(08-29-2020, 06:53 AM)The Real Marty Wrote: Opinion polls show that Trump voters are far more likely to vote in person than Biden voters.  And of course, Biden voters are far more likely to vote by mail than Trump voters.  

Therefore, by the day after the election, Trump could be leading in all 50 states!   At that point, he will declare victory and say the mail in ballots are fraudulent and should not be counted.  

The mail in ballots should take about 2 weeks to count.  When they are all counted, enough states will declare Biden the winner to swing the electoral college in his favor.  

And then Trump will go to court in an effort to get enough of the mail in ballots thrown out to swing the election back to him.  This will be Bush vs Gore on steroids.   Meanwhile, there will be civil unrest on a wide scale, with many peaceful protests descending into anarchy, violence, looting and burning.   

The courts declare Biden the winner.  Trump refuses to leave the White House, where he is protected by armed right wing militia and QAnon believers occupying the streets.  Street battles break out between armed groups of extreme left and extreme right wingers.   

Trump is forcibly ejected from the White House by the police backed by the military.  Montana, Idaho, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wyoming secede from the United States.  Alabama debates secession, but they are geographically isolated.  Trump is declared President of the seceding states.  Trump has a heart attack from stress combined with all the junk food he eats, and Don Jr takes his place.  

A wave of right wing terrorism grips Washington DC.  

Civil war ensues.

As awful and over the top as this sounds, it is completely believable. I believe what we are seeing now, is just the beginning of our descent into madness as a country. People are so divided into their conservative and liberal camps and they are becoming militant in their beliefs. I think a lot of it has to do with Covid-19 and the isolation and frustration it has brought to so many people. Massive amounts of people in the U.S. have become mentally unhinged or are teetering on the edge of sanity and depending on who is declared the winner of this next election, it could be a tipping point for them. Quite frankly, I'm worried. I see no good outcome to this thing.

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