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The News Media Needs to Get Its Programming Together or We Will All Be Saluting Trump in January 2021

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Written by Leonard   
Saturday, 15 August 2020 10:09

The Trump imposed US Post Office Crisis and its impact on the November 3 election is our number one short term problem right now.  Business as usual by the Congress and the News Media will likely cause a loss of millions of Democratic votes in November.  The News Media needs to focus much more on solutions to the Postal Crisis and learn to ignore the daily diversions thrown out by Trump and the Republican Party.  For example, the Covid19 Pandemic more than justifies voting by absentee and mail ballots to protect the health of all American voters.

The cable news media needs to bring many more experts to their programming who can propose new, creative, legal processes for timely ballot distribution and collection, not just pundits who verify how unethical and despicable Trump’s attacks are on current voting mechanisms.  Trump hopes his slowdown of the usual USPS ballot distribution and collection processes, state voter roll suppression, particularly in urban centers and swing states, and numerous courtroom judicial actions (most on the basis of phony voter fraud claims) that interfere and delay legal voting practices...all acts of voter suppression...will enable him to win the November 3 election.

I watched CNN and MSNBC  this morning and found the following topics discussed over a 1½ hour period: A Kamala Harris birther discussion, the upcoming VP debate,  Medicare for All, Trump’s attack on the USPS (Romney), promotion of the upcoming CNN Electoral College Program, Sharks (the ocean kind), black men as a voting bloc, Lebron James’ activities, Covid19 testing decreases, The Covid Open Forum, Harris’ Birther Issue (Kushner), Food distribution and shortages in Georgia, Opening Schools, in person vs internet based learning, the Defense Protection Act, School Nurse shortages, increasing Covid19 infection rates in the US,...

All of these topics are important but few of them will have much impact  if Trump and the Republican Senate illegally remain in power after the November 3 election.  The News Media, as the Fourth Estate, has the responsibility of informing and demanding that our State governments immediately find new, tamper-proof,  legal solutions to efficient ballot distribution, collection and counting.  So far today, no one was interviewed who had suggestions on how to provide legal, fast, supplemental ballot distribution and collection processes to avoid the “vote by mail” bottlenecks being imposed on the USPS by Trump, his new Postmaster General and the Republican Party.

The media might consider conducting an online  “open voting forum” to identify individuals who have creative suggestions on legal, low cost, efficient ballot distribution and collection processes as supplements to the now reduced capabilities of the USPS. These ideas need to immediately be transmitted to the Democratic and Swing State Governors and their Election Officials for swift actions to be taken at the State level to guarantee efficient processing of ballot distribution and collection. You can bet that Trump and his Republican Party are working closely with Republican Governors and Election Officials on voter suppression by multiple means, including  impeding mail-in-ballots, especially in their urban centers.

We can no longer wait for a bill that contains enough support for the USPS to be approved by the US Congress.  In fact, let’s get real, Mitch and the majority of Republicans believe that delaying such a bill, as long as possible, improves the Republican President’s, Senator’s and Representative’s chances for winning a “rigged”-by-Republicans-election on November 3.  This unbelievable, highly visible Republican conspiracy of asking all their supporters to vote “in person,” while they launch multiple attacks on “vote by mail,” when polls indicate this is how as many as 70% of Democrats intend to vote, demands immediate actionable responses by all the Democratic Governors, their State Election Officials, the US Congress and the US News Media in order to protect one of the most important components of our democracy...the right of every citizen to vote and have their vote counted in a fair election.

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