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| How the Next Civil War Begins |
| 2022-12-04 |
| [Tablet] All national declines ebb and flow. The street violence and chaos of the summer of 2020 marked the moment the curtain was pulled back, the country’s true psychic state revealed for a single season before the curtain fell once more—President Biden entered office, the pandemic subsided, normalcy seemed to return. In the two years since that summer, I’ve considered the specific series of events that might trigger our final national fragmentation, often in Tablet, and it now seems clear to me that America’s demise will be inaugurated by what has become our country’s pastime: a contested election. In two years from now, both parties will declare themselves the electoral victor, with neither presidential candidate conceding defeat; state electors will ratify two different presidents, according to their preferred narrative or conspiracy theory; the country will then fracture, legally and institutionally, along red and blue lines. According to recent polling, more than 50% of Americans expect a new civil war in the "next couple of years." It’s a pathetic scenario more fitting for a semi-authoritarian backwater than the world’s beacon of democracy. National breakup efforts will be coming and, if we’re being honest, they’re behind schedule. Since 2000, the U.S. has witnessed three contested presidential elections, with one side labeling the results illegitimate. In 2000’s Bush v. Gore, the Supreme Court shut down vote recounts and delivered the election to the son of a former president, a man whose family, at various points, maintained that the 1992 election itself was "stolen" by the querulous Ross Perot and the meddling "liberal media." |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #4 ...the problem starts when their muscle that go home at night don't show up the next day, then increases across the land. The bureaucracy starts to become overwhelm. It's like the inner city now, they can't get anyone to talk, to point fingers. There's enough protection for the top eaters, but from there on down it become harder and harder to provide the front guys down below with similar protection. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2022-12-04 16:07 |
| #3 As they continue to win, retain the power of lawful government and escape consequences both political and legal, their boldness increases. The mythic creation of "white supremacist conspiracy" and "sedition" is setting the prerequisite context for the ruthless crackdown once they finally trigger civil unrest by their tyrannical abuse of power. The Covid interregnum and emergency powers neutered reaction for far too long, and now, after two iterations of voter fraud, they have become overtly smug about dynastic, imperial status for the new world order aristocracy they believe they have established. Today former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, President Obama’s fellow traveler and wingman in the fundamental change process, stated his belief the progressive movement and Biden administration has adequately prepared the nation to “absorb” the political violence that may surface as the result of an arrest of former President Donald Trump. |
| Posted by: NoMoreBS 2022-12-04 14:27 |
| #2 /\ There is some very frightening evidence in support of your cmnt Hup. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2022-12-04 12:54 |
| #1 Start? It’s over. We lost. |
| Posted by: Hupolunter de Medici7308 2022-12-04 12:43 |