I hate to be a prognosticator of doom, but.......
Maybe Roseanne is right and we're all screwed.
Please tell me Roseanne is not our most accurate election predictor.
I don’t know what’s gonna happen in the 2024 election. This is, or course, true with every election. Nobody ever really knows. Even the best predictors often get it wrong. To me, 2024 is far less predictable then any election of my life time (45 years). Even more so than 2016 or 2020. I can’t say with confidence we’ll even have an election. I’m pretty sure we will. I think. I hope. That’s about my level of confidence though. Will both candidates be under indictment? Maybe. Could it end up being Kamala vs DeSantis (lord save us)? Sure. Could it be Biden vs Hailey/Scott/Hurd/Pence (again, lord save us)? I don’t know, could be. Could aliens show up and enslave us all? That seems possible. Global Thermo-nuclear war? Definitely on the table. You get my gist here. What really fries my noodle is the worst outcome maybe the most likely. A rehash of 2020,”captain dementia” against the “red nightmare”, Biden v Trump. It sends chills down my spine to type that sentence. I can’t see any good outcome from that match up.
The chance of no election seems ridiculous, yet for the first time in my life I think there’s a real chance we won’t have one. The last seven or so years has been a series of unthinkable things. Things I would have confidently used to say the government wouldn’t do, at least not anymore. I can absolutely see a situation where the current administration works to keep an election from happening. Declaring that chance of Donald Trump winning is a threat to national security. Where we must, to save democracy, cancel the election.
The other avenue I could see the Dems taking is; trying to get Trump’s name off the ballot at the state level. Both parties, who claim to love democracy, work tirelessly to keep third party candidates off ballots. Trying to take the Republican candidates name off the ballot is a whole other can of worms though. These kind of shenanigans worry me deeply. I don’t know how we avoid violence or/and a death spiral as a country if this nightmare comes to be. Who knows, maybe I am not conspiratorial ENOUGH. Maybe that’s the plan. Get Trump off the ballot in a few key states, wait for some demonstrations to turn somewhat violent, and use that as the excuse to “delay” the election(like they did in Ukraine).
Id like to say the media and real patriotic democrats wouldn’t stand for it, but I don’t know about that anymore. After watching the MSM and the party I used to support completely abandon their principals in the name of fighting both Trump and then COVID, I’m not sure I have any faith left. I truly, deeply, hope I’m wrong. Not just wrong either, but dramatically wrong. I hope we have an orderly and fair election. I hope everyone feels it’s that way also. As my wife’s grandma always used to say though “Hope in one hand, shit in the other, and see which one fill up first.”