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Fuchsia
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I'm calling this right now. The elites will only be able to keep radicals (both alt-left as well as alt-right) at bay via propaganda, social suppression/bullying, election fraud etc for so long, until it just won't be good enough. Once it gets to a point where 30-50% of the population is basically voting for extremist parties (be it commie or fascist, or perhaps even Islam?) they won't be able to hold on to power democratically.
Here is what I think will happen, in the case of Europe at least.
Basically, they will eventually give the EU the right to overturn elections. They won't call it that course. Instead, they will basically create a list of "prerequisites" that new national governments must fulfill in order for any new government to be "legal" or "approved". Merely trying to make individual parties or candidates illegal via some kind of "hate speech" laws won't be good enough, because not every country will be able to consistently enforce those. Or want to. They will also make it illegal to leave the union without permission from the EU parliament, thus making it impossible for individual countries to leave on their own. They will enforce these rules via some kind of as of yet created EU military force.
Some say they will just try to rig the elections. I don't think so. For starters, election rigging arguably isn't even that effective in a multi-party system (the norm in most european countries) since parties don't actually need 50+% of the vote in order to make an impact. Secondly, it would be hard just rigging all the votes everywhere.
The only real course of action for the elites, therefore, is just getting rid of voting.
Some conspiracy theorists will make the case that this is the purpose of the endless lockdowns, and that they will be used an excuse to "postpone" all future elections forever. Or that the social ID system they are no doubt working on will be used to prevent "undesirables" from voting. Problem with this idea is that it only works as long as dissidents are a small minority. If 30-50% of the country just fucking hates you and you just suppress all of them it makes it obvious what you are doing. It would just create even more backslash.
Simply, the elites must get either get rid of voting, or lose in the long term. Voter/social suppression and propaganda will work for a while, but not once you are hated by almost everybody.
We are in for some interesting times.
I give it 4-12 years until we get to a point where they start banning votes/elections.
Here is what I think will happen, in the case of Europe at least.
Basically, they will eventually give the EU the right to overturn elections. They won't call it that course. Instead, they will basically create a list of "prerequisites" that new national governments must fulfill in order for any new government to be "legal" or "approved". Merely trying to make individual parties or candidates illegal via some kind of "hate speech" laws won't be good enough, because not every country will be able to consistently enforce those. Or want to. They will also make it illegal to leave the union without permission from the EU parliament, thus making it impossible for individual countries to leave on their own. They will enforce these rules via some kind of as of yet created EU military force.
Some say they will just try to rig the elections. I don't think so. For starters, election rigging arguably isn't even that effective in a multi-party system (the norm in most european countries) since parties don't actually need 50+% of the vote in order to make an impact. Secondly, it would be hard just rigging all the votes everywhere.
The only real course of action for the elites, therefore, is just getting rid of voting.
Some conspiracy theorists will make the case that this is the purpose of the endless lockdowns, and that they will be used an excuse to "postpone" all future elections forever. Or that the social ID system they are no doubt working on will be used to prevent "undesirables" from voting. Problem with this idea is that it only works as long as dissidents are a small minority. If 30-50% of the country just fucking hates you and you just suppress all of them it makes it obvious what you are doing. It would just create even more backslash.
Simply, the elites must get either get rid of voting, or lose in the long term. Voter/social suppression and propaganda will work for a while, but not once you are hated by almost everybody.
We are in for some interesting times.
I give it 4-12 years until we get to a point where they start banning votes/elections.
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