by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
I can’t predict the future. So, there is every reason to believe that I’m wrong and somehow we’ll punt the severe, existential problems that the nation faces down the road one more election cycle. And, yet, as I have been ranting about for some time now, it definitely SEEMS as though at some point in late 2024, early 2025 we will face the existential choice of autocracy or civil war.
Either we just shrug and slide peacefully into a MAGA-themed autocracy that will cause 1 million smug, wealthy liberals to flee the country or the most powerful nation in the world collapses into some sort of civil war. If it’s civil war, it could go either way, with either Reds leaving the Union because Trump loses or Blues leaving because he wins.
I believe this because on a systemic basis, the Republican Party has radicalized to the point that it could be that the passions of the 2024 election will simply be too much for the country and we collapse into a French Revolution-style event that would cause unprecedented instability across the globe.
All the signs are there, but as I have said before, it could be that we peacefully transition from our current anocracy into a full blown autocracy. Many, many smug wealthy liberals who could otherwise fight the autocrat will simply flee the country for the four corners of the globe.
But I still just don’t know what is going to happen. And, it could turn out that somehow, miraculously, we manage to not only avoid electing a fascist Republican in 2024 but fascist Republicans choke and don’t decide to leave the Union in a pique of secessionist fury.
I suppose it’s possible.
