Yes, the COVID-19 pandemic is our nation’s number one concern but, despite lack of timely, intelligent administrative leadership and refusers to adopt safety protocols, we will (one day) be successful in its defeat. It’s not optional.
Yes, the Black Lives Matter movement is creating a greater urgency to more fully address still persisting minority inequalities and policing reevaluations.
And yes, climate change is real with growing consequences of delayed inaction leading to irreversible forced reduced quality of life adaptations for future generations.
But most urgent in the next two and half months is the repair and, where necessary, the upgrade of our U.S. Postal Service, openly degraded by our desperate president, who is only focused on his reelection.
It is truly outrageous that the very fabric of our republic’s foundation of fair and open elections is being sabotaged by the one elected official whose primary oath of office was to uphold our constitutional rights for all citizens.
With COVID’s impact, the opportunity for voting by mail will be essential to make sure the right to exercise our most fundamental privilege as U.S. citizens is not unlawfully compromised.
If he hadn’t already, he just crossed the line.
Peter R. Finn, Murray
