America: Damned if Trump Wins, Damned if He Doesn’t.
Koh Lanta Island, Thailand, September 19th, 2024.
Salaroche

Some (or perhaps many) people living in the United States don’t seem to be fully aware of the current delicate situation in America. I have talked over the phone with friends in Oregon and California whose sources of information are mainly their local TV channels and newspapers, who have told me that life in their towns, cities, and counties goes on as normal as ever.

They say they haven’t seen any signs of alarm or even concern among their neighbors or anywhere else in the streets about the perilous national situation that I see from abroad. A friend in San Diego was even suggesting that the J6 insurrection was just another example of how unique Americans are in expressing their political views.

As I see it, however, my friend is just in clear denial of the country’s fragile situation, which might be a sign of how superficially the threat to American Democracy is perceived even in cities like San Diego whose pro-Democrat leaning is higher than that of the country’s average.

With the exception of my daily reading of The Guardian, a reputable Center-Left English Newspaper (pro-Labor Party, pro-Democratic Party), and some occasional visits to the BBC Website, all my sources of information are American, although they never include FOX News, Breitbart News, NewsMax, WorldNetDaily, or any other such blatant pro-Trump, pro-QAnon, organs of extreme-right propaganda.

The way I see it, the inflammatory political discourse that has been widely and constantly disseminated in the America media over the last near-decade, has by now accustomed Americans to it and has numbed many of them to any warnings regarding the potentially-disastrous consequences the November elections might have for the country.

This in spite of the results shown in national surveys like the one conducted by the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) in partnership with the Brookings Institution, which concluded that 75% of Americans believe that the "future of American democracy is at risk in the 2024 presidential election," (See here) while 23% of them agreed that "because things have gotten so far off track, true American patriots may have to resort to violence in order to save our country," (idem)  

Still, regardless of how factual the concerns expressed by those surveyed Americans may be, large numbers of them are still undecided as to who the next president should be. They are still unable to see the magnitude of the disaster that stands to befall the country after the elections, if not even before, as whether Trump wins or loses in November, the United States quite probably won’t be the same after the elections as it is today.

If Trump wins legitimately, which I sincerely doubt he will, it will mean that the authoritarian political appointments and policies outlined in Project 2025 will immediately start being decreed. But if he doesn’t win, things might not be any better.

We all know the Vulgar Bully won’t have the guts to concede defeat and is already poised to instigate the Maga hordes he commands to a J6-like revolt, except that this time the insurrection might be armed, much larger and more violent than the first one. From abroad, the future doesn’t look very rosy for the United States.

I have been warning my friends and acquaintances about this kind of dangers since June-July 2015, but those concerns are no longer mine alone. Pro-Democracy world leaders are growing alarmed that the outcome of the November elections might even be violent, while those of the authoritarian and dictatorial sort keep hoping that American Democracy crumbles and that the country falls into an urban-guerilla-style bloody civil war.

The fall of American Democracy would not only serve to vindicate the alleged superiority of undemocratic political systems in the eyes of those despots who preside over them, it would also send the rest of the “Free World” spinning down an uncertain international sociopolitical spiral that may end up generating a global conflict of proportions only seen twice before in the history of the world.

Vote Democrat in November. The future of American Democracy and of the sociopolitical stability of the rest of the world depends on it.

To read an article that elaborates on the subject, please click here.

Salaroche