by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
I’ve written about this potential problem from every possible angle I’ve been able to think up over the last few years, but that doesn’t make the possibility of a certification crisis any less real.
There are a variety of ways it could work out, from micro issues at the local level all the way to macro issues in the House. But the fact remains, like the old saying goes — you go bankrupt gradually then all at once.
In this particular instance, this phrase means that we could all get sucker punched out of the blue when what should happen, doesn’t happen. Harris could squeak through a victory, only to “lose” the election because of this or that post-election certification shenanigans.
This raises the question — are Blue states willing to go mano-a-mano with Red states as to making sure the legal winner of the election is sworn in? That is a question I just don’t know at the moment.
I would prefer no political violence for obvious reasons. And I’m not in any way promoting any such thing, but I do fear that if such things were to happen that I will become a domestic political refugee because well, my state — Virginia — is actually two states fused together who absolute hate each other.
If there is any significant post-election political violence, Virginia will be in the thick of things. It is one of a few states that will simply collapse into chaos as quickly as possible.
And that will suck, big time.
I don’t think people appreciate how sucky it will be on a practical basis if there is any sort of civil war in the United States. The race war in the Deep South alone will make the whole thing intolerable. And we’ve not even begun to address the possibility of billions — billions — dying across the globe when nuclear tipped regional wars break out.
Ugh.
I just don’t think people are taking all of this seriously enough.
