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Americans have been carefully socialized to be polite, and "wait and see."
But we have also been raised since the beginning on tales of underdog Revolutionaries, winning against the mightiest army in human history, and going on to become the mightiest nation in human history. That is a strong thread running through our national DNA.
We have put up with a lot, counting on our system of government to get us through this mess, and we only have two more elections to get through, and we will know where we stand. There is an excellent chance that the Dems will prevail, and if can convince our elected leaders to do their jobs (I know, I hear ya), we could actually take back this country, and reconfigure it to reflect the original promises of our Founding Fathers, and our Founding Documents. It will be since in a century opportunity, and we can't squander it this time, again.
But if MAGA cancels elections, that's a BRIGHT RED LINE that has never been crossed in our history. It literally means the end of American Democracy. If we won't fight for that, then we deserve to lose it.
But it won't just be the Cancellation of Elections that will motivate people. That would mean that MAGA has finally decided to deploy their final end game, and become a Dictatorship. That will be accompanied by such a brutal crackdown, that nobody will remain polite anymore. All it will take will be one or two serious violent uprisings in which MAGAs are harshly punished, with either little retaliation, or, over the top retaliation, and it will break loose everywhere.
It will take a lot before the dam breaks, but it will break eventually, and when it does, it will be really ugly for MAGA.