05-25-2020, 06:39 PM
(05-25-2020, 05:37 PM)David Horn Wrote: If ~40% of the people simply don't believe the facts on the ground, how do you get to the next level? Trump is a master of confusion. If he convinces his 40% that the COVID-19 pandemic is a sham (and they actually want to believe that already), then couple that with the election was stolen and Democrats are responsible, how do you think that will play? Will the military follow orders or devolve into a Trump cabal? If the latter, then how is anything resolved? The Blue side is not going to go for a coup. If the former, will there then be so much chaos that martial law really IS required? How many boots on the ground can America tolerate?
If the science is vaguely right, there will be a lot of deaths in the happy talk states that simply will not be ignorable. This may even wake up a conservative. If so, it will happen long before the election, let alone the inauguration. Thus, I am not dwelling too much on the scenarios that you are wondering about.
I did come up with another one. If Trump is in trouble, he may try to wag the dog and start something with China. Starting World War III to satisfy a personal lust for power is just like Trump.
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