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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIf (when?) Trump steals the 2020 election, what then?
Most of us don't want a King Donald I, but we don't get to count the votes.
Civil War II? nobody wants that.
But what if the unthinkable happens? What if Trump and his fellow thugs win, and the rest of the criminal Republican Party holds onto the senate?
Are the majority of Americans going to sit quietly by while America becomes a fascist country run by people who want to rule us and the rest of the world?
Most of us don't want this, but what do we do to stop it? A second Civil War is impossible as there are no geographic boundaries. (What are you going to do? Shoot your neighbor?)
So here's my question. What is out plan B?
If we "revolt" Trump will declare martial law.
If we don't revolt, we become subject to the will of King Donald I.
I hope we will throw his ass out, along with the entire corrupt Republican Party, next November. But hope is not a plan.
We need a way to strongly resist what is all too possible.
Trump cannot serve another four years without this country imploding. There's no easy answer here. But we sure as hell need to find a way to fight the tyranny that may descend upon us.
Anybody have a magic wand?
NCLefty
(3,678 posts)There is no "magic wand." You should inhale/exhale more, and work to GOTV in 2020. :p
VOX
(22,976 posts)Democrats can get out the popular vote all over hells creation but saddled with the Electoral College as we are, it will be the votes in the dozen perennial swing states where the election will be won/lost: Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Wisconsin (and possibly Arizona this time).
In particular, the so-called Rust Belt (Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, etc.) has the highest concentration of older white male voters. This is the region where Trump squeaked by in the 2016 election. Winning most of these states is the *only* path to victory, as the remainder of the electoral map is pretty much cast in blue-and-red stone now.
As for Russian interference on behalf of Trump, count on it.
So, yeah, GOTV in massive numbers, ESPECIALLY in the swing states. Otherwise...
abqtommy
(14,118 posts)opinion that it's exactly what sPUTIN, tRUMP and the reTHUGS want. We are living in interesting
times.