by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
It definitely seems as though the United States has passed the Event Horizon for the existential choice of autocracy or civil war. While I suppose it’s possible we might end up with a military junta, it’s clear that the America we’ve come to assume would always been there is fading fast.
All the conditions are there for a dramatic shift in the political life in what was formerly the wealthiest, most stable democracy in the world. Something’s gotta give. Either we have a civil war and bomb ourselves into oblivion, or Blues bend a knee to fascist tyranny and that, as they say, is that.
At the moment, at least, I just don’t think Blues have it in them to put up much of a fight. There may be a lot of gnashing of teeth as we slip into autocracy, but, in the end, it will all be a lulz. The reason is simple — the people who would be most likely to lead a Blue attempt at a National Divorce, wealthy liberals, are far more likely to just leave the country.
And, what’s more, it’s just not the temperament of Blues to do something so passionate and radical as to leave the Union on the state level. Of course, there remains the wildcard of Trump. He could, on a personal level, cause a civil war one way or another if he either goes transactional or his second term policies are just so radical that he pushes the nation to the breaking point.
But if something happens to Trump politically and, say, Ron DeSantis is the GQP 2024 nominee, then, yeah, we’re just going to become an autocracy. Things like the shift to the Right on the part of CNN will accelerate to the point that we’re all going to have to use the BBC using VPN to know what the fuck is really going on in the country.
Or, put another way, the United States is in transition on a political level and it’s an open question what we’re transitioning into.
