• SaraTonin@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    I love how everybody is assuming that there will be a “next election”. I’m not sure that’s guaranteed. Except, maybe, in the way that Russia still has elections.

    I mean, I know you can be too alarmist about things, but there’s a very clear and obvious direction of travel in the US right now.

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      4 hours ago

      I don’t disagree with you, but I feel like people jump to that scenario without describing the steps to get there. How do you see unfolding? How do different opposition groups respond such as the DNC? What about blue states? How does the administration handle it without losing popular consensus? Does it even matter? If they use the military, how do they get the military stay the path when the populous begins to reject their intervention?

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        49 minutes ago

        How do you see unfolding?

        Martial law to respond to ice agents being killed or police turning against them.

        They’re already trying to instigate this.

        How do different opposition groups respond such as the DNC?

        “The Supreme Court says it’s ok, so our hands are tied, but we’re very upset.”

        They already have the Supreme Court on their team.

        What about blue states?

        Governors will either roll over or start a hot civil war.

        Which do you think they’ll choose?

        How does the administration handle it without losing popular consensus?

        By arresting and murdering protesters.

        They’ve already identified vague groups like antifa as domestic terrorists.

        If they use the military, how do they get the military stay the path when the populous begins to reject their intervention?

        If you give ICE a large enough budget, they can act as a new military. And by firing non-loyal brass for not being able to do enough pushups and replacing them with loyalists, you can keep the military from intervening under the guise of neutrality.