Republican Party: Dictatorship of the wealthy; End of Democracy

updated 2020-08-12
President Donald Trump once again openly admitted that increasing access to the ballot poses a dire threat to the Republican Party’s ability to win elections.
“Trump and his Republican administration is sabotaging the election through his continued politicization of the postal service.”
Stopping funds for USPS and mail-in voting, Trump said, “means you can’t have universal mail-in voting because they’re not equipped to have it.”
“Trump again brags he’s destroying the post office to sabotage voting and rig the election.” – Rep. Bill Pascrell, (N.J.)

example:
Trump wrote “Nevada’s clubhouse governor made it impossible for Republicans to win the state,” referring to the Nevada State Senate’s passage Sunday of legislation that would send every active registered voter a mail-in ballot ahead of the November elections.
[To wreck-stop a free and open election] Trump’s administration, critics warn, is currently attempting to sabotage and undermine the U.S. Postal Service.
If everyone can vote, Republicans will loose:
“Using Covid to steal the state,” the president added. “See you in Court!”

“Trump and his allies have always been motivated by partisanship, even at the expense of American lives,” said McCurdy. “That he would threaten Nevada Democrats’ work to protect voting access through a crisis of his own making is both despicable and par for the course. But Democrats will not be intimidated. We stand with Nevadans and will do the necessary work to ensure every eligible voter can participate easily and safely in what will surely be the most important election in a lifetime.”
The Republican National Committee and right-wing advocacy groups are spending millions on lawsuits combating state efforts to expand mail-in ballot access as a safe alternative to in-person voting during the coronavirus pandemic.


www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2020/08/13/trump-admits-to-blocking-usps-postal-service-funding-over-mail-in-voting/#413d022163c5
www.commondreams.org/news/2020/08/03/trump-proclaims-nevada-has-made-it-impossible-gop-win-expanding-voting-rights-during

 

Republicans and Trump wrecking the Post Office to wreck the election
Republican Dictatorship VS. Democracy.

the next election battleground: the post office.

The post office – now run by a Trump donor – is experiencing worrisome backlogs ahead of the November election. “I fear we are bracing for disaster,” says one expert.

The notion of postponing the election appears to be a nonstarter, with lawmakers on both sides of the aisle dismissing the idea. But the president’s more subtle moves could be just as effective in provoking the constitutional crisis he seems bent on dragging the nation into. Earlier this summer, he installed GOP megadonor Louis DeJoy to lead the USPS. The new postmaster general, recasting the embattled agency as more of a business than a service, quickly instituted changes with the purported aim of cutting costs, but that have resulted in mail delays and could, postal service employees warn, spell trouble for the 2020 election.

The new policies – which include ending overtime pay, forcing mail carriers to leave items behind to avoid extra trips, and shutting down sorting machines early—have already led to backlogs, … If the problems persist into November, it could result in delays in processing the record absentee ballots that are expected to be cast in the election—something that could undermine the integrity of the election, and possibly public trust in the results. Given Trump’s anti-democratic attacks on voting, this hardly seems accidental. “Even as we sit here, there are those in power who are doing their darndest to discourage people from voting,” former President Barack Obama said in a rousing eulogy for the late civil rights hero and longtime congressman John Lewis on Thursday. “[They are] attacking our voting rights with surgical precision, even undermining the postal service in the run-up to an election that’s going to be dependent on mail-in ballots so people don’t get sick.”

vanityfair.com/news/2020/07/trumps-postal-service-meddling-could-blow-up-the-election

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