Posted on 09/14/2020 7:46:32 AM PDT by Drew68
This is the era of expecting the worst while hoping for the merely tolerable. Some might say that the worst is already happening—economic disaster and 190,000 dead from a pandemic—while the president and his surrogates insist, in a feat of self-delusion, that the “best is yet to come.” As someone who has argued against catastrophism—I don’t believe Donald Trump is a fascist or a dictator in the making, and I don’t believe America is a failed state—I find myself truly worried about only one scenario: that Trump will win reelection and Democrats and others on the left will be unwilling, even unable, to accept the result.
A loss by Joe Biden under these circumstances is the worst case not because Trump will destroy America (he can’t), but because it is the outcome most likely to undermine faith in democracy, resulting in more of the social unrest and street battles that cities including Portland, Oregon, and Seattle have seen in recent months. For this reason, strictly law-and-order Republicans who have responded in dismay to scenes of rioting and looting have an interest in Biden winning—even if they could never bring themselves to vote for him.
In presidential elections, once is a fluke; twice is a pattern. I struggle to imagine how, beyond utter shock, millions of Democrats will process a Trump victory. A loss for Biden, after having been the clear favorite all summer, would provoke mass disillusion with electoral politics as a means of change—at a time when disillusion is already dangerously high. If Democrats can’t beat a candidate as unpopular as Trump during a devastating pandemic and a massive economic contraction, then are they even capable of winning presidential elections anymore? Democracy, after all, is supposed to self-correct after mistakes, particularly mistakes as egregious as electing Donald Trump...
(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...
Yup.
Got it at the magazine kiosk in the Valley Mall in hagerstown.
Seriously, so true. Reminds me of the way a teenager will work a situation to their advantage when they believe you don’t have a brain.
Even Mad Magazine became angry and humorless in it’s last year with TDS
I’ll repeat this till the day they vanish!!......THE MEDIASNAKES NEED TO BE DECAPITATED FOR THE SAKE OF OUR NATION’S SURVIVAL!!! They are killing us slowly and surely!! It’s them or us!!
Yep. Brownshirts, defund the police, propaganda and control of message.
And I’ve suddenly realized that I was reading that stuff when I was 12.
That explains a lot about my sense of humor.
:D
We must burn the Atlantic’s office to the ground!
Not sure what he’s on, but I’m pretty sure it’s illegal.
That has my vote. And execute every traitor inside.
I wish I could've posted the whole thing but Atlantic required an excerpt. If people are at the paywall limit, I was able to read it all in a private browsing window.
They know the polling is shifting, might not have been true to begin with, and they're really getting nervous.
Funny thing is, one absurd argument the writer makes is that we need to vote for Biden because he's leading in the polling!
Why are Outlandish articles allowed on FR? They are lying propagandists. They shouldn’t be posted here.
What’s a Shadi Hamad?
If the leftist losers continue to riot, we have a lot of prisons. If we run out of s, use the empty loser nfl stadiums.
I’ve always said these fake polls that always have the Democrat in the lead ( then later the R wins ) are dangerous.
The author seems to be confusing the concepts of law and order.
Order comes from imposed authority, so if we want to live in an orderly society, we should let the left take over and impose their order.
The law represents the template within which free people can build successful lives, so if we want to live in a lawful society, we should do everything in our power to destroy the left and return to the rule of law.
I vote for law.
Quite true,.. and needs to be repeated !
We don't have a Nevil Chamberlin to sell us out,
instead we have "The Atlantic", a ghost of publications past.
In the world of "Never Forget"(post 9/11), there is an attempt to repeat history.
This is why the Nihilists de-emphasize history and civics.
"Those who ignore history are bound (or doomed) to repeat it" - George Santayanna (paraphrased)
Gen-X'er here. Born in '68. I must've been 13 or so when I found a box in my parents' closet full of old National Lampoon magazines from the 60s and 70s. The classic issues. I read every one over and over again and cherished them all.
The Left used to be funny.
It’s getting to be that way but they are instigating things! It’s their fault!
It's boring preaching to the choir, pretending none of this stuff outside our safe little forum is happening.
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