The election results have already been determined and they are just going thru the motions and I can see within the next ten years a civil war breaking out.
Think you might be more optimistic than I. Foresee a civil war coming far sooner than a decade. It would offer a ripened excuse for rolling out more robust automation and third stage artificial intelligence.
"Oh look we have a civil war among the classes, among the different political/religious/sexual orientation/color factions, That does it we, the capital need automated labor to replace the warring humans. Let them continue fighting, killing one another off to further the depopulation goal as well."
Imho, that would be quite a masterful stroke of genius however darkly it seems. All the rest of our seeming woes, the allegedly impending WWIII, the financial collapse of the petro-dollar, toxic produced food, unlimited prices on Epi-pens, police brutality, war on [Insert Whatever Here] ... merely illusionary smoke screens and distractions.