Letters to the editor: Political tinkering must stop

Here we go again. We don’t need draconian measures to “fix” the postal service. What we need is to quit voting for Republicans until they sign a pledge to give up their harebrained schemes to privatize it. The postal service has worked well for 200 years, and it would be just fine yet, if the political tinkering just stopped. Before we insist on the postal service making a profit, we should insist that the armed forces should. Maybe the Air Force could start taking passengers, and the Navy could give cruises. I’m not sure what the Army could do — maybe enlisted men could be rented out to do KP at local restaurants while the officers in their snazzy uniforms could work as doormen.

When I was young, the Republican party was a place for reasonable conservatives. They may have had different ideas on how to provide the best life for American citizens compared to Democrats, but we could depend on the fact that they had the best interests of the country at heart. Since the election of Donald Trump, more and more of these reasonable conservatives have been leaving the party. Many have gone on to join the Democrats, to the detriment of both parties. In the meantime, every person who has begun investigating the president or his business associates has been fired. These are clearly not the actions of an innocent man.

Kenneth L. Johnson, Cloquet