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    Reconsidering the Presidential Election

    Reconsidering the Presidential Election

    Link: https://www.unz.com/tsaker/reconside...tial-election/

    The Saker

    ...A lot has happened in the past couple of months and I now have come to conclude that while choosing a captain won’t make any difference to a sinking Titanic, it might make a huge difference to those passengers who are threatened by a group of passengers run amok. In other words, while I still do not think that the next election will change much for the rest of the planet (the decay of the Empire will continue), it is gradually becoming obvious that for the United States the difference between the two sides is becoming very real. Why?

    This is probably the first presidential election in US history where the choice will be not between two political programs or two political personalities, but the stark and binary choice between law and order and total chaos. It is now clear that the Dems are supporting the rioting mobs and that they see these mobs as the way to beat Trump...

    ...The Empire is dying and nothing can save it, things have gone way too far to ever return to the bad old days of US world hegemony. Furthermore, I have the greatest doubts about Trump or his supporters being able to successfully defeat Dem/BLM/Antifa. “Just” winning the election won’t be enough, even if Trump wins by a landslide: we already know that the Dem/BLM/Antifa will never accept a Trump victory, no matter how big. I also suspect that 2020 will be dramatically different from the 2000 Gore-Bush election which saw the outcome decided by a consensus of the ruling elites: this time around the hatred is too deep, and there will be no negotiated compromise between the parties...

    ...I still don’t see a typical civil war breaking out in the US. But I see many, smaller, “local wars” breaking out all over the country – yes, violence is at this point inevitable. It is, therefore, the moral obligation of every decent person to do whatever he/she can do, no matter how small, to help the “deplorables” in their struggle against the forces of chaos, violence and tyranny, especially during the upcoming “years of transition” which will be very, very hard on the majority of the people living in the US...
    Some highlights from an editorial written by "The Saker", a former military analyst who works in alternative media.

    He gives his thoughts on the importance of the upcoming election along with his predictions for what is likely to happen.

    Can't say that I disagree with his assessment. The US empire appears to be in terminal decline on all fronts, foreign and domestic.
    Power always thinks it has a great soul, and vast views, beyond the comprehension of the weak. And that it is doing God service when it is violating all His laws.
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    You have gone over to the Dark Side! SHAME!
    I had high hopes for you, but it turns out you are just another Trumpie!

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    I don't get it, what's he trying to say? That if Trump wins the Dems and their Marxist allies will not like it? Is that supposed to be a surprise?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mini Me View Post
    You have gone over to the Dark Side! SHAME!
    I had high hopes for you, but it turns out you are just another Trumpie!
    I'm the same as ever. You're the one who changed.
    Power always thinks it has a great soul, and vast views, beyond the comprehension of the weak. And that it is doing God service when it is violating all His laws.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Omar View Post
    I don't get it, what's he trying to say?
    He wrote his thoughts down in plain English.

    That if Trump wins the Dems and their Marxist allies will not like it? Is that supposed to be a surprise?
    Did you read the article?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mini Me View Post
    You have gone over to the Dark Side! SHAME!
    I had high hopes for you, but it turns out you are just another Trumpie!
    It actually not a difficult choice to opt for Trump when the option is Biden and the realistic chance of Kamala Harris within a year.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ethereal View Post
    I'm the same as ever. You're the one who changed.
    He seems just as nutty as always.
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    Dude makes sense. I don't share some of his doom and gloom positions, but agree about the election.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ethereal View Post
    I'm the same as ever. You're the one who changed.
    I did not find him serious.
    Call your state legislators and insist they approve the Article V convention of States to propose amendments.


    I pledge allegiance to the Constitution as written and understood by this nation's founders, and to the Republic it created, an indivisible union of sovereign States, with liberty and justice for all.

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    "the decay of the Empire will continue"

    Definitely.

    "between law and order and total chaos"

    To a certain degree, yes. Still about the economy, keep opening or reclosing.

    "I still don’t see a typical civil war breaking out in the US. But I see many, smaller, “local wars” breaking out all over the country"

    Yea, I can see that. And how it's handled will depend on who's elected.
    Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire. ― Gustav Mahler

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