Uh-oh. Trump is hearing voices again.

And the voices are telling him to do something truly stupid. As he puts it, “There is a lot of talk about the Postal Service being taken private,” adding that “It’s an idea that a lot of people have liked for a long time.”

Hmmm, I haven’t heard even one voice say our phenomenal public mail service should be privatized. Indeed, it is a widely popular government agency because it works for everyone – rich and poor, urban and rural.

When he claims that “a lot of people” like the idea of postal privatization how many? Six? Six million? And what kind of people? Working stiffs, poor people, rural residents… who? He gives a coded answer to that when he refers to the Post Office being “taken” private. Oh? Taken by whom? Of course – by the corrupt profiteering billionaires who funded Trump. Their business plan is to have him hand the agency to them in the name of instituting “corporate efficiency” – meaning the privateers will go to three-day mail delivery, cut-off service to unprofitable poor and rural communities, raise prices, and fire legions of experienced postal workers.

They’re out to steal an essential public treasure, but they’re also trying to censor opposition to their political control of government. The Postal Service was created in 1792 in part to prevent royalists and oligarchs from controlling communications. If you think that’s not a problem in modern America, reflect on the blunt media censorship being imposed right now by Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, and other petty potentates of corporate plutocracy.

To learn more, visit the American Postal Workers Union: apwu.org.

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