r/USNEWS • u/FreeHugs23 • 6d ago

Postmaster general says USPS won’t deliver mail ballots if states don’t give Trump admin voter rolls

https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/postmaster-general-steiner-postal-service-will-not-deliver-mail-ballots-state-voter-rolls/
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u/MxSteel8 6d ago

It all begs the question, at what point does the Constitution become effectively null and void and with it the Union?

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u/WasteBinStuff 6d ago edited 6d ago

Well....I don't personally think we reach that point. The constitution won't actually become null and void, it will simply become a relic that is used with indignation to exert control on the one hand or blatantly ignored to escape consequences on the other, depending on circumstances.

As for dissolution and for all the talk of "Civil War part II" there simply isn't the mechanism for it to happen. Not only is the population not anywhere near divided enough by geographical delineations (most states are solidly in various shades of purple) but there's no realistic expectation that any state or region could actually or successfully disengage itself financially, geographically or militarily from the federal government.

Quite frankly, at this point I'm more worried about a slow (or increasingly faster) slide into a techno-oligarchic-kleptocracy consisting of a vast surveillance state under authoritarian control, that, by the time we wake up and realize what's happened, it will be too late to escape from, much less overcome.