Follow the polls. Recent polls show that Trump is not suffering. (One poll, Rasmussen, I think, has him leading - but it is not a releable one (to be kind.) All the others. though, show him as being remarkably steady at 40 to 42 percent. It is quite possible he could beat a Biden - and maybe even Sanders.
And it's very, very possible there could be dangerous levels of violence no matter who wins.
Many Americans, especially evangelicals, believe that God wants them to conquer the world - Just as God wanted the British to rule the world in Britain's days of power. And (forget what your school history books tell you) almost all wars are fought to benefit the very wealthy. And, yes, that includes almost every war of more than the last century and more. World War One happened because the capitalists of almost ALL the European powers wanted it So it was an alliance of British, French (with colonial help). The British forced even the Blacks of South Africa into it - and a great many of them died fighting for a Britain that had reduced them to poverty. And, the British didn't bother to bury the dead of South Africa in miilitary cemetries. No. They just dumped them in unmarked pits.
World War Two in Europe and Africa was much the same in that it, too, was really the same capitalists fighting each other. Our news media, as always, preferred to see the war as us good guys and the other side as bad guys. In fact, it was World War 1 all over again. It certainly wasn't to save the Jews. All of the western world knew about the Jewish death camps BEFORE the war. And we were, if anything, supporters of those camps. (The British Empire had a history of even worse mass killing of innocent people.) We pretended we didn't know until late in the war. But our leaders and our capitalists did know. That's why they stole Palestinian land to give to a Jewish state. It wasn't to help the Jews. It was to get rid of them.
The Americans joined the war very late. Obviously, they didn't care. But they entered the war for the same reasons as European capitalists - to make money. American capitalists wanted to steal China, to plunder it, as Britain had. It also wanted French-Indo China (Vietnam) but it lost that one too, after World War Two. The Korean War was a late attempt by the U.S. to get a base for an invasion of China.
Oh, a footnote to all this. In World War Two, the U.S. Rockefellers, with the full knowledge Roosevelt's government, supplied Hitler with his ALL his oil for all of the war. It was done by Standard Oil (Esso). Rockefellers also supplied Germany with much of its explosives - AND it supplied poisons for the Jewish death camps. The Rockefellers all were, of course, devout Baptists who prayed and who read The Bible every day and went to church every Sunday.
And the European war? A major reason for the U.S. to enter that war had nothing to do with evil Germany. It had to do with getting control of Britain's oil fields in the Middle East. And it has done quite well at that.
You want to see real evil? Check out the record of American (and Canadian) capitalism in Latin America. And check out the really murderous treatment of refugees fleeing the horrors we have made of their home countries in Africa and trying to get into Europe, only to be pushed into vile camps or, more often now, kicked back to die in the sea.
Let's not kid ourselves. Canadians, Americans, British, French, Germans don't live in Christian countries. (In fact, even Hitler sold himself to the German people as a devout Roman Catholic - and the Vatican played along with that.)
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