One More Year

[missizzy]

Tell the truth, I'm not harboring much hope for the end of next year. Even if we manage to vote Trump out, my faith in which is decreasing, he will almost certainly attempt a coup. Then we likely have either an outright dictatorship, or civil war. I'm think maybe I should just try to enjoy the first ten months of 2020 as much as anyone can under these circumstances, because who knows what's going to happen to everyone in DC come 2021, and I can't see any way out before then.
These had been a good ten years for me. I started them despairing of trying to get a library job, trying to write novels but not really knowing how to, even suffering the results of an estrangement in my family, terrified of what would happen when my father died. Now I have my job, have settled for writing things people are definitely reading, and have my sister back-though we did lose my father, and we knew he'd go before mom did, but we had hoped he'd last longer. I have a lot. But for how much longer will I get to keep any of it?

Comments

[dewline]

I wish I knew what I can do - now or in the near future - to help you with whatever comes.

[missizzy]

Thanks.

[melannen]

I think the odds of Trump managing a coup are low. The military hates him. (The military brass has seen too much of his incompetence, too personally, and also are particularly unhappy about conspiracy with Russia.) He hasn't been able to do the necessary ass-kissing to cover for this. The infantry is something like 45% POC and young; they skew more conservative than their non-military demographic counterparts, but not far enough to rise in favor of Trump especially with the brass against him. There are militias that might rise in his favor, but they are universally small, rural, and even more incompetent than he is.

I'm not giving odds on "he tries to cheat himself back into the Presidency using his control of the courts, the Democratic candidate is too liberal for the military, someone in the military brass leads a coup against them both", mind you, but there's no obvious charismatic leader at the moment to do that, and at least it wouldn't be a Trump dictatorship? I think even in that worst case it's much more likely the higher-ups would decide to force him out in Pence's favor, and run things behind the scenes like they did with W.

[missizzy]

From what I can tell, the military rank and file seems split, but there is definitely a white supremacist problem within its white members.

[dewline]

A DMZ-style uprising that fizzles out after a few years would be bad enough for the US and the rest of the world.