by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
I get how Reds think that Blues are smug and condescending. Ok, I get it. But what I don’t get is why Reds continue to feel so oppressed and disenfranchised when it’s self-evident that MAGA is politically ascendant.
MAGA is ascendant to the point that at some time between now and January 2025, Blues are going to face the existential choice of bending a knee to MAGA-themed autocracy or not. If they don’t then their only choice will be to serve papers on a National Divorce and to initiate a Second American Civil War.
At the moment, I don’t think we’re going to have a 2ACW because, well, lulz, Blues just don’t have it in them. Even though they’re a majority of Americans, they are too divided, too busy bitching and moaning about trigger warnings, micro aggressions, and how many genders can dance on the head of a pin to address the cold hard facts
America is careening towards autocracy and unless Blues are willing to leave the Union to keep their freedoms, then, well, lulz. MAGA Republicans are inevitably going to gain power and when they do, that’s it. We will be an autocracy with the only question being if we are going to settle somewhere around Hungary and Turkey or Russia and Nazi Germany.
At the moment, I just don’t know. It’s too difficult to game out the exact nature of our coming autocracy. But I do know that at a minimum 1 million wealthy liberals will leave the country starting in late 2024 when it becomes clear that Blues are simply going to give up.
Let me be clear — I can’t predict the future. And plenty of things could happen to negate all my hysterical predictions. I got 2020 – 2021 wrong (for the most part) because I not only totally overestimated Trump, but there was a pandemic. Something similar could happen.
But if you just look at macro trends, the United States is pretty much fucked. Republicans are fascists and Blues are simply too divided and ineffectual to do anything about it. I continue to be amazed by the Republicans I know who simply can not stop conflating the growing hard power of MAGA Republicans with the very soft power of Blues.
So, essentially, Reds want to end American democracy because Blues make them feel bad. As such, this makes Reds want to “own” the libs to the point that they’re willing to burn the whole country to the ground to prove their point.
There are no easy answers in a country that seems to only expect them.
