If You Haven't Seen the Movie Civil War - See It!
This movie shows us what could happen whether Trump wins a second term…or not (no spoiler alert necessary).
This article is not a retelling of the Alex Garland film called Civil War. No plot points will be revealed because reality has enough of them to permit me to completely disregard this story from here on out. I will say, though, that when I left the theater and ran into an exiled journalist in the lobby, my first comment to him was, “Geez, I am not sure if that was an artistic interpretation of our times or a documentary film.”
Standing there, our heads shaking in mutual agreement, we kind of just emitted sounds and grunts of, “What the f***?” The movie is powerful not because it opens the viewer up to new ideas but because it dots the i’s and crosses the t’s for us. It shows us what could happen if Trump wins a second term and what could happen if Trump loses in November. Trump is already preparing the world and, most frighteningly, his cult followers (one seen in the image above) that if he loses, it is likely because “they” — the vermin, the traitors, the Marxists, the Communists, the Socialists, the gays, lesbians, and transgender people, the Mexicans, the Chinese, and the Biden crime family) “stole the election from us again.”
“If everything’s honest, I’ll gladly accept the results. I don’t change on that,” Mr. Trump said, according to The Journal Sentinel. “If it’s not, you have to fight for the right of the country.”
In an interview with Time magazine published on Tuesday, he also dismissed questions about political violence in November by suggesting that his victory was inevitable.
When pressed about what might happen should he lose, he said, “if we don’t win, you know, it depends. It always depends on the fairness of an election.”
Mr. Trump’s vow to “fight for the right of the country” also echoes his speech on the Ellipse on Jan. 6, where he told his supporters that “if you don’t fight like hell, you’re not going to have a country anymore,” before urging his supporters to march to the Capitol (Repeating Election Lies).
Trump is preparing, and this movie answers the “For what” question. Many delusional former Trump supporters, the non-MAGA ones but ones who liked what Trump’s tax cuts did for their stocks and 401k’s, will scoff at my pronouncement. They will regard the movie as silly and an exaggeration, but they do so because they don’t want to admit how stupid and greedy they were to support him in the past — and may do so again.
The MAGidiots, many depicted in the film, are lost. Until they digest the Flavor-Aid drink and fade off to dirt, we are stuck with their lunacy. This movie targets the greedy Trumpists who could possibly vote for Biden. It draws a picture for the voters who voted once or twice for Trump and consider not doing so a third time. The movie, however, is scary, and sometimes fear does not work — “Wear condoms, or else you will die of AIDS!” These scare tactics didn’t work for many people, and that is why AIDS became the epidemic it did. “Don’t smoke because it will kill you!”
“Don’t vote for Trump because if you do, civil war will happen!”
It’s a scary thought but nestled in the freezing cold of a hundred-thousand-dollar car or perched in front of a $5000-dollar TV in a million-dollar home, the lure of safety, the whisper of seemingly endless creature comforts assures you that nothing like what is seen in the movie could “really” happen in America. After all, we are a society with rules and laws, and order prevails. Does it? SCOTUS has shown us it doesn’t. Trumpist sheriffs all over the country will one day soon prove to us that their law and order is not blind but all-seeing and able to root out “criminals” with the kind of x-ray vision only Superman had.
The Trump campaign and the Republican National Committee have made an aggressive approach to “election integrity” — a broad term often used by Republicans to cast doubt on elections that the party lost — central to their efforts heading toward November.
Last month, the committee announced a plan to train and dispatch more than 100,000 volunteers and lawyers to monitor the electoral process in each battleground state and to mount aggressive challenges.
On Wednesday, Mr. Trump said at the rally in Freeland that his campaign and national and state Republican parties would put together “a team of the most highly qualified lawyers and other professionals in the country to ensure that what happened in 2020 will never happen again (Repeating Election Lies).”
It is not only Trump getting on stirring up the big, steamy pot of gumbo-like bullshit. Republicans all over the country are talking about “election integrity.” Hearing those words come out of the mouths of Republicans is like hearing that the local drug dealer has launched a neighborhood crime watch. An army of extremist stupid, many likely to be heavily armed, will be flooding polling places all over the swing states in November. They will ensure that “nothing unsavory happens (Read: that no ‘unsavory’ people cast their votes).”
The Russian journalist I saw in the lobby immediately suggested that every American should watch this movie. I added that it should at least be shown in schools. This would never happen because millions of Americans will find this movie offensive. The movie is not for MAGidiots. It is for everyone not violently opposed to a second term for Joe Biden. It is very every protesting student who thinks that Gaza is the promised land. It is for every war-mongering pro-Israeli American who thinks a second Trump presidency would be better for Israel. Nonetheless, even liberals want to avert their eyes from this potential train wreck.
“The idea of another American Civil War happening today actually keeps me up at night,” wrote one reader on an American Civil War subreddit. “This is a movie that I want to keep far away from, even if it’s based on a political scenario so far removed from our own. I just do not want to entertain the notion of something so horrible (Provokes Timing Debate).”
The guy who wrote these words seems like the type who, in theory, agrees that safe sex is better for him but doesn’t like the scare tactics that relate unprotected sex with death. This movie relates Trumpism and MAGA with our end: Like it or not, it is something for which we must be prepared.
This is not a public service announcement but a warning. Trump is not messing around, folks.