All my life I’ve been naïve.

I could never believe that Hollywood was as evil and corrupt as I discovered it was—after my script disappeared from a meeting (or so my agent told me)—after a friend came back from a bachelor party full of actors and producers and described how the groom-to-be showed his carnal prowess by banging the ladies hired for the occasion (one after another) right there on the living room floor to the rhythmic applause and cheers of the men invited to the party.

And now, from afar, after leaving the land of Good&Plenty, I could not at first believe that the greed and lust for power of a few malignant narcissists and their sycophantic followers could commandeer a country like the USA.

It has happened.

I am no longer naïve as regards Hollywood. I am no longer naïve as regards the USA. However, if you think you are going to have what are known as midterm elections in 2026, then you are the one who is naïve.

If in the first 6 months of his rampage, the Orange Monster has already done so much damage, then what makes you think he and his anti-democracy colleagues will not be able to destroy the balloting system in United States by November of 2026.

The easiest way to get rid of elections is to declare the system broken and in need of repair by the party now in power in all three branches of government. So elections will be postponed until congress is able to repair the system. Postponed and postponed and postponed until people forget that voting used to be a thing. And with the attention span of the average American, that won’t take all that long, especially after the major networks finally kowtow to the leader and eliminate all the critics from their broadcasts.

It worked in Russia. It worked in China. It worked in Hungary (the model currently being imitated by the MAGAistas). Why shouldn’t it work in a country where minds have been dutifully scrubbed by big PR since Edward Bernays got the machine rolling during The Great War (no, not the MAGA civil war planned to come—World War One).

Another possible scenario is that a faux election will take place. It will kind of look like an election to the bleary-eyed screen-watcher, but wherever a Democratic Party candidate is running and could be elected, the election officials and those that count the ballots in that district will be MAGAistas—installed by hook or by crook—who will make sure the right candidate wins. That being the candidate from The Right.

Protesting congresspeople and senators could be arrested for something or other during the next 18 months and then declared ineligible to run for office. The same can happen to judges and lawyers who defend those accused of crimes against MAGAnimity.

And then of course, there is the Insurrection Act of 1807, a wonderful catch-all bludgeoning hammer that all sorts of presidents (the good, the bad and the ugly) have used on numerous occasions in the past. If used intelligently (a lot to expect from the morons currently in charge), it could even turn blue California into a blood red state.

In any case, my advice to the hopeful and still naïve is: Don’t expect normal anything to happen in the next 18 months. It will only get worse. Unless of course, as some knowledgeable people predict, the whole digital coin world fizzles out and leaves all these greed-soaked idiots clutching cyber wallets full of emptiness.

On the other hand, some generals behind the generals could finally, finally get sick and tired of the mess being created and just round up all the sleazeballs, take them by helicopter, jet or train and bus to their favorite concentration camp stadium, Caesars Superdome in New Orleans, where they can be stars in the new Reality TV show: Hell or High Water.

Hell or High Water: The captured MAGAistas and bankrupt Tech Bros contestants are taken to Caesars Superdome in New Orleans where they fend for themselves and compete for survival. If they do survive, they go to simple lifelong incarceration in an Alabama penitentiary. The task they need to complete? Each contestant must choose either to run naked through a burning five-story building, or swim naked for 200 meters through shark- and barracuda-infested waters in a massive tank especially constructed on the floor of the superdome—reminiscent of similar original events in the Colosseum in ancient Rome.

Of course if the MAGAistas are not stopped and elections never again take place—as the Orange Monster promised—then it will be Hell or High Water for every surviving member of We The People in the USA.

And who knows, maybe for the rest of us over here as well.