(November 2, 2020 at 12:51 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: No matter who wins the election the shit show is far from over.
You know those riots and craziness after a big game? They will pale with what goes on after the election is called.
I shudder to think how much chaos Trump can create between November 4 and January 20.
This is speculation, so take it with a lorry full of salt.
I expect Trump, after the election results are counted & confirmed, to try to consolidate supporters by forming and arming some kind of national paramilitary, from loose militia groups and up and including support from actual military. But because Trump & Co. are so fucking incompetent, Pentagon will have nothing of it and they will cut it off at its source before they're able to fuck shit up, preemptively.
Most of the Trump cultists will be shocked by this reality check, but will adapt and begrudgingly accept it. They. Will. Not. Go. Away. They will do it all over again, 4 years later. However, a considerable amount of the minority cultists, fanatics through and through, will not accept it and will actively stir shit up. What exactly they will do, is anyone's guess, but I expect the fanatics in sheer stochastic manner target anything they beforehand deem to be not-Trump related, which could be as banal as someone on the street with the 'incorrect' skin hue getting assaulted up to and including 'liberal' and/or 'lefty' institutions. Shit will hit the fan, depending on the amount of Trump fanatics that are competent enough to hold a gun and not shoot themselves in the foot.
I also expect, those on the other side of the aisle - who are the majority - to hunker down and take up a defensive position, and ride the storm out, and let the fanatics burn themselves out.
Unsurprisingly, fanatics are renowned to self-cannibalize, so, sadly though, a lot of them will duke it out amongst themselves because of some perceived failure to install the Glorious Leader for a 2nd term against those who weren't fanatical enough. Exactly how vast this process of self-cannibalization will go depends on how cohesive they are, in organizational terms, and how well their abhorrent values align with one another. Since being fanatics, there is very little wiggle room for nuance, and the extreme levels of conformity in both behavior, slogans, and physical appearance will decide this.
I shudder to think what kind of supreme fanatics will come out on top, and who will, being intelligent enough to realize they lost, go into hiding again, while the others, less intelligent, getting killed in pointless combat will be remembered among both fanatics and cultists alike, as martyrs.
That's the most extreme possible outcome. I don't think, despite the severity of this situation, that it will become a full-fledged civil war thanks to the sane parts of the military fighting for some lofty ideal about keeping the peace, who luckily are the vast majority of the military.
