Reply #20: Running out of oil will supercede all other concerns... [View All]

[Kucinich04]

And there will continue to be two parties, Dems and Repubs.

The primary difference between them will remain as it has always been:

Dems = 'Cooperation as a planet' as our only hope for survival as a species (evolved)
Repukes = Military competition with rest of world (and class warfare within our own society) to sustain idea and standard of living of America for as long as possible (primitive).

This country will be at civil war within 15 years, divided along almoost the exact lines we now see dividing us. The entire economy of the world will be collapsed by that time, SS/Medicare will be quaint old notion that was long-before-abandoned as 'unsustainable'.

This is because there are clearly two fundamentally different types of humans: the evolved, rational cooperators who fundmentally believe in logic and science (that would be US), and the primitive, selfish competitors who believe in ancient scrolls and imaginary beings in the sky (the freepers and their ilk).

Shortly after the oil crisis, the real serious effects of Global Warming will kick in, esp. in Europe, synergizing the negative effects, and leading to mcuh finger pointing at the USA for its gluttonous ways and go-it-alone foreign policies. We will be completely isolated, and (rightly) seen as the most obvious destroyers of the earth and her ecosystems.

I'd say it's likely that unless we cooperators prevail and get the rest of the country to begin to think like we do, there's a damn good chance that a civilization ending thermo-nuclear war will result within 20 years, and the US will be on the receiving end of ALL the worlds bombs (but we'll 'get' the rest of the world on our way 'out'...)

Sorry...