by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
Something wicked this way comes. We’ve officially entered the danger zone on a macro basis when it comes to the stability of the United States. A wide range of things could happen starting now that could cause Red States to leave the Union in a collective huff. (I still believe that any civil war directly caused by Red Constitutional shenanigans in 2024 – 2025 will lead Blue States to bounce.)
The point is — I’m on edge. And I’m likely to be on edge from now until whatever clusterfuck happens in 2024 – 2025. I don’t think enough people appreciate how awful things are going to get as part of the 2024 presidential cycle.
The United States is an anocracy and, as such, the final step will be either a peaceful slip into full-blown autocracy or a civil war. And it’s not going to be any type of rolling political violence like Barbara F. Walters thinks — it’s going to be a battle royale based on the state level.
If there is a civil war — and God forbid there is one — WMD will be used extensively and millions upon millions will die. The political map of North America will be rewritten as well. Either with a forced union of Canada and the United States or some sort of split in the United States between Trumplandia and the US of Canada.
I’m also on edge because all that has to happen for something closer to Ms. Walters civil war scenario to happen would be Trump shuffling off this mortal coil in his sleep. The MAGA New Right base is so primed to believe he was knocked off by the Deep State that THAT would be when we would have something akin to The Troubles.
They say you go bankrupt gradually then all at once and I think that’s America’s fate. We’re just about to end the “gradually” phase. We’ve just about entered the “all at once” part. I don’t know what it will look like, but being an expat in South Korea for a few years taught me a lot about how to survive in a crisis and the United States is now in a severe years-long political crisis which will either implode — autocracy or explode, civil war.
And, again, I honestly have no idea what you can do to protect yourself. I hate guns and violence. But I do believe in ideas. And I would suggest you figure out what ideas are your True North and what you’re willing to suffer for or fight for when the time comes.
The rest will take care of itself, I guess.
