Help me out here, someone.
How are we going to recover as a nation? Game it out for me in a realistic fashion. I need to know. Right now, there isn’t a day that goes by where I ask why I stay. I have the opportunity to leave whenever I want. The only thing keeping me in the US is me not wanting to disrupt my kids life too much. That’s it. The only reason why I’m staying. My alarms are going off in my head all the time, as all my instincts are telling me that we’re on a crash course and I can’t see how we can pull out of it. Even my non-political wife who grew up here told me yesterday that she doesn’t want to stay here anymore, because it feels like we’re becoming a 3rd world country.
Can someone else game out a good path?
We’re two countries in one, but we’re living on top and among of each other, so separation is totally impossible. One population tries to live according to the founding principles of the US, respecting the law and institutions. The right wing part considers the non right completely illegitimate and potential traitors.
The right now are fine with elections that have a majority D vote producing a veto proof R majority, because they get to rule.
The right is fine with endless investigations of D’s in power, because they’re D so they’re guilty of something. If they’re not guilty, the investigations will de-legitimize them anyway so they’ll be out of office.
The right lives in a world completely detached from reality. Scientists across the world is conducting this massive world-wide conspiracy to ensure that the US goes broke and people can’t drive their cars. The CIA, FBI etc, all filled with a majority of R’s in the ranks are conspiring to frame a president. Gun violence can be cured with more guns, as long as it’s only whites who gets to keep them, etc. etc.
The right is fine with lies, adultery, bribes, environmental destruction as long as an R is in power, will install R judges and at the same time upset D’s
The right is fine with destruction of 100’s of years of ruling traditions and push the laws to the extreme if it will ensure that the courts are packed with R judges.
The constitution is a tool for the right to ensure R rule. It means nothing when R benefits from breaking it. It is a sacred document when it limits Ds.
The right is fine with turning the state apparatus (military, law enforcement, civil service) into a partisan tool by hiring/firing/promoting based on political views.
I could go on and on. The gist of it is that the right pretty much is willing to blow up the whole country as long at it gets to rule, because in their mind, the non-right is untrustworthy and evil. The right are acting like they’re in an existential fight. That means they will fight with any means they can to retain power.
So how does this end? Game this out for me, so that it ends well.
The outcomes I see are as follows:
1) D’s try to maintain norms and traditions. Rs don’t. They pack the courts with Rs. They gerrymander and suppress votes in enough states that they maintain federal control. With the federal control they run roughshod over the the majority blue states.
a) Blue states gets upset, and starts ignoring federal mandates. Severe cracks in the USA
b) Blue states does nothing. USA stays intact, but no longer a true representative republic as minority rule is cemented.
2) D’s fight back and/or wins at the polls on a federal level. The minority R population realizes that their ability to control is now over.
a) Rs go apeshit, frantically packing courts, obstruct and refuse to accept federal rule. Severe cracks in the USA
b) Rs quietly accept the new reality that they’re in a minority and all will be good. their views will be heard, but carries no more weight than the rest.
How do we get to 2b? Lay out a path that is realistic and also probable, and give me some ease of mind. I can’t see it, but I desperately want to see it. Please.
