by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
I really hate violence. I’m a man of peace. I’m a man of ideas. So, I would rather we slip peacefully into autocracy than have a the clusterfuck that would be a Second Civil War. Having said that, given how the MAGA New Right is chomping at the bit to murder people like me under the guise of civil war, the consequences of such a high risk, high reward situation are something we need to think about if only in the abstract.
The thing about the United States right now is there’s no accountability for Trump. He’s above the law, even not being president. He’s a king without a kingdom. And, but for fuck old and deranged he is, he would be the guy who turned the United States into something akin to Nazi Germany. He really is that bad, if so amazingly incompetent that he could never pull it off without a lot of help.
The only way there will ever be any accountability for Trumplandia is a civil war where Blue States are victorious. That’s it. Otherwise, either Trump and his toadies are a linger existential crisis that just won’t go away, or we slip into some form of autocracy.
I really — and I mean — REALLY don’t want a civil war of any sort.
But the macro tends at the moment in the United States definitely seem to indicate that a civil war is one of two existential choices we’re going to have no later than late 2024 – early 2025.
If we had a Second Civil War and Blue States won — and that’s the critical aspect of it all — then there might be some sort of Truth & Reconciliation Commission that would, at last, give us some accountability for Trumplandia.
But talk about high risk, high reward.
