Falcrack wrote: ↑Fri, 31. May 24, 15:39I know not many will change their votes if they had been planning to vote for Trump. But millions should. One of my own brothers included.
If Trump wins, we'll have a convicted felon as president whose chief goals will be to take revenge on those who opposed him, gut the justice system and replace it with those most loyal to him personally. Democracy in the US, and indeed around the world because of the influence of the US, will be in grave peril.
If Trump loses, his millions of deceived followers may very well resort to armed violence to try to overturn the results of the election. There is a 0.000% chance that Trump will accept an electoral loss and concede that his loss is legitimate, and many of his followers, who believe every lie he tells, will decide that their only option is to "stop the steal" through violent means.
Whatever happens, one thing is certain. We live in interesting times. Not since the civil war has the nation been this polarized. And I mean this without any hyperbole at all.
All of what you said here is true, however I feel like the people willing to participate in an actual armed revolt will be relatively small, should he loose. Their failure of a riot on Jan 6, no matter who threatening it was to Democracy, probably gave them a feeling that these actions do not accomplish anything. I’d assume most of them resolve to crying on Twitter.
That being said protests even those done with the best intentions can turn nasty at a moments notice. Personal I have taken part in and organized a lot of protests in the past and I can remember one protest in particular where a woman that was part of the protest and a political candidate for a party was attacked and beaten into the hospital by a member of a rival political party. There was tension before, but honestly that attack really came out of nowhere, nobody assumed that there would be more than a bit of shouting.
