by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
It definitely seems as though Something Bad is going to happen starting in late 2024, early 2025. And, yet, I said pretty much the same thing in 2019 and, in the end, we managed to punt America’s problems down the road another election cycle — with the help of Mike Pence.
With that in mind, I keep wondering if I’m missing something. Is it possible, just possible, that something really unexpected might happen so we yet again thread the needle and go a third way whereby we don’t have a civil war / revolution and we don’t turn into an autocracy?
At the moment, I just don’t see any such third way happening.
It seems to me that this what is going to happen — Trump becomes the nominee, wins and we either have a revolution or turn into a full-blown autocracy. Or Trump loses and we have a civil war. Those SEEM to be all the options we have at the moment.
And, really, I think the thing we have to understand is we’re going to probably turn into Magadonia / Trumplandia and that will be that. We will do so peacefully and without any struggle. About 1 million (at least) smug, wealthy liberals will flee the country and we’ll not-so-slowly begin to drift towards being Russia on a political basis.
At the moment, that seems what is going to happen.
But I suppose it’s possible that we might go the revolution / civil war route — not that I want such a thing to happen. But it is, in fact, possible. Very possible. The conditions are there, at least, for it to happen.
