Why won’t the Democrats act more aggressively?

Lamentations of a liberal

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So now the Post office is under attack. Snail mail has turned downright sluggish, to quote a local business journal. As if it weren’t already hard enough to do business in the current economy. Now, businesses and citizens have to contend with bags of mail sitting undelivered in our post offices.

In our own lives, we have been affected by the slowdown of the post office. My wife receives a monthly check that used to arrive by the second day of the month like clockwork. This month, it arrived the 13th day of the month, a full ten days after it was sent. And this is for a letter coming from a city just a few miles down the street. As my wife said, “I could have walked there faster.”

Fortunately for us, we don’t rely on the mail as some others do. We don’t rely upon it for the delivery of medicines, for example, most of our income is deposited directly into our accounts, and we pay most of our bills electronically. Most of our communications are via email or skype. In some ways, then, we are symptomatic of the problems facing the post office: people just don’t use the mail like they used to. But others are not so lucky.

Ironically, what prompted the slowdown of our post office is Trump’s fear of a flood of mailed-in ballots voting him out of office…