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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Reality is, nobody's talking about "destroying" the post office, except those engaging in hyperbole & histrionics.  The USPS has been scaling back for years.  Snail mail is going the way of the land line telephone.  It's called progress.  Now, some have decided we absolutely MUST conduct our voting by mail -- as if we cannot safely go to a polling place &  vote.  We go out, and with appropriate caution, go to grocery stores, pharmacies, attend political rallies & protests, go to home supply stores, liquor stores, gun shops, beauty salons & barber shops, physician & dentist offices, etc., etc.  Those with special needs:  absentee ballots have been available since the Civil War.    But the screeching & screaming will continue, as if the nation's very existence depends on mail-in voting.[/quote]

Are you actually trying to claim that postal service has not been impacted by these moves and that the timing is completely coincidental?  Despite, Trump himself explicitly saying that he is trying to slow down the mail because he thinks mail in voting is bad for his re-election chances?

Are you really also saying that we should vote in person only?  If so, why?  It's one thing to say that in person voting can be done safely.  It's quite another thing to say that we must vote in person regardless of safety.  Unfortunately, that second point is what you are actually arguing.  Sure, there are steps that can be taken to make in person voting as safe as going to the grocery store.  Even that's not close to 100% safe but whatev.  But what's happening is that some states want to minimize potential safety risks and the federal government is trying to sabotage that effort.[/quote]

No, PP is saying that it's the height of stupidity to push for mail-in-voting 2.5 months out from a Presidential election.  If Democrats wanted safe, secure mail-in voting, they should have taken it up as an issue back when they had the Presidency and Congress.  They didn't.  As such, you can't whine about it now.  Well, you can whine, but the rest of us won't care.[/quote]

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