-Caveat Lector-
What is going to happen to America if Bush becomes president?
Since Al Gore, for the most part, has completely distanced himself from
the core constituency of the Democratic party, and it looks like he has
little chance of changing his act, which consists of more of "the same
old-same old," I think it's very possible that we might have a Republican
president and a Republican-dominated Congress.
Once being handed that kind of power, it will only be natural for the most
extreme elements in the Republican Party "to finish the
agenda." First off, the religious right will start pressuring
President Shrub for a number of Christian measures to be adopted. Not
wanting to be left out of the party, the corporate neo-liberal crowd
will demand more "market freedom," so we can expect an escalation of
mergers, plant closings and the few manufacturing firms that still remain
here will probably head offshore. (result? higher standard of living for
those who have, lower standard of living for the have-nots.)
Next, in order to give new life to the military-industrial firms, a few
more brushfire wars will have to be generated in order to justify
an arms buildup. So, an escalation of global violence is inevitable.
Finally, we can expect rollbacks in education, because,
after all, according to New Century logic, why do wage slaves need
education in the first place? Education for what? Many
"conservatives" are already
looking forward to the day when they can eliminate public education
altogether.
Left stranded working for subsistence wages, trapped in urban centers, the
fate of millions of Americans in Bush's New Century will not be a
particularly bright one. When the American people finally wake up and
learn that they've been conned, of course, it will be too late. Because
once the fascist right has had their taste of absolute power, they're not
going to want to give it up.
I don't think the Bush presidency is going to be a particularly "moderate"
one. In fact, I believe that the right wing will finally be given what it
wants: a Republican president in partnership with a Republican-controlled
Congress. They've spent at least twenty-five to thirty years stewing in their
animosity and hate. For a brief period before the Oklahoma City
bombing, the drumbeat of hatred and bigotry was almost deafening if
you had the misfortune of tuning into talk radio during that period.
But with a Bush presidency, they will want victory: the final
and complete eradication of all traces of "liberalism" in the country.
So, we can say goodbye to the few civil liberties we possess.
At last, they'll be able "to clean house."
Dubya will be consigned to rubber stamping each idiot measure that
comes off of the hill. He will have no choice.
Of course, the extreme right has a problem. Not everyone in America is a
member of the flying monkey right. There are all those OTHERS who will
have to be dealt with. And once they start their plans for
"mobilization," we can expect the return of the draft, the creation of
motivational "camps" not only for not only the nation's urban youth, but
the camps will be the destination of many adults as well. Of course
there will be violent opposition--but the right wing isn't particularly
worried.
Now, I know that some of you might argue my prediction is too
chiliastic...after all, Americans have always liked fascism with a
friendly face. Orwell's boot eternally stamping down on a human face
won't play in America. But I think we have a new crowd eager to play with
the controls.
The Bush presidency will be just the ticket for the extreme
right to enter those final stages of complete psychosis. It wasn't too
many years ago that Oliver North was calling for the implementation of
"martial law" in Reagan America.
Now, interestingly, on the opposite end of the political spectrum, the
extreme left sees the coming of a Bush presidency as a blessing. As the
last few economic safety nets are quietly removed by the wrecking crew,
and as the misery index escalates, many leftists know that a
revolutionary potential will be created. They see it as a window of
opportunity. Social distress generates militancy. All it takes is a
spark. They see the millions of people who now make up the
nation's underclass, a group of people who have been PERMANENTLY consigned
to servile status by the ruling elite, as potential revolutionaries.
Out of the coming unrest, they envision a new political dynamic emerging.
But our corporate masters seem to be sublimely untroubled by how the
masses of people are going to respond to the nation's final slide into a
police state. Why this is so, I can only attribute to the fact that they
no longer are interested in the idea of political legitimacy.
They already possess the technological means to control us and they're not
particularly worried.
Of course, hopefully, my chiliastic predictions might not come to pass. I
hope not, but I'm not particularly optimistic.
So, as we drift towards our date with destiny...lo and behold...what
strange beast is slouching towards Bethlehem? Or as Yeats also wrote,
"the centre cannot hold/ things fall apart..." The twenty-first century
is literally going to be one hell of a ride.
Wm
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