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I wrote this in response to a comment concerned about shutting down the USPS before midterm elections, but the comment I was responding to is now dead so I'm po
by mindslight 7mo ago
I wrote this in response to a comment concerned about shutting down the USPS before midterm elections, but the comment I was responding to is now dead so I'm posting top-level:
I don't think Biden really undid the America-last saboteurs that Grump installed in his first term, so they've had plenty of time to make themselves at home. The obvious play is to selectively hold back ballots based on the prognostications of the Party's surveillance databases (including voter roll data extorted from states). Presumably even if they're caught, they'll claim federal immunity from state laws about election tampering - the same as they've done in every other instance where they've blatantly attacked states.
So it probably makes sense to show up to the polls in person. If you're worried about possibly facing intimidation from ICE (SS) and the Poor Boys (SA), it makes sense to send in your ballot and then show up in person to the polls anyway to make sure they've got you down as already having voted.
As far as the USPS's problem itself, the obvious answer is to repeal the legislation intended to strangle it with debt, and simply fund it like any other public infrastructure. We don't see articles about highways needing to shutdown because they're unable to take on more debt. Rather we recognize their existence generates diffuse hard-to-account-for value and fund them with public money.