(11-18-2020, 08:29 PM)Black Aeronaut Wrote: Let's calm down a bit.
My concerns are primarily with individual actors from the Alt Right.
By and large, I think our faith in the democratic (not the party) process hasn't been moved, due in large part to how smoothly election day went, and how unflappable and unshaken the count process has been, demands for recounts aside.
The process is working, folks. There is strong evidence of this. Our primary concern should be what the Alt Right intends to do once all of Trump's legal avenues have been exhausted.
I'm concerned with what BOTH extremes are likely to do.
If Biden wins, I hope and pray some dinguses on the right don't unironically advocate for an ironic role reversal American Civil War 2.0. If he wins, I hope they realize they need to sit down, shut up, and if they are really convinced the election was stolen, and the court system did not agree, then they lost. In that case, lose with some dignity.
If Trump wins, I hope the same for the left. This is not the first election to have contested results hashed out in court, we have a court system for this, and thus far it seems to be doing what it's supposed to. If the end result is something half the country doesn't like, they just need to be the better people and live with it. Any fool on either side who insists on violence in response to election results they don't like after all legal avenues have been exhausted is someone who deserves imprisonment or, if they resist with lethal force, death for posing a danger to a society of law.
And I hope it does not come to that for anyone for BOTH sides.