I really hope the coming election week crisis is just in our heads and not real.

Like Y2K, I only hope our preparation and experience has already saved us. In the way 2018 prepared us for a high-volume election, Y2K made us check and test everything. It was an exercise in finding out how well we knew our software and our systems. 2020 will be a test of how well we can administer an election while an incumbent president does his best to undermine our political and civil systems.

All we have to do, is keep the polls open, peaceful and orderly during the voting hours. And when the polls close, we must do the business of counting the votes and reporting the results within 6 hours, as usual (aside from counties where the margins are tiny, of course).

There would have to be a 9/11 level of breakdowns if election day turns into doomsday. The Secret Service would have to side with Trump over the people. So would the military. So would local police. The news media and corporations wouldn’t. So how much blood is spilled on the streets of our nation might depend on how the Fortune 500 handles a Trump loss. They handled the legalization of same sex marriage pretty well. Let’s see how they handle Trump declaring victory on Election Day and telling his supporters to commit mass murder.

If that happens. If Trump and his cult resort to killing hundreds or even thousands of citizens in our streets, then we fucking deserve it. It means all of our systems failed.