BTRTN: The Insurrection Next Time
Born To Run The Numbers points out that both Republicans and Democrats are messaging that our elections are rigged. Republicans continue to the promote the "Big Lie," and Democrats protest that the wide range of Red State voter suppression laws designed to rig elections by disenfranchising minorities. The likely result: neither party will trust the outcome of elections. What happens then?
http://www.borntorunthenumbers.com/2021/12/btrtn-insurrection-next-time.html
Excerpts: "Sadly, it is easy to predict a scenario in which Election Day 2024 is the day when all hell breaks loose in America... It’s not hard to sketch out a scenario in which misinformation and malignant manipulation of our elections cause vast uncertainty and doubt about the real winner of the 2024 Presidential election. This uncertainty could, in turn, trigger an epic power struggle to determine the Presidency that becomes completely detached from the election itself. Regardless of which candidate is ultimately declared to be the winner, the opposing party will completely reject the legitimacy of the President of the United States.
"But here’s the weird thing. In their own way, Democrats, Progressives, and Liberals are also now messaging to their own constituencies that the elections of 2022 and 2024 may well be 'stolen.' The Democratic version of the “fixed election” message is correctly focused on the plethora of voter suppression laws that are being passed in Republican Legislatures all across the country. The difference, of course, is that the Democrats are right..."
"But when both parties assert that our elections are fixed, that cannot be good for democracy...
"It might be smart to recognize this possibility and think hard about what we should be doing now to minimize it, if not avoid it."