By Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
As I keep saying, the United States’ political system is not prepared for any sudden extra pressure on it. It wouldn’t take a lot at this point for there to be significant, unpreceded political violence across the country. Among the various ways this might happen is something that in a different era wouldn’t be that big a deal: the Scalia Endgame.
What I mean by this is, a well known political figure simply dies peacefully in their sleep. Even when Justice Antonin Scalia did it, the Right flipped out, thinking up all kinds of crazy conspiracies to explain a pretty mundane event: he died in his sleep.
There are a lot — a lot – of well know people on both sides of the aisle who are old as fuck and could croak at any moment just because, well, they’re old. I know I often think up some hysterical, dystopian scenarios that don’t happen, but the conditions are there, at least, for some serious political violence if the wrong old person croaks any time in the near future.
I hope we don’t have to worry about any of this. But it’s something to keep in the back of your mind.
