Let me say up front that unlike many people, I am a big fan of the United States Postal Service. Really. These folks work hard, the price to send mail is still relatively cheap, and they are (mostly) pleasant people to work with.
Congress seems to have made it their mission over the last few years to do away with the post office. The laws they've passed have made it unable to compete in the global shipping market. They enacted the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act (PAEA) which "requires the Postal Service, which receives no taxpayer subsidies, to pre-fund its retirees' health benefits up to the year 2056."
This link from 2018 gives a quick overview of the insanity:
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-04-04/congress-not-amazon-messed-up-the-u-s-postal-service
As everyone who pays attention knows, the GOP hates the American voter. Or to be specific, they hate voters who will vote against their party. Instead of trying to woo voters to their way of thinking, Republicans have done whatever they can to suppress Americans' right to vote. For example, they've:
Congress seems to have made it their mission over the last few years to do away with the post office. The laws they've passed have made it unable to compete in the global shipping market. They enacted the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act (PAEA) which "requires the Postal Service, which receives no taxpayer subsidies, to pre-fund its retirees' health benefits up to the year 2056."
This link from 2018 gives a quick overview of the insanity:
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-04-04/congress-not-amazon-messed-up-the-u-s-postal-service
As everyone who pays attention knows, the GOP hates the American voter. Or to be specific, they hate voters who will vote against their party. Instead of trying to woo voters to their way of thinking, Republicans have done whatever they can to suppress Americans' right to vote. For example, they've:
- Instituted gerrymandering to give Republicans more seats in the House
- Blocked every initiative to implement automatic voter registration
- Thwarted any attempts at setting aside a national voting holiday
- Fought to illegally purge voter rolls
- Implemented other tactics to prevent voting or harass voters
Now, Trump comes along, and with the Republicans in the Senate, didn't include funding for the USPS in the first pandemic emergency bill and doesn't plan to in the second. Why?
Simply put, there's a push by major voter groups to pass a national vote-by-mail initiative. Considering that November is not all that far away, it makes sense to keep people away from the polls if at all possible.
Vote-by-mail is something that currently works in some of the states, including my own (Arizona), and it works well! Vote-by-mail almost ensures more people will vote and the Republicans (and Trump) have admitted that would be bad for their party.
Let me repeat that: the GOP wants fewer people to vote because it would be disadvantageous to them. They realize that if all eligible adults voted, they would be wiped out because the majority of Americans know they're horrible.
Why else would they want to suppress the vote? There is no legitimate reason I can think of.
Of course, they lie and say voter fraud is more likely, which we know is a lot of garbage because if they carried about that, they would be doing something to prevent Russia from influencing our elections this time around.
They are so desperate to hold power they're willing to lie, cheat, steal, and intimidate to make sure that happens. And Trump, the most corrupt president to be elected in American history, wants to remain in his taxpayer-funded retirement home, complete with multi-million dollar golf outings, free private planes everywhere, and 24/7 security.
This is the America we've become, ladies and gentlemen. This is an embarrassment.
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