Reply #8: Could go either way [View All]

[Prophet 451]

Could all turn out more-or-less ok

OR, if Bush is succeeded by someone similar, you end up with a fracturing union (USA on the coats and much of the north, Jesusland everywhere else), an economy that makes Brazil look stable, grades of citizenship (read Heinlein's "Starship Troopers") and most of Jesusland ruled by a series of de facto dictators who may make a pretence of elections but somehow, never lose...

To be honest, it might already be too late to prevent that. Reagan/Bush I and Bush II moved the political centre so far to the right that, in comparison, Clinton appeared a man of the far-left (despite being pretty centrist in his policies). What worries me now is the tendancy for a successful pattern (Bush's ultra-right policies) to spawn more and more extreme imitators. Between her views and the opportunity to accuse anyone criticising her of sexism, I could honestly see the Repubs running Ann Coulter, she's just the logical progression of what they've been doing for years.