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It will be a continuation of the last four years, I'm sure.
I think this is going to be much deeper. I think we're headed for something resembling a civil war. We're in a perfect storm. We're all sitting on a powder keg.
Trump will win on election night. HOWEVER... the mail in ballots will lean more toward Biden -- my point is, both sides will feel empowered to protest whatever the outcome.
Remember how many protests there were when Trump won? All the marching pink hats? I fear the pink hats will become guns. People will then take to the streets. We've already seen protests and murders in the streets in cities, there will be marches and protests organized on Twitter. They will have guns. The Local Gov have already shown they DO NOT support the police, law enforcement and order. So there will be unchecked riots and protests without police.
It's going to be very messy. Please know I write this from a very objective place. I'm not picking a horse, I'm just reading the tea leaves. I think there are sane calm people who will stay home. But there is clearly a fringe who is happy to take to the streets armed to voice their beliefs. This is what will happen.
Trump has said, "The only way we're going to lose this election is if the election is rigged." Think about the license he's giving his followers if they don't get what they want. It’s sad, and scary, when a sitting president goes so far to undermine democracy.
well to be fair, Hillary Clinton and Pelosi have said the same thing to the effect of, "we will not concede". The point I'm trying to make is BOTH sides -- Republicans and Dems have a chessboard of equal pieces in play. The Dems accuse Trump of collusion with Russia. The Republicans call Biden Beijing Biden for his affiliations with China. I could make an entire list of these partisan counterpoints. It's just a shame that in this "great country" we couldn't do better and are stuck with these two. And sadly there are no adults in the room.
My overall point is sadly, I fear there will be chaos and mayhem the likes of which we've never seen.
I expect riots on election night if he wins. As if that's any different that any other day right now. Nothing new otherwise.
I'll give him this. He's the first republican president in my nearly 40 years of life that hasn't involved us in some bs war getting our soldiers killed over nothing.
Everything will be fine whoever wins. They’re will be protests either way. So what. The real bad shit you see from these protests is mostly staged to scare you and divide us.
Everything will be fine whoever wins. They’re will be protests either way. So what. The real bad shit you see from these protests is mostly staged to scare you and divide us.
Identify politics has put people into waring factions who believe it's all or nothing. The medi, both established and social, has hade a huge negative impact on politics overall, for the left the political is the personal it's an existential war, for the right it's border control and tax cuts. Both sides are reacting to eachother but the left is more zealous socially, that's why people are so hyped up.I remember the night Gore kinda lost to Bush II and then it went to the Supreme Court blah blah blah... it was hard fought, contested but there was never any suggestion that there would be riots or rebellions or whatever.
What happened to US politics in the last 20 years?
...and we're back to the Culture Wars, again.Identify politics has put people into waring factions who believe it's all or nothing. The medi, both established and social, has hade a huge negative impact on politics overall, for the left the political is the personal it's an existential war, for the right it's border control and tax cuts. Both sides are reacting to eachother but the left is more zealous socially, that's why people are so hyped up.
It tends to yeah. America is basically a culture divide between big cities and country towns. If you live in a city you are probably more for gun control because people are shooting eachother, if you live in the country, where it would take police a long time to reach you, you need a gun. America is so big I sometimes wonder if it can last as a federal state. I get that state rights are a thing but in a country for 350 million agreement is impossible, especially with only two mainstream parties. Thanks to the dominance of neo-liberal economic policy there are few differences between republican and democratic policies so culture becomes the battlefield as proxy and people ignore economic policies. This also benefits big business and the power elite, if you can distract the people with cultural problems they won't overturn an unjust economic and political system....and we're back to the Culture Wars, again.
Keeps on coming back to that, as far as I can tell.
I always love being lectured on "American Culture" by someone who lives in the United Kingdom.It tends to yeah. America is basically a culture divide between big cities and country towns. If you live in a city you are probably more for gun control because people are shooting eachother, if you live in the country, where it would take police a long time to reach you, you need a gun. America is so big I sometimes wonder if it can last as a federal state. I get that state rights are a thing but in a country for 350 million agreement is impossible, especially with only two mainstream parties. Thanks to the dominance of neo-liberal economic policy there are few differences between republican and democratic policies so culture becomes the battlefield as proxy and people ignore economic policies. This also benefits big business and the power elite, if you can distract the people with cultural problems they won't overturn an unjust economic and political system.