and you claim to be a teacher. Sad. How sad!

On educating the people, look to the comments of the founding fathers.

"A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people." James Madison

"A primary object should be the education of our youth in the sciences of government. In a Republic, what species of knowledge can be equally important? And what duty more pressing...than communication it to those who are to be the future guardians of the liberties of the country." George Washington

"Say...whether peace is best preserved by giving energy to the government, or information to the people. This last is the most certain and the most legitimate engine of government. Educate and inform the whole mass of the people. Enable them to see that it is their interest to preserve peace and order, and they will preserve them, and it requires no very high degree of education to convince them of this. They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty." Thomas Jefferson

There is no mention of a democracy in the Constitution.

Mike Dey, Missoula