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In reply to the discussion: The Reality of Living In A Regime Is the Question: Now What? [View all]ancianita
(42,818 posts)You're calm, optimistic and yet, on balance, so much objective evidence gives your claim 50-50 odds, maybe worse.
It's important to think on recent history as an objective indicator of what to expect.
Overall, 45's rule of law insurgency should show us that any normal systems we've had in place are vulnerable to breakdown.
Rule of law stands as unenforceable. The door is now wide open at state levels for unregulated election approaches. Besides pre-November mass buying of hackable vote machinery, servers and all, there are increasing vote count "irregularities" to be expected.
So I have "probability" questions.
Didn't 45 cause the longest shut down of govt over a wall last year?
How much more important would be the GE results IF45 wants?
How could he get them?
Who has plans to stop him?
From October to December, how many states' votes could sit uncounted after a "surprise" or multiple "irregularities"?
How probable could be a "national emergency" order over one or two state server hacks in each of the country's 5 regions?
Who will oversee counts? Clean up irregularities? Enforce states' election law? Did anyone do that in Georgia?
Worst case scenario, who stops any orders to national guards to threaten protestors, kettle, tear gas, cart them off to jail, or worse?
Will IF45, who's called House leaders nasty and evil, double down on media as The Enemy?
Even with Limbaugh gone, what's the probability that media and radio will rev up old drum beats on old hates, hoaxes and enemies script; throw in election treason, traitors and 2A remedies against them; throw in lingo to incite mass shootings (that dips during his 2020 rally season, but did increase in the two years after his taking possession of the WH).
Does hollering national media matter to this regime anymore?
Would our party's leaders have action -- real action -- plans for these contingencies?
Given the stakes for IF45 upon leaving office (state/federal indictments, tax returns, loss of emoluments, declassifying, opening up secret servers...);
given his do or die motivation to win at any cost, what would happen to the many elections?
I hope you're right. Still. 45's regime also has time.
Given the likelihood of a repeat of the above, would many elections' results hold the country together?
I can't help thinking that even if our thousand cuts hit media, there's no doubt IF45's all-out political war will be even louder.
His regime could cost us many elections.