“What will happen when a significant portion of the electorate believes that a free and fair election is no longer possible because the system is permanently rigged to keep the ruling party in power? The question that may then arise is whether it will even be possible to decide elections peacefully through ballots, or whether bullets will be the last resort—as they were in 1860. When there is in fact no fundamental ground upon which the two sides of our deepening partisan divide can agree, it is hard to see how this conclusion will be avoided.”
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And this could be exactly what those rigging the system want. Just like they purposely created a set-up to lure unsuspecting Trump supporters into a situation that could be construed as an “insurrection”, as an excuse to arrest and punish them, making an example of them, they could very well use any attempt at civil war as an excuse to go full totalitarian and crush it with the full might of military power.
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Yes, that’s probably what they would like to do.
But the people are armed.
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And I don’t know if they could persuade the rank and file of our military to go against their fellow countrymen. But they are attempting to purge the military of “extremists” (patriots) as we speak…
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Yes, they are weeding out conservatives from the military. Very possibly they fear that they may need to use the military against the people, and want to be sure the soldiers will be obedient to them, in ideological harmony with the tyrannical oligarchs.
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