# How are you preparing for the coming fascist authoritarian regime?

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**Category:** Politics & Elections
**Created:** [June 18, 2022, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-are-you-preparing-for-the-coming-fascist-authoritarian-regime/966426 "2022-06-18T12:35:19Z")
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### Author: ![SenorBeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senorbeef/32/2220_2.png) [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2022, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-are-you-preparing-for-the-coming-fascist-authoritarian-regime/966426/306 "2022-06-23T04:42:43Z")

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> [@Horatius](#):
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> And I’m pretty sure that’s what would trigger the civil war. If 81 million people woke up Jan 7th to find out that their votes had been uncermonioulsy tossed in the garbage, and even 1% of them decided to go shoot a local Republican Official, that’s _810,000 murders in one day_.

That’s the whole point - given how tepid the response to the current coup attempt is, I very much doubt that will happen. Democrats don’t have fight in them, this is the whole discussion earlier about our history has been whitewashed into thinking that violence is never the answer and you’ve always got to engage in peaceful protest only in all situations.

I think both the democratic party and the democratic voter base would just roll over and accept it if this happened. There would be some grumbling, some articles written in the New Yorker, maybe some formal letters of protest, but no meaningful action. We don’t have enough fight in us to really fight a coup. Too many of us are so desperate to believe everything is normal - and there’s evidence of that in this very thread - that we’ll somehow manage to convince ourselves that an obviously rigged election and an overthrow of government are all just part of politics as usual and we don’t have to do anything. People will still be saying “oh that’s the sort of thing that happens in banana republics, it can’t happen here” even while it’s happening. You see that today with a huge percentage of the American population refusing to acknowledge that Jan 6 was a coup attempt, [even/especially on these boards.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-wasn-t-a-coup/930407)

Honestly I think the only chance we have is a military counter-coup. The US military has incredible institutional strength and philosophy and they really drill into them the importance of the constitution and the US idea of civics. I think they might actively fight against a coup. Obviously, in general, you don’t want your military taking part in a coup, but I think ours is the rare situation that our military would actually be on the right side. My concern is that right wingers have had years to replace the men of integrity who value this country with their own sycophants.

> [@Jackmannii](#):
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> Dismissing the importance of voting, or being apathetic about it on the grounds that Republicans will find ways to overturn the outcome, is far more dangerous than any restrictive voting law or post-election shenanigans.

No, it isn’t, because post-election shenanigans trump voting. You can’t vote yourself out of a rigged election, this should be really obvious. You can’t vote against things that invalidate your vote.

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