Donald Trump has tweeted that November’s US Presidential Election should be postponed due to concern over postal voting. He has of course no authority to do this but that isnt usually a bar to him making a point.
Presumably he has in mind ‘The Solution’ a poem Bertolt Brecht wrote after the 1953 East German Uprising where he noted that the Government had lost confidence in the people and would indeed to elect a new one:
After the uprising of the 17th June
The Secretary of the Writers Union
Had leaflets distributed in the Stalinallee
Stating that the people
Had forfeited the confidence of the government
And could win it back only
By redoubled efforts. Would it not be easier
In that case for the government
To dissolve the people
And elect another?
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