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War on Iran may provoke a terrorist attack in US – and that may be the point
(www.theguardian.com)
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Dude elections aren’t going to be canceled. That idiot can try but states do what they want by design.
People need to stop saying this, or at least say every time that they can try it but it’s not going to work.
-Person to whom it will happen.
You're still assuming that legality means anything to them. So far, they have been trying to maintain a fig leaf of legitimacy, but that could change at any point. If the military obeys Trump's illegal orders, he can override or ignore any law, up to and including the Constitution. Laws only have meaning if they are enforced. That has not been happening for a while now.
Trump has the capability to send troops to seize state capitals, or to bomb them, or to arrest state governors and legislators. We all hope he won't, but what is going to prevent it if he tries?
The thing we don’t know though is how the general public would react to these types of actions.
The general public is still largely unaware of most of what has been happening, and they still believe they live in a democracy and will continue to do so until they can’t vote in mid terms. That will be the first major wake up call for a huge percentage of Americans and we will see what happens if the regime does take that action.
I agree. If that happens, things will change, but there's no telling in what way. All I can do is cross my fingers and make sure the filters in my painting mask are current.
You realize that "states doing what they want" actually requires those in power to fight back, right?
The state needs a governor that will actually be the first to resist the voter suppression measures and fight back.
I think this is the issue and crisis that Americans can't seem to understand. Laws and "rights" are words on a piece of paper. That paper is less helpful than a roll of toilet paper if there are not people with guns (state police or citizens etc) that are willing to defend the rules on those pieces of paper against the other guys with guns (ICE and military) and their new "federal" piece of paper that says the states are in violation of new pieces of paper.
The pieces of paper aren't what matter. The guys with guns are. When there is a disagreement over the pieces of paper that is when society collapses. No amount of "well the new paper is in violation of the old paper" will stop the guys with guns from coming to enforce it. The "new paper" is now how violence is enforced as long as the guys with guns decide to follow it. And they will.
Governors and states are already passing laws to fight back. That is the correct approach at this point even if it doesn’t feel aggressive enough.
We have to see what the regime actually does before we find out what the next level of response should be. Some governors won’t fight back, but some definitely will. It’s not black and white that everyone would just roll over. There’s a lot of angry people right now and losing the ability to vote would really piss people off. I think that would be the straw that breaks the camels back.