I have a news flash for you, Mikey: from what I've been seeing and reading---on the internet, on the TV, from talking to myriads of people---if Kamala "wins" this election, I think it's a very real possibility that the one who gets surprised is going to be you, and the people like you; and surprised in a very nasty way.
I have never, ever seen so much resigned certainty among people---like they are absolutely certain there's going to be violent upheaval---and they're just doggedly waiting for it to happen, like waiting for a hurricane to make landfall. I have never seen so many comments about election fraud, like it's an undisputable fact that the Democrats cheated in 2016 and 2020, to manipulate the election the way they wanted it to go. I have never seen so many comments from people talking about the number of arms they are obtaining, the ammunition, food, water, clothing they're stockpiling. None of them are talking about "overthrowing the government"; it's more like they know things are going to get ugly, and they're getting prepared for when the ugliness reaches their neighborhoods. "
If they show up in my front yard, intending to harm me, my family, or my property," they seem to be saying,
"then I will drop them dead in their tracks."
And this is not talk from just hard-core gun enthusiasts or militia-style right-wingers---I've heard these types of comments coming from relatives of mine: peaceful, sedate, responsible, law-abiding folks who have never touched the hair on anybody's head in their lives. This type of atmosphere has increased as the election has gotten closer: what I was reading last night sounded like comments made at the end of August 1939: everybody knew it was going to hit the fan; they just had to brace for when it inevitably took place.
If I had to boil this all-pervading angst down into a few bullet points, the general trend seems to come down to this:
1. There is no common ground among people. You're either 100% in for Trump, or 100% in for Kamala, and you are not going to concede one inch to the opposite side. No compromise, no surrender. You will never concede this election to your opponent candidate. Never.
2. It seems to be a well-known, and totally accepted,
fact that the Democrats are going to cheat in order to put Kamala in the White House. Everybody
knows that the Democrats cheated in 2016 (they did take votes away from Bernie Sanders in the primaries and assign them to Hillary Clinton, for instance) and that they cheated again in 2020 (there is a
LOT of chatter out there about the hundreds of thousands of votes for Biden that magically appeared out of thin air at 3 A.M.), so it isn't surprising that they're going to pull the same shifty tricks this time as well.
3. There seems to be an absolute zero confidence level in the authority and the integrity of our institutions (I've heard this regarding the election apparatus, the political parties, the Supreme Court, the FBI, the Secret Service, the police, various government alphabet agencies, etc., etc.). This ties in with an absolute certainty that the voting machines, the vote counters, and especially the news media, cannot be trusted, that it's a foregone conclusion that they will manipulate things for Kamala's advantage. (Again, the hundreds of thousands of votes for Biden that blinked into existence at 3 A.M., the alleged discovery of thousands of mail-in votes for Biden found inside mail sacks in dumpsters, the accounts of Trump votes being applied to Biden in 2020, etc., are cited.)
4. I have never, ever, in all my years, heard more talk about World War III. The expanding conflicts in the Middle East and Ukraine, the saber-rattling by North Korea, the Chinese bellicosity regarding Taiwan, the beefing up of NATO in Western Europe, the alerts, the missile launches, the violent chest-beating coming from Vladimir Putin, the
mullahs in Iran, and the crazy little fat man in Pyongyang, all add to this overall sensation of unease. The fact that a disintegration of American cohesion in the wake of a societal breakdown due to a contested election result adds to this. It seems to be accepted that if we are placed into a position of weakness and vulnerability by our inability to get along with each other, then our global adversaries will definitely take full advantage of that situation to put us out of commission for good. You can add to this the simmering rage about our non-existent southern border, allowing millions of unvetted, unvaccinated, criminal-background, drug-pushing, rapist murderers to flow into the country unimpeded.
5. I have never, ever, in all my years, heard more talk about a second American civil war. I know it is redundant for me to make yet another comparison to Northern Ireland during the Troubles, but it's the best comparison I can think of: you have two totally polarized classes of people living in the same territory. Neither of them have any great love for the other; neither of them are about to concede so much as a millimeter; neither of them are willing to allow the other to have enough control to shape the country into "
their vision instead of
ours". A lot of talk out there about rebellions, riots, assassinations, bombings, armed militias, you name it. Whoever wins this election, fairly or unfairly, the other side is going to cause trouble; that's just the way it is. They know it; we know it; and all we can do is prepare for it. Get ready to see thousands of young men enlisting in the American iteration of the Provisional IRA if Kamala wins. Likewise, if Trump wins, get ready for massed howling mobs of Antifa/BLM/radical feminist/radical alternative sexual persuasion groups to descend on every major city and begin burning them to the ground.
Now, will all this actually happen? I don't know. "Prophet" is not listed among my job titles. But I
do know that there's a lot of chatter out there; a lot of it coming from nice people that I've never heard such things coming from before. I personally think there will be trouble in the aftermath of this election. How bad it will get, and what the countereffect will be, I can't say. But I
am certain
something is going to happen, and it's probably not going to be very pretty to look at. I hope that this will not lead to Rand McNally having to re-draw all the maps of the world five years or so from now, but I don't know for sure that it won't.
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