Now the postal worker thing, since Mark asked.
Consider what has actually damaged this scheme in the past week. Not a resolution, not a demonstration, not a brief. A postal insider documented what the system does to real mail and handed it to counsel. That disclosure is now the evidentiary spine of the press coverage, the Senate demand, and the litigation. One employee with access to the process accomplished more in a week than the organized left has managed all year.
That is the entire content of the proposal. Not that letter carriers will strike against the Portal. That members handle this mail, will see the returned batches before anyone outside the building does, and are the only people positioned to say what happened, where, and on whose instruction, while it is still happening.
The timing is the argument. The failure does not occur on November 3. It occurs in late September and October, while ballots are being mailed and rejected batches sit in state offices. By election night the disenfranchisement is complete. A strategy that waits for the streets is a strategy that arrives after the event. The demonstration Charles expects will be a demonstration about something specific, or it will be a mood, and what it is about will have been documented by somebody in September or not at all.
Charles's fourth point I take, and it concedes more than he intends. If reformists and communists are working the same terrain here, then the clause about capitalism is not what distinguishes the position. What distinguishes it is whether anyone we can name is in a position to do anything by October.
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