Smart Billboard manipulator Taylor Swift took a break from political robbery at the end of July to release her new album Folklore, but just before she expressed her support for Protestants of Black Lives Matter and Join the call to demolish America’s dumbest, ugliest, and most racist monuments. Now Taylor Swift has gone political again, and she uses her Twitter page to suggest that her followers participate in a controversial form of political subterfuge called “vote.” Apparently, this “vote” could be a way to bring down Donald Trump, and to ensure that this plan is as successful as possible, Swift even wants her fans to vote early by asking post-in-ballots.
Of course, Trump is actively trying to undermine this approach by dismantling the USPS not-so-quietly, theoretically making it harder for mail-in-votes to collect and count, with his administration facing accusations of withholding billions of dollars in USPS funding simply because Trump is ready to do anything to steal the upcoming elections. Anyway, you probably already know all about this game, because this USPS drama has been big news for a while, but Taylor Swift tweeting about it is a great way to keep it in the public consciousness and maybe get the attention attracting people who may not follow politics otherwise – although, as is increasingly the case, Taylor Swift-fan needs some level of political commitment.
A pessimist can point out that there is only so much that anyone can do, even if they are Taylor Swift, because we have given our elected officials stupid instructions on trivial things like … ensure that elections happen, run the post, and prevent political figures from trying to get in the way of one of those important processes for the sake of their own unsatisfactory greed. But hey, things like Taylor Swift asking her Twitter followers to vote early can’t hurt, so it’s cool. Who knows, maybe things will work out.
[via The Hollywood Reporter]
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