My friends Meaghan and Shoebocks down in Louisville had a scary incident in their neighborhood last night with an apparently high-on-meth guy running into their yard threatening to kill people, and screaming the N-word. He was chased off and disappeared and everyone's fine. But it occurred to me that THAT is what their "coup" or their "civil war" is gonna look like. Random. Sporadic. Scary and violent. But at the end of the day pointless and not signifying much. This is their "plan" for coup d'état / Civil War. It's the same plan as always: none. Same plan they had for winning this election: none; for governing: none. Their "plan" looks like marginal crazies on meth doing the sort of pointless acting out that marginal crazies on meth do. Yes, they're scary and violent - and I am quite certain some people will get hurt. Obviously I'm so glad my friends in Louisville are fine, but there there isn't some mastermind pulling all these strings. There's no plan here on other than: rely on the marginal crazies to help us overturn democracy.
Dems and the Biden people may not be as progressive as I'd like, but they do at least have a plan.
That's why I encourage my friends who are understandably VERY anxious about things like coups or civil wars, to try ramping down our OWN worst fear/ruminations. Look at what's happening on the ground right now. The Trumpies' window to somehow "cure" Election 2020 for themselves has closed. America is waking up to envision a new President soon, and a significant majority like what they see. Conservative America is mad and depressed right now, but a few of the wiser heads are already no doubt salivating at their prospects for 2022. They can try again next time.
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