If Trump is not in office Jan 21, and the deep state criminals are not arrested, then there is no election period in 2024. America would have to exist again first.
It's far easier to have slaves if you have convinced your slaves that they are free.
Likewise, it's far easier to have a totalitarian dictatorship if you have the people convinced that elections matter and work. When they realize that elections are meaningless, you have to go hard dictator instead of soft dictator. And that's more expensive, harder, and runs a higher risk of overthrow.
Though as far as nations are concerned, "it's better to serve in heaven than reign in hell" (yes, I'm flipping it). What I mean by this is, a soft dictatorship having the full power and resources of the United States of America with a docile public grants more power for the ruling class than having a split USSA/USA as separate nations, or a single nation with hard dictatorship having to be exercised to maintain power and keep the people in line.
They are scared of losing the status quo of the docile public.
They aren't scared in the sense they are more than willing to flex that hard power, but they recognize that actually makes their position more precarious and makes their power weaker.
If Trump is not in office Jan 21, and the deep state criminals are not arrested, then there is no election period in 2024. America would have to exist again first.
It’s all political theater so they can use the military and persecute conservatives. None of them are scared.
Holy crap I didn’t realize how many conservatives were this dense
They ARE scared...after a fashion.
It's far easier to have slaves if you have convinced your slaves that they are free.
Likewise, it's far easier to have a totalitarian dictatorship if you have the people convinced that elections matter and work. When they realize that elections are meaningless, you have to go hard dictator instead of soft dictator. And that's more expensive, harder, and runs a higher risk of overthrow.
Though as far as nations are concerned, "it's better to serve in heaven than reign in hell" (yes, I'm flipping it). What I mean by this is, a soft dictatorship having the full power and resources of the United States of America with a docile public grants more power for the ruling class than having a split USSA/USA as separate nations, or a single nation with hard dictatorship having to be exercised to maintain power and keep the people in line.
They are scared of losing the status quo of the docile public.
They aren't scared in the sense they are more than willing to flex that hard power, but they recognize that actually makes their position more precarious and makes their power weaker.