by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
If you want my opinion on the chances of that the United States will slip peacefully into autocracy, I will give you the following allegory.
Suppose someone from the future actually popped up and it was provable. How would history address this situation? How would the average person? The idea of the reality of time travel could very well be too much for everyone’s poor minds to process and it would be time travel, not first contact that caused mass chaos.
The point of this allegory is how would the average person process the idea that the United States is no longer a democracy? If Trump (or someone like him) was brazen enough in their transformation of the United State into Trumplandia, would the average person shrug or would they freak out? Would they process the presence of time travel calmly or would it break their brain?
It’s my inability to figure out how the average American would process the death of 240 odd years of American democracy that leaves me unable to figure out if we would have a civil war in the 2024 – 2025 timeframe or if we’re just going to become an autocracy peacefully and with our eyes wide open.
Let me be clear — I definitely don’t want a civil war. I’m a man of peace. A man of ideas.
But, fuck, would it be sad if Trump (or someone like him) was able to take away our democratic birthright in broad daylight…and nothing happened. For the moment, that’s definitely what seems like what is going to happen.
If it’s Ron DeSantis who does the transformation, it’s likely to be so subtle that, lulz, the average Traditionalist conservative won’t even notice or care that we’re no longer a democracy because they’re complicit and like, nay, LOVE his policies. Only when a loved one say, ME, won’t shut the fuck up about what a fucking cocksucker autocrat DeSantis and ICE swoops in and puts me in a re-education camp without due process with these Traditionalists realize that maybe they should have made common cause with libtards like me when they had the opportunity.
But by then, of course, it will be too late. Way too late.
