Rachel Maddow: What Worries Me Most About Election Night - eviltoast
  • BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca
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    3 months ago

    I’ve thought for years now that the US will fracture during my lifetime. It’s something that multiple state actors (like China, Russia, and Iran) are expending significant resources on achieving. Having the US break up would be massively beneficial for these countries.

    Unfortunately it’s working really well, the political divide in the US is absolutely massive right now. There really just needs to be a spark, and an election where the rest of the modern world actually considers it stolen would definitely fit into that category of possible ignition sources.

    It probably won’t matter though, having Georgia be the deciding factor has only a low chance of happening. So this may just be something that gets added to the pile of tinder, rather than being the spark.

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      3 months ago

      I have an easier time believing the US fracturing and states declaring independence than I have the people revolting in an uprising should Trump steal the election through the House vote.

      But I pray every day neither ends up happening. Despite not believing in God.

      • BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca
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        3 months ago

        I think you may have an odd definition of what “revolt” means.

        A state declaring independence after having a referendum is well within the normal concept of “revolt”

        It doesn’t necessarily require people stabbing each other with bayonets on a battlefield or storming the capitol building or anything.