by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
It definitely seems as though the United States is going to slip peacefully into autocracy in broad daylight. If it’s not the complete corruption of the administration of elections by Steve Bannon’s “spiritual shock troops” involved in his “administrative coup,” then it will be the nullification of any election of a Democrat by Congressional Republicans for the rest of our lives.
Now, this raises the question of what the reaction of the average person will be when this happens. Will they just shrug and roll over as the fucking fascist MAGA New Right cocksuckers consolidate power, or will I be surprised and we won’t transition peacefully into autocracy at all? Will the throttling of our 240 year old democracy simply be too brazen for that to happen?
At the moment, I just don’t know.
But let’s assume that Bannon’s plot works and we simply shrug. Then what?
Well, form follows function and once the connection between the governed and the government no longer exists, it’s only a matter of time before the media is purged, ICE is weaponized and people like me start to mysteriously die because I just won’t shut the fuck up about what a fucking cocksucker President Mike Pompeo is.
But there would be consequences to this consolidation of power. Center Left would soon begin to simply vote with their feet, leaving the United States behind. This “brain drain” would happen until it got so bad that America’s autocrat would move to make it nearly impossible for anyone to get a passport and to leave the country. Form follows function.
Before that happened, however, enough upper middle class liberals would leave the country to make a huge difference in nations across the globe. It’s easy to imagine Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Great Britain and any number of European nations taking in millions of disillusioned Americans and reaping huge economic and social rewards.
One nation that might see a huge economic and societal change as wealthy center-Left Americans scramble to leave the United States is the Philippines. It’s got great climate, has a historical connection to the United States, cheap living and the room to accommodate a few million Americans. They would all telecommute to the States and might, just might, single handedly bootstrap the nation out of its current third-world status.
I often wonder where Hollywood would re-locate under this scenario. I think it would be somewhere like Perth. From my personal experience, people from Perth are really creative and interesting and even though it’s in the middle of nowhere, it seems within the realm of possibility that the Hollywood community might re-locate to that city once the United States finally drifts into autocracy.
But all of that is very speculative. At the moment, it’s possible it could go either way, that we either have a civil war or we slip peacefully into autocracy. Only time will tell.
