• partial_accumen@lemmy.world
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    15 days ago

    Its looking more and more like thats the GOP plan. Incite an uprising, then they declare martial law where they are free from any check on their power by the courts.

    Whats going to be the lynchpin is the GOP will have an army willing to put down Americans en masse.

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      Or the military command structure fractures and now they have several warring regional or state fractions/civil war, or the military leadership enacts a coup when given illegal orders and either holds executive under military threat or hands control back to the legislature or judicial to hold a special election.

      They are unable to see any of these unintended possible consequences of their actions, the same way they are unable to identify irony, or have empathy, or entertain hypotheticals.

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        holds executive under military threat or hands control back to the legislature or judicial to hold a special election.

        With the actual past insurrection supporters currently in control of the legislature and the judiciary, I wonder if this would be the final thing that triggers action on their part to preserve the country, or would they simply hand the reigns of power back to copycats of the ones that fomented the first insurrection.

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      This is one of the reasons why Lincoln was emphatic that the south had to draw first blood. That allowed him to set the war in motion.

      The problem this time is that the fascists are in power and they have their hands on the levers. They are drawing first blood through their laws and executive orders.

      At some point, liberals will have to fight back. I fear that more people will die before that happens