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Letter: I fear for America

(Rick Bowmer | AP photo)

People gather during the "Save the Post Office" rally Saturday, Aug. 22, 2020, in Salt Lake City. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy is declaring it's his "sacred duty" to ensure election mail delivery this fall.

(Rick Bowmer | AP photo) People gather during the "Save the Post Office" rally Saturday, Aug. 22, 2020, in Salt Lake City. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy is declaring it's his "sacred duty" to ensure election mail delivery this fall.

I'm sick, from chemotherapy and radiation treatments.

I'm far more sick — actually heartsick — over President Trump's unconscionable dismantling the U.S. Postal Service amid a pandemic and on the eve of the most pivotal election of my lifetime. It's a desperate act more akin to that of a two-bit banana republic dictator than the leader of America and the free world.

If he succeeds in corrupting the ballot box, I fear for the survival of America as we know her.

Lance S. Gudmundsen, Salt Lake City

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