I figured there might be no better time to ask this, since events are generally close to some kind of resolution (as opposed to, say, last year), there are more known factors now, and asking after the worst case scenario comes will probably get answers warped by emotion (even more so than now, I mean).
Feel free to turn the knobs in any way you so choose. For example, I’m sure your reaction could be different depending on how blatant any cheating is, and what the makeup of the new Congress is like.
Nothing under any circumstance? You can’t imagine a scenario in which you’d take to the streets, participate in a general strike, mildly contemplate asking for asylum in Canada during your morning coffee, anything?
Apart from the odd outburst of heat and anguish on social media he’s been mostly benign to us on this side of the puddle. Sure, all manner of global things spoken about could have become totally rogered, but he’s not a guy with much persistence in his follow through.
Suspect that for the US this is a “let all the poisons that lurk in the mud hatch out” situation and if the past four years aren’t enough of a cautionary tale then another term is something we will simply have to watch on in horror.
Do my best to be a good human, protest when I can. Donate to Democratic candidates, organizations, and causes, and get my financial ducks in a row. There’s not much I can/could do other than try and preserve my sanity as I watch my country swirl down into the sewer
Check out Google news every morning hoping to learn that the fucker died overnight.
ETA: On second thought, I think it would be worth waiting to see him die in jail.
I have no idea, really. I’m torn between staying and watching the place burn while it turns into a completely unrecognizable place from where I grew up and moving to a different country. However, given that my mom was just diagnosed with cancer and unlikely to be able to move anytime soon, probably nothing but encourage my kids to get out when they’re of age to do so.
Another vote for nothing. If it’s a fair election, there’s nothing to protest. If he steals the election, it’s unlikely I’d make it to a protest with an infant at home. Every instinct I have right now is to shelter in place and avoid violence.
Go on with my life. Other than the damn pandemic, life is fine. My hardcore liberal or LGBTQ friends have a lot of fears, but so far they are thankfully unfounded at least in my state.
Hopefully if Trump wins Congress will go Democrat, I think things are generally better when one party controls the White House and one controls Congress. It makes the pendulum swing transition from one party controlling to another a little less extreme.
Can’t imagine much of anything significantly different.
Mainly count my good fortune at being relatively healthy, financially secure for present and foreseeable future, comfortable, educated, white, and male. (Not that I personally have anything against anyone differently situated, just acknowledging that I personally have it better than they, for no fault of my own.) I imagine I would be more generous, especially towards my close family and friends, but would imagine upping my charitable giving.
As others note, having the Sen turn blue would greatly lessen the pain. And having the Sen stay red, will greatly lessen any effectiveness of a Biden administration.
Another probable nothing. I’m a middle-aged white guy zeroing in on retirement in the next couple of years, I’m at least loosely financially stable, I live in one of the deepest blue parts of the country and I despise crowds and won’t do mass protests*. Basically I’m privileged enough that the “only” thing I have to worry about is the complete breakdown of civil society, which unfortunately I believe would become more likely but still far from guaranteed. As with others I’m hopeful that if the Democrats can at least control or partially control Congress, which I suspect they will, that will at least help slightly mitigate the coming damage.
*I’m not anti-mass protest. I just despise being crowded as above and spent far too much time on picket-lines as a little kid as a legacy of politically engaged parents and spotty childcare.
What exactly can I do? Put on a pink pussy hat and #Resist?
I’ll still live in a blue bubble and try to take back the senate in 2022, I assume if Trump wins reelection, the R’s keep the Senate.
Trump being so incompetent actually means things aren’t as bad as they could be, it’s really only Covid where his incompetence has shown. I really think he thought it would just go away.
With the economy in shambles, he’s going to lose a lot of the adoration and I can’t think of any lame duck president who hasn’t faced the knives of his own party.
Nothing (such an original answer, I know). What is there to do? If he wins fair and square, so be it. It’s a depressing thought for sure, but we’ve been living with ever-increasing depressing thoughts since Trump was elected.
If he blatantly steals the election, I will gladly participate in peaceful protests about it, but I wouldn’t expect anything to come of it.
That may sound like apathy, but it’s not, it is simply recognition that there is nothing I can do as an individual to change things. I’ll continue to donate to liberal causes, vote, volunteer in my community, reduce-reuse-recycle, and otherwise do my tiny little part. But I’m too old and living in too remote a location to imagine I could do anything that’s going to have much of an impact beyond my immediate environs.
I will quietly mourn the state of a society that could actually elect a man president who panders to racists, misogynists, the rich elite, and foreign interests. We will have truly hit rock bottom in terms of national character.
Not even going to pretend that a win by Trump would be “fair and square”, and I certainly don’t expect him to settle down and behave. If need be I have strong roots on Guam, where I can bide my time until they declare independence from the administration that has continually screwed them over for the last four years.
I’ll probably want to delete my social media accounts, sign up at the shooting range and obtain a ccw permit. Install security cameras and board up the picture windows. I’ll hoard groceries, fuel, cash and booze. And spray paint a provocative go to hell Trump message on my roof.
Hey, don’t be a quitter! There’s PLENTY lower we could go! But seriously, I agree with the sentiment that I will be very sad to be a part of a society that could take such actions, and I will feel sorry for the future my generation is offering to my kids and grandkids.
