Thursday, December 02, 2004
Now is the Winter of our Discontent
Now that PESS (post-election stress syndrome) is ending, and the new administration has started to shape up, we are entering pre-ignaguration December with a more sober sense of what awaits us. In some way, the violent pre-election passions have dissipated. We now are left with just a chill, a breezy foreboading. Here's what's circulating in the atmosphere, like the descent of a cold, foggy night:
*The WHO is predicting a world-wide bird-flue epidemic that could kill anywhere from one hundred million to a billion people (meanwhile, we can't get a simple flue shot).
*Bush has stacked his cabinets with toadying cronies, so there will be no more leaks and debate about White House policy.
*The army has finally admited that we will need to be in Iraq "for at least a decade."
*The dollar is falling (though that can be as much a good thing as a bad thing, as long as it doesn't fall to far). The only thing keeping America afloat is that if America sinks into recession, it will pull the rest of the world with it - so the rest of the world is forced to help us carry our exploding debt.
*Deficits can now freely rise forever and there's no one anymore who even even cares to pretend to be concerned about stopping it - all the Congress cares to do is spend freely on pork, outlaw abortion, and bash gays.
*Major networks are increasingly censoring any dissent from the administration's right-ward leaning kulture-camp.
So it takes very little extrapolation to see a few years from now: Millions of Americans dying of flue as the world enters a world-wide recession and people are turned out of jobs to die on the street. Meanwhile major networks play nothing but mindless reality game-shows, Congressment and their cronies travel in medically sealed bubbles and build walled-fortress estates, and religious leaders and the white house blame it all on gays and abortion. The unrully, unsanitary mob's only outlet is to round up books that trumpet liberal values and burn them on the street. At that point, we we all be used to it, and may not even notice when Canada and Spain begin restricting the emigration of Americans. The big immigration problem will be that we can't get OUT of this country, not in. Then, without our hardly noticing, we will officially be a third-world banana republic.
Then maybe, if we are very lucky, human-rights loving countries like South Africa will protest America by imposing sanctions, and the French will lead a pre-emptive strike movement to bomb US.
*The WHO is predicting a world-wide bird-flue epidemic that could kill anywhere from one hundred million to a billion people (meanwhile, we can't get a simple flue shot).
*Bush has stacked his cabinets with toadying cronies, so there will be no more leaks and debate about White House policy.
*The army has finally admited that we will need to be in Iraq "for at least a decade."
*The dollar is falling (though that can be as much a good thing as a bad thing, as long as it doesn't fall to far). The only thing keeping America afloat is that if America sinks into recession, it will pull the rest of the world with it - so the rest of the world is forced to help us carry our exploding debt.
*Deficits can now freely rise forever and there's no one anymore who even even cares to pretend to be concerned about stopping it - all the Congress cares to do is spend freely on pork, outlaw abortion, and bash gays.
*Major networks are increasingly censoring any dissent from the administration's right-ward leaning kulture-camp.
So it takes very little extrapolation to see a few years from now: Millions of Americans dying of flue as the world enters a world-wide recession and people are turned out of jobs to die on the street. Meanwhile major networks play nothing but mindless reality game-shows, Congressment and their cronies travel in medically sealed bubbles and build walled-fortress estates, and religious leaders and the white house blame it all on gays and abortion. The unrully, unsanitary mob's only outlet is to round up books that trumpet liberal values and burn them on the street. At that point, we we all be used to it, and may not even notice when Canada and Spain begin restricting the emigration of Americans. The big immigration problem will be that we can't get OUT of this country, not in. Then, without our hardly noticing, we will officially be a third-world banana republic.
Then maybe, if we are very lucky, human-rights loving countries like South Africa will protest America by imposing sanctions, and the French will lead a pre-emptive strike movement to bomb US.
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