My prediction: There will be riots and looting, which will be squashed by police and/or military. The riots will increase until martial law is declared.
The US will become an effective dictatorship, but no-one there will call it that and that word will be conspicuously absent from other English media elsewhere in the world, despite that being precisely the right word.
Eventually, the leadership’s grip will weaken as the old guard dies off and people with marginally less extreme views take up positions of power. In time, things will loosen up and regular, genuine elections might start happening. First at a local level and then eventually spreading country-wide.
This will, of course, take the rest of the 21st century to play out.
Just in time for the next pandemic, and the next round of riots because the biosphere’s wrecked.
Yay, humanity!
(I’d like to be wrong about this, but it’s been seen enough times before.)
My prediction: There will be riots and looting, which will be squashed by police and/or military. The riots will increase until martial law is declared.
The US will become an effective dictatorship, but no-one there will call it that and that word will be conspicuously absent from other English media elsewhere in the world, despite that being precisely the right word.
Eventually, the leadership’s grip will weaken as the old guard dies off and people with marginally less extreme views take up positions of power. In time, things will loosen up and regular, genuine elections might start happening. First at a local level and then eventually spreading country-wide.
This will, of course, take the rest of the 21st century to play out.
Just in time for the next pandemic, and the next round of riots because the biosphere’s wrecked.
Yay, humanity!
(I’d like to be wrong about this, but it’s been seen enough times before.)
Nah, I think would be more like a Syria situation, a de facto split of the country for an extended perid of time.