A World Without Republicanism

[Joanne98]

Wed Oct 07, 2009 at 11:12:28 AM PDT

I was standing on a bridge last night, ready to commit suicide over the inability of our government to actually DO anything about stuff like health care, reigning in the greed of Wall St. and the Banksters, the millions of foreclosures, the increasing number of homeless resulting from that, kids going to bed hungry while CEO make 57,000 dollars an hour, the trumpeting that the recession is over while we have HUGE unemployment, the Corporate control of our government, the fact that we STILL find it necessary to kill Brown People in various locations around the world and of course....Climate Crisis. When, all of a sudden....a funny little man appeared beside me just as I was about to jump.

"Wait," he said, going completely off script, "let me show you a world without Republicanism!"

I thought for a moment and then realized that the 6 foot drop into a culvert of dirty stagnant polluted (by Republicanists) water probably wouldn't kill me...but might give me a nasty case of tetanus or e coli or something and said...."Sure, dude, like, whatever."

We walked back into a different town than the one I had left. A town designed to minimize travel by car, well planned with pleasing greenery and solar panels and brightly decorated windmills everywhere. We passed the geothermal plant, the community run, government funded, child care center/health clinic, the streets were well paved and there were no potholes.

Bright little Mom and Pop stores lined the streets with nary a Big Box store or national franchise to be found. Apparently without them, the citizens of the town were able to make a comfortable but not excessive living supplying their neighbors with goods and services instead of wearing stupid ass uniforms and working at Target Mart for just above minimum wage while all the profits were shipped to the vaults of The Ruling Class thousands of miles from our community.

The sun rose over the well funded and technologically advanced public school, and a news boy was dropping off the early edition of the local paper, the headline read 'World Peace Boring the Heck Out Of the Planet's Armies"

I looked at Clarence and he saw my raised eyebrow. "Yes, World peace!" Clarence said, "without a Foreign Policy based on extracting resources from poor countries or exploiting poor people for cheap labor, the warring nation's of the world finally ran out of excuses to kill people." He frowned. "There is still some terrorism but on a planet of six billion people ("Wait!" I exclaimed, "SIX billion people??? Clarence winked and whispered in my ear...."Birth Control and intelligent Family Planning!") there will always be malcontents that can find some reason (mostly religious extremism) to want to blow up their fellow humans. Fortunately, well regulated and monitored International Law Enforcement groups are able to contain the worst of it. After all with so many happy people in the world, the unhappy ones tend to stand out. Negotiators and moderators have replaced the bulk of armies though, and so most disputes are taken care of well before they erupt into violence."

"It worked well in the Middle East, where we finally learned that a HUGE percentage of the worlds violence actually WAS based on economic disparity. When we shifted from funding the defense industries into providing food, shelter, medicine, education, job training and infrastructure to the world's hot spots, it worked remarkably well!"

It seems the decades of education and economic equality funded by money that used to be spent on killing people ...and long denied or quashed by Republicanist lawmakers had produced an educated and informed world wide electorate, who over the decades had embraced democracy and equal civil and economic rights and peacefully overthrown or voted out most of the world's bad actors. Apparently....once voter suppression efforts by The Ruling Class had been eradicated world wide and everyone had voting rights and true access to their elected representatives....

Access that lobbyists and special interests did NOT have, thanks to the fact that every election was financed by the public, and the quaint notion of Corporate personhood had been...executed...

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http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/10/7/790591/-A-World-Without-Republicanism

[Vincardog]

1. the quaint notion of Corporate personhood had been...executed..THE FIRST STEP

[Demeter]

2. Sounds Like Heaven on Earth, with Amenities

Sign me up!

By the way, it's 6 billion because all the Republicans, or those with fascist tendencies, got Raptured out.