by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
I get really frustrated when people search for “Second American Revolution” and endup at this site because there’s a big difference between a “revolution” and a “civil war.” The two are similar and may happen in tandem, but we’re a whole lot more likely to have a civil war soon than we are a revolution. I think I may be overly pedantic with that pet peeve, but I still have it.
Anyway, I have long said that our political system is so fragile at the moment that Something Bad will happen if there’s just a little bit extra pressure applied on it.
Well, we’re careening towards that type of pressure being applied to it with the existential game of chicken that Congressional Republicans are now playing with our economy. This happens all the time, I know but this time is different because Republicans have grown so radicalized that they would rather destroy the economy than in any way work on a bi-partisan basis.
As such, there’s a pretty good chance that we won’t raise the debt ceiling because of Republican assholery and the US — and global — economy will take a significant blow to the gut.
Here’s where things get interesting — given how fucked up everything is in the United States otherwise, would a severe economic downturn caused by the Republicans being fucking assholes be enough to incite the glorious “2021 revolution” that so many fucking cocksucker New Right assholes seem to crave.
That is a very good question.
My first reaction is, no. It would probably cause a lot more instability in the United States, but the MAGA New Right, for all their bluster about how much they want to murder people like me in cold blood, are actually — to date — a bunch of fucking snowflake crybabies.
Sure, there is a small minority of them that actually are willing to engage in political violence, but, over all, their impotent cocksuckers with small dicks. They talk a good talk, but when push comes to shove, they retreat to their bullshit echo chamber and whine about cancel culture.
That’s on an individual basis. On a systemic basis, things are lot different. The Republican Establishment, a whole, is now so radicalized and fascist that when the opportunity comes, they may very well start a civil war by pulling states out of the Union. But I struggle to see how, even with a debt ceiling crisis, how we would have some sort of MAGA New Right “revolution” where good old boys grabbed their guns and murdered people like me en masse as part of a popular uprising.
The cocksuckers just don’t have it in them.
So, as of now, my worst case scenario is we don’t raise the debt ceiling, the world economy crashes and the Republicans see huge gains in Congress in 2022. They turn around and impeach Biden and Harris and as we grow ever-closer to the beginning of the 2024 presidential election cycle, things really begin to grow more and more unstable.
To the point that by late 2024 – early 2025, we either slip peacefully into autocracy, or we bomb ourselves into oblivion by using WMD on ourselves as part of a Second American Civil War.
That, at least, is what I think may happen in the future as of right now.
