About once a month, I have a conversation with one of my Traditionalists relatives about politics. I’ve grown more and more reluctant to have these conversations because they’re Red and I’m Blue and anytime there’s any type of dispute over the facts, we can’t agree on what the fucking facts are!
Call it the “Bogus” Problem.
Whenever I point out cold hard facts — like Trump lied at least 30,000 times as POTUS and maybe Obama’s 1 (!) line about being able to keep your health insurance if you liked it wasn’t quite as bad as is being made out I get the “bogus” response.
The idea that Trump is a fucking liar, someone who lies far, far, far more than Obama is something that doesn’t work with the context of the Traditionalist media narrative, so, it’s “bogus.” When you can’t agree on facts with someone you disagree with politically, you go a serious fucking problem on your hands.
Such inability to agree on facts if they don’t fit your media narrative is extremely corrosive to the point that you either turn into a fascist autocracy or you have a civil war. At the moment, at least, it seems as if we’re just going to slouch into autocracy.
I will truly be flabbergasted if there is any sort of civil war in the United States. The center-Left just doesn’t have it in them to put up such a fight. But time will tell, I suppose.
It is easy to fall into the trap of thinking because, as CNN recently noted Red States are building a “nation within a nation” that if push came to shove they would be the ones to start a Second American Civil War.
But this is just silly. It’s for more logical to believe that making a Red State “nation within a nation” is nothing more than a middle step to taking over the entire country by forcing Blue States to “bend a knee” to Trumplandia. And that’s when Blue States face the choice of autocracy or civil war.
And, at the moment, I think all 50 states are going to live under the yoke of Trumplandia. Rather than putting up any sort of fight, or serving divorce papers on Red States and leaving the Union, Blue States will simply shrug. Now, of course, just like in Russia, there might be pretty big protests, but, lulz, the protests don’t really work there and they won’t work here, either.
Republicans are going to get everything they want and then some. Voting will be so ineffectual as to be rendered moot. And that will be that. About a million wealthy, well educated liberals — think typical Crooked Media audience — will leave the country until the autocrat makes it damn near impossible for that to happy anymore.
Form follows function.
I suppose there are any number of ways such hysterical, dystopian “terribly negative” scenarios might be punted down the road, but the macro trends definitely seem to indicate that is not going to be the case.
Or we have a civil war.
And some pretty shocking twists will have to happen for Blues to show the courage to do such a thing. So, get out the country. America is just about on her knees to MAGA tyranny.
Man, do my Traditionalist relatives fucking hate Dr. Tony Fauci. The only person they loath more is Hillary Clinton. They have come to imbue him with everything they hate about the modern world and how if they could only make liberals go away we could all accept Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior.
They fucking hate the man’s guts.
But why? What about him has made Dr. Fauci such a political hot potato?
Well, I think some of it comes from his refusal to bend a knee to ding Donald Trump. And, then, smelling blood in the water, the fucking cocksuckers of the Right wing echo chamber decided to throw everything they could at Fauci in hopes that he might resign so he could be replaced with some MAGA toady who would suck Trump’s cock instead of making sure Americans were safe.
Remember, it was difficult for Trump to fire Fauci outright because he’s a civil servant and, as such, is protected. But Trump, in his second term, plans to use his “Schedule F” idea to clear the way to firing as many as 50,000 civil servants because, fuck you lib.
I keep telling my Traditionalist relatives to calm the fuck down. I tell them to put the pitchforks away, they’re going to get everything they want if they just wait. Republicans and, as such, fascists, are ascendant and we’re all going to have to start making some pretty big choices about what it means to live in A Very American Autocracy.
Proving my point, Dr. Fauci has announced his retirement pretty soon and that STILL isn’t enough for Republicans. I’m beginning to worry that the fucking cocksuckers of Fox News want physical harm to happen to Dr. Fauci. Fuck, those fuckers — especially Jesse Waters — can eat shit.
Excuse me. I’m in a bad mood.
Anyway, pour one out for Dr. Fauci. Things are bleak in the US at the moment, an only getting worse by the moment. The moment Republicans gain control of any sort again we’re going to lurch into autocratic fascism. If you have the means, leave the country.
One of the many things that Blue Check liberals on Twitter are oblivious about is how popular fascism is in the United States. I would estimate that about 48% of the American population wants fascism. There’s a spectrum to that support, of course. Some people don’t really know what it is that they want, but they are white and Christian and they think the “woke cancel culture mob” is trying to force everyone to be gay.
So, they vote Republican like their life depended on it.
And, while I’m well aware that all this sounds hysterical to Republicans who note people like me have been calling Republicans “fascists” since at least Barry Goldwater, it’s not people like me who are so sure that the United States “isn’t a democracy, it’s a constitutional republic.”
Now, America’s shift into autocratic fascism is complicated by a number of things. One is, the whole thing is the result of pretty prosaic macro trends that are difficult for the average person who isn’t a political junky to get a clear grasp on or to even care about. Also, there is the issue of race, which will effect how close to Nazi Germany we get. And, lastly, the United States is so big and diverse that it’s a least possible that when the transition to fascism is at its weakest — probably around late 2024, early 2025 — that we will have a civil war when Blue States serve divorce papers on Red States.
But for that to happen, a lot of things would have to go wrong for MAGA New Right fascists. One, Trump would have to run again and be such an idiot that he says “the quiet part out loud” the point that Blue States decide they have no choice but to leave the Union. And, at the same time, some sort of Blue leadership would have to suddenly pop out of the woodwork. All I can think of at the moment is Liz Cheney, but she’ not even a Blue.
So, it definitely seems as though the United States will become an autocratic, fascist state the moment a Republican is POTUS again. Nothing will change at first, then, gradually a panoply of extremely unpopular Republican policies will be inacted…and the general public will suddenly realize that voting is moot, meaningless.
But at least we won’t have the woke cancel culture mob to worry about? Is that something we’re supposed to be happy about when I’m in an ICE camp twiddling my thumbs while I wait to get shot in the head for calling President DeSantis a cocksucker?
Oh, Jesus Christ. If ever there was a clear delineation between the bonkers world of MAGA and, well, everyone else, it is the deification of Ashli Babbitt as some sort of right wing martyr.
To make her some sort of fascist John Brown requires some significant mental gymnastics given everything else MAGA wants us to believe about Jan 6th. So, here’s what we’re supposed to believe. The whole thing was a Deep State operation by a combination of Antifa and the FBI and yet somehow, at the same time, all the parts that MAGA likes were done by patriots who just wanted to Stop The Steal. These patriots were just on a tour of the capitol. They just wanted to remind Mike Pence of the right thing to do — never mind the whole “Hang Mike Pence” chant.
As such, it’s not biggie that had Ashli Babbitt NOT been shot, there’s a good chance there would have been significant bloodshed on January 6th. But I know people who are all-in on the idea that Babbitt Did Nothing Wrong and the evil Deep State people who shot her should be hung.
OH MY FUCKING GOD.
Fuck Ashli Babbitt. Play deranged mob games, get deranged mob prizes. She was no martyr. She was a seditious goon who wanted to murder Mike Pence and other members of Congress.
I hate to break it to all the earnest, well meaning “Resistance” people on Twitter who seem to be forever stuck in January 2017, but: getting angry on Twitter doesn’t mean jack shit.
Or, to put it another way, a strongly worded Twitter thread is not a law passed or a SCOTUS ruling handed down.
Everything on a macro level continues to point to America having the existential choice of autocracy or civil war starting in late 2024, early 2025. At the moment, I definitely think we’re going to just slip into autocracy. Trump, or some other Republican thug, will seize then consolidate power and that will be that.
If we’re lucky, we’ll stay somewhere around Hungary or Turkey. If we’re not lucky, we’ll become a political clone of Russia or Nazi Germany. People like me will just vanish and that will be that, while at least 1 million liberals will flee the country.
Or we have a civil war when Blue States leave the Union en mass.
And it’s not just one person we have to stop to prevent this dystopian hellscape from happening — it’s an entire party. What’s worse, Trump has served his political and historical purpose. The Republican Party now fully understands how weak our democratic norms are and they will be able to establish white minority rule in the US without much trouble.
All along, of course, “Resisters” will rant on Twitter, thinking if they can just “destroy” the autocrat one more time on Twitter that everything will be fixed and we’ll be saved.
I would prefer not to leave the country because the US has become an autocracy. I would prefer, in such a situation, to stand and fight. And it’s possible that because I’m a broke ass motherfucker that I won’t have any option but to do just that.
All I know is, we are currently in the twilight of America’s 250 year experiment with democratic self-governance. Either we renew it as part of a Second American Civil War where we blow ourselves up and the Good Guys win, or we just give up and become an autocracy.
While I love my Traditionalist relatives dearly sometimes it’s very obvious that all their talking points are simply the watered down talking points of American Nazis. They hear about the Great Replacement and the Great Reset and the evils of the “liberal world order’ and then turn around and either yell at me about them or just sulk in silence because they no longer want to me about politics.
One thing I’ve found to be frustrating as someone who’s Twitter echo chamber is center-Left is how so many “Resistance” thought leaders are very, very oblivious to the issues that are important to Traditionalists and MAGA.
To your typical conservatives it’s not “the border” it’s The Border. There is only one border, the national border, and it’s like their political clit — touch it and they get really excited one way or another. Now, for me, the center-Right’s obsession with The Border is patently racist and bigoted.
America is, by definition, a nation of immigrants and what anyone who rants about The Border is really talking about is their fear that scary brown people will change the make up of the United States because white women aren’t haven’t enough babies.
One thing that is interesting is the Traditionalists I know fucking hate liberals and Democrats with such an absolute rage that there is no room for compromise. They often get so wrapped up in their dreams of “putting Hillary Clinton under the prison” that when you say, “Ok, you can have that as long as Trump is right there with her” they don’t even notice the concession you’ve made.
What’s more, not only do my Traditionalists think that the “woke cancel culture mob” is out to ruin their lives on a practical, personal basis, they also think that anyone who isn’t MAGA is either gay, a “groomer” or wants to force everyone to bend a knee to the “homosexual agenda.” This is RIGHT THERE at the very front of their minds whenever you want to talk about politics. In other words, we’re totally fucked. It’s just a short jaunt towards a President DeSantis getting approval to throw people like me in a camp.
Because all of that is very bonkers, it’s very easy for center-Left thought leaders to make fun of what MAGA believes. That serves no purpose. While we’re all laughing at MAGA, they’re quickly taking over not just state governments but the administration of elections.
And, I hate to break it to you, but the Nazis believed some pretty crazy things — comical, even. But that didn’t stop them from taking over Europe and threatening the entire world.
Is there any solution to this clusterfuck?
No. There isn’t. We’re beyond the Even Horizon. Not only that, but we’ve given up as a country. We’re either going to have a civil war or we’re going to turn into a Very American Autocracy. Get out while you can, if you have the means.
One of the strangest things going on these days is how MAGA is so interested in a Second American Civil War. This blog is very, very obscure — virtually no one reads it — and yet, there continues to be a regular trickle of obvious MAGA people interested in my speculation about a possible civil war.
It’s all very curious because why would MAGA want to start a civil war when they’re getting everything they want via the courts and regular old politics? They’re ascendant. They have a vested interest in there not being a civil war so they can peacefully consolidate power.
All they have to do is be patient and they will get the fascist autocracy that they apparently want so bad.
And, yet, MAGA definitely seems to be chomping at the bit to have the opportunity to murder people like me in cold political blood. I struggle with this contradiction a great deal these days. What is going on?
Some of it, I guess, comes from MAGA’s self-perception. They are both bullies and crybabies — who are apparently very impatient. As such, they are totally oblivious to how they’re getting everything they want — and more — without firing a shot.
They are so aggrieved, so full of rage because of the all-powerful “woke cancel culture mob” that they keep assuming that if there is a civil war that they’ll be the ones who start it. It just doesn’t make any sense. I suppose some of it comes from the “froth” of some of the major MAGA thought leaders who won’t shut up about the need for a civil war.
But, as I keep saying, if there’s a civil war in the United States, it’s going to happen when Blue States leave the Union at some point between Election Day 2024 and Certification Day 2025. And, yet, I just don’t see that happening. The people who would be leading any effort at secession on the part of Blue States will already have one foot out the door by the time that particular crisis hits.
So, it’s all very dumb.
Yet, that doesn’t stop MAGA people from looking at this blog to see what a civil war would look like. I wish they would just cool it an be happy for once — everything is set for them to peacefully seize control of the United States and never let it go.
It’s up to them if we become a clone of Turkey, Hungary…or Russia or even Nazi Germany.
Jesus H. Christ. Apparently, some stray MAGA New Right “thought leader” made some dumb quip that implied that Guam wasn’t fighting WW3 for.
Fuck that guy.
Guam is American territory and if China somehow feels it can threaten it, that’s war. This is an example of how I’m far less Leftist than anti-MAGA in my views. The United States is the linchpin of the global order and if, say, China went after Guam because we defended Taiwan then, war it is.
The idea that someone would quibble about defending Guam of all places kind of blows my mind.
Jesus H. Christ. A Very American Autocracy is careening towards us in broad daylight and we’re just going to let it happen. If Trump doesn’t implement “Schedule F,” then it will be a President DeSantis. (Or name a would-be Republican autocrat.)
I suppose the reason why Schedule F weighs on my mind so much is it’s a concrete fascist move on Trump’s (or whomever) part. It’s something I can point to and say, “Yep, that’s fascism. That’s A Very American Autocracy right there.”
Fascism in the United States is no longer an abstract. We now know what it will look like and how, specifically, Trump or someone like Trump will implement it. And, as I keep saying, this is not an abstract to me!
I’m a loudmouth crank who could very well easily cross the autocrat at some point in the future when I get drunk and rant about how much President DeSantis can suck my cock. The shift into autocracy will be so abrupt, so without notice that I’ll just be going about my business being a drunk crank then someone will turn me in and that will be that.
I’ll good poof! and, at best, I might hope to have my name etched in a monument to the disappeared at some point in the future. This is all very concrete for me. At the moment, at least, it doesn’t seem like I’ll have the funds to just leave the country like all the fucking Twitter liberals will do.
Ugh.
And, to think, we all will know about Schedule F waiting to be implemented and we’re not going to do a fucking thing to stop it happening.
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