Having spent most of 2013-2017 in states that voted Red, I can tell you:— James Fallows (@JamesFallows) August 2, 2020
Literally no one there was thinking, “Yeah, what I’d really like is to destroy the US postal system.”
In important ways, the Post Office is America. (Just ask Ben Franklin.)
I understand the cranks who think competition will win the day, and the state will wither away except for the DOD (an arm of corporate America; Ike was right to warn us) and a police force to keep the browns and blacks and non-cooperative whites ("white trash" no matter their socio-economic level) in line.
Their thinking is the same strategy as the white supremacists who think it only needs the right spark to start the race war in America which will purge this company of all non-whites and the whites who "love" them (you know the phrase I mean, if you're of the right age).
But destroying the Postal System makes about as much sense as defunding Social Security and Medicare/Medicaid. One part of that we starve already, but try getting rid of it. Kind of like public libraries; who needs 'em, except we all do. I still mail cards (not just at Xmas) and still receive packages in the mail (not just UPS). Everybody does. Destroying the postal service makes as much sense as destroying physical phone lines; or public swimming pools.
These people are cranks. They will do more damage in the next six months, but we have to remove them expeditiously, and see that the damage they have done is repaired.
And frankly, if you're gonna vote by mail, do it as early as you can. The country you save may be your own.
Coming from a small town, knowing how small businesses operate, if they want the economy to tank faster they'll screw up the mail service. I doubt they've had any idea that will be one of the effects of this, though I doubt Trump would care if it did.
ReplyDeleteIf there's one thing this does IF Democrats regain control, it's given them a golden opportunity to totally restructure the USPS to heal the damage done to it by Republicans going back to Nixon. First thing to do is get rid of that tumor implanted when the Republican-fascists made absurd demands of how their pension system was to be funded in order to cripple it for UPS and FEDEX.