Before we go overboard on "our democracy is gone"

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128. Martial Law

It is not weather Obama would or would not do it, nor weather Trump would either, It is about the fact that "martial law" by it's very definition means Military law or rule in place of civil authority which as far as guardrails go are still very much in place since the military made it quite clear before the election that they would not obey any illegal order that came from the orange one if he were elected. In order for martial law to be implemented the entire civil authority must first be in a state of non functioning, No court's, no cops, etc. This can only be implemented in a specific geographical area, namely the area's immediately affected by some crises that rendered the civil authority moot, and once the civil authority is functioning then the martial law ceases immediately at that point. The Rodney King riots are a case in point, Once the cops abandoned the street's to the rioters martial law could have been legally imposed but it could not have been imposed two counties away where nothing untoward was happening, only where the crises was present and as soon as the cops reasserted control over thing's then the martial law would have ended at that moment. This is not about weather Trump would or would not. I believe he would like the idea,. It simply that imposition of martial law nationwide would be totally impossible without the collapse of civil authority everywhere to justify it and a complicit military who would perforce have to physically occupy every single jurisdiction in the land in order to make it work and they have all ready indicated that they will not go along with something like this. That is why when I see this bantered about I cringe because I know that it is a baseless scare tactic no matter who makes the accusation. That just alarms and scares people who don't realize how absolutely remote that idea is