Can something actually be DONE about the current USPS slowdown?
I've heard state attorneys general and others talk about lawsuits, which sounds like the responses to so many other illegal and/or unconstitutional actions by Trump, when lawsuits did not result in timely resolutions. I cannot imagine that lawsuits in this case would actually cause a remediation of the problem by the time people will be sending in their ballots.
So are we stuck in a scenario in which mail in voting is throttled, causing direct disenfranchisement, along with massively long lines at the polls that would effectively cause a lot more disenfranchisement? Will we be left with "Well....if Trump had not throttled the mail, followed by massive legal actions to prohibit the counting of late arriving votes, in concert with Republican officials in battleground states going along with the vote stealing plan, we would have won the election"?
Since Trump's election, we have repeatedly seen us Democrats proclaim our intentions to "go to the streets" to stop any possible upcoming illegal and unconstitutional acts by Trump, followed by those acts being committed by Trump, followed by howls of outrage from Democrats, followed by great crowds NOT "going to the streets", followed by an angry realization by us Democrats that the illegal and/or unconstitutional acts are an unerasable fait accompli.
Right now I'm hoping that Democrats hold strong and force things via the negotiations, but even that probably won't work because even if that were to happen, just like so many times before, Trump and his stooge at the USPS would most likely thumb their noses at Congress and in effect say "Make me!", only to have us give up because of a lack of real power and time.
We did not "go to the streets" when Comey was fired, we did not do it with all the Friday night massacres, and we did not do it when he committed dozens of heretofore unimaginable authoritarian acts. I think our leaders in Congress should publicly call for massive protests that would not be stopped until Trump and his USPS stooge relent.
Isn't it finally time to actually rise up against this attempted fascist power grab? Trump won't stop on his own. Right now, it seems like it's us or nothing.
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