Well, that was the whole point of the recount. To push the election to Congress so that the entire Trump administration could be denounced as Illegitimate by the mainstream news. This has never had anything to do with uncovering fraud.
It can't do that anyway. Recounts are irrelevant to EC voting, just as the entire Election Day charade is. Neither Wisconsin nor any other state Constitutionally needs to know how their population voted, or if they voted at all. That premise of the OP was shot down wid a quickness.
The only purpose of this recount is to thwart the will of the many states that elected Trump. The only result will be in the public becoming even more disgusted with the elites and professional politicians. Perhaps the Democrats are praying that Congress can be pressured into selecting Hillary. If that is the idea, then you better stock up on canned food and shotgun shells before that happens, because there will be the second American Civil War as a result.
That's at least the second time I've heard that dystopian prediction. The first guy I asked why it would mean that. He ran away. So let's hear your explanation --- why the **** would it mean a "second American Civil War"? Because Rump hath decreed it? Do you know anything about the actual Civil War?
Several POTUSes have been elected with even less popular support than Rump's 46%. Some even while losing the popular vote None of them resulted in civil war --- not as a result of an election.
Ok, let's begin with the first Civil War. Technically it wasn't a civil war. A Civil War is where two or more factions are fighting for control of the nation as a whole. The incorrectly named Civil War was a war of independence, which was lost by the Confederate states.
Why I think it will lead to a Civil War if the election is stolen? Easy. Why did the South secede from the Union? Because even though they had voted as a block for Douglas to be President, they lost. They had no power in Congress as long as the northern states stood together. They believed they were little more than a vassal state. So they rebelled, and tried for independence.
Now, what will the American Public do if Hillary is elected by either faithless electors or Congressional action under the 12th Amendment? They won the election according to the rules, and had that victory stolen from them. The argument that we are a nation of, by, and for the people will lose all validity. Those people will be furious, and will feel that the system is so rigged against them that there is no recourse within the system.
Angry people take action. It won't be the American Revolution, or even the ill fated Southern Seccession. It will be the French Revolution. Nobody will agree on what they want to replace the current system, but they will all agree that they don't want what is in place now. It will rapidly devolve into a mirror image of Libya, where factions control territory and battle amongst themselves for dominance.
I know the arguments against. The US Military. Mighty and proud. And small. Very very small. Check the numbers. Even including every active duty person, including the Navy and Air Force, you can't come up with more than a million people. Add in the National Guard and Reserves, and you can almost reach two million. Hell let's pretend that the troops in Korea, Okinawa, Germany, and all the other places are going to be some sort of help, which they won't. You are still outnumbered dramatically. I'll toss in local cops and state cops with the Federal Agents, and you can't reach four million. How many of them will walk away instead of fighting for a corrupt system that denied the people their choice?
California would stay loyal, but Texas would break away early. There goes a lot of national guard troops. Worse, that pretty awesome military is now in real trouble. Because tanks, planes, and all that other awesome equipment requires fuel in great amounts. During Napolean's time, an Army marched on its stomach. Today it floats on a sea of fuel. Tanks are getting perhaps four miles per gallon. Oh, don't drive them you'll say, get the truckers to carry them. How many truckers are going to? If you say half I think you would be dreaming. You would be lucky to get a quarter of the truckers carrying fuel and tanks here and there. And you would be burning tons of fuel to protect those vulnerable convoys. Fuel you couldn't spare.
Why would the people revolt? Because the person who won by the rules was cheated out of the victory by the very elites that the people rebelled against with a vote. Do you think that they would accept the same elites telling the people this is the best thing for them? At first a few would act, and the Government would stomp them down, and then the people would slide into the rebellion camp.
The only way to stop it is to act before it gets started. Knock off the nonsense about turning the electors. After all the threats even if you got enough to sway the election to switch, people would believe that they changed their votes not on conscience but because of people holding guns to their families heads. It would go violent, and there wouldn't be anything Hillary could do to stop it.
Where would the Government win? California which wants to secede and the other costal states. But all the states that produce fuel would go against, starting with Texas. If Texas goes that's about twenty percent of your fuel production gone. While you need more to get the military helicopters and planes flying constantly, you'll have less. Oh, and those pretty planes need hundreds of hours of maintenance for every flight. You can put it off for a while, but eventually you will have to bow to the laws of physics and deal with the aircraft repairs.
Food into the cities would require tons of organization, and federalize get the same truckers who aren't going to willingly drive for you now.
A rough estimate would put it at about a quarter of the military would just refuse to fight. You could make examples of some of them, but then they would leave in the dark of the night, and you would burn up a lot of loyalists guarding the less reliable that you have to have.
Cities riot when injustice is seen. Communities riot when one person is killed by an authority figure. How do you figure that the people won't fight when an even greater injustice is seen?
I told people who voted against Obama to calm the hell down, the nation would be here afterwards. I'll tell you the same thing. The nation will be here in four, or eight years. The nation will only be destroyed if the thin veneer of political power being in the hands of the people is shattered once and for all. That is the day the nation takes its last gasping breath.
