I Think Its About To Come To An End

[ThomWV]

This love affair the country has had with its warmongers and antisocial legislators will be coming to an end soon. The people will move on to some other Fad. The first indicator will be drops in attendance at NASCAR races and then the numbers of the admitted Born-agains will start to drop. The Republican party will retake its rightful place as the minority party. I expect these things to happen in due course and I expect we will see the tide turn in 2006. However there is one thing that I am absolutely certain of, and you may come back and quote me on this a year or two from now. These past several years will be noted as the "Golden Years of the Republican Revolution". I'm willing to bet that will be the exact phrase that will be used.

Mark my words, Reagan just got it started, this is their heyday.

Thom

[deadparrot]

1. If only...

I hope you're right. I fear if you're not.

We can't go on like this and claim to live in a democracic republic, or in any form of democratic government.

[annabanana]

2. from your fingers....

to God's,. . . um
(nevermind)

[WLKjr]

3. I hope you're right, and I hope

we as democrats become reminded of just how hard we HAVE TO FIGHT to keep the constitution intact and fight for the common man (and woman).

[JDPriestly]

4. Yes.

The pendulum always swings. And when it swings our way, we had better be ready to make sure democratic values become a self-understood part of American life. We will need to guard against the possibility that extremists like the Bush administration are in a position to place our personal rights in jeopardy.

[Protagoras]

22. As always though the question is...

how long does it take that pendulum to swing? The Dark Ages lasted a looooooong time.

[whistle]

5. One can only hope they'll just dry up and blow away....

...however, if history is any indicator of how reluctant certain groups are to relinquish power, the republican revolution will leave lots of blood and shattered lives and wounded souls for years to come. Look at the decade of the great depression.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

6. You might be right.

There is a deep vein of dissatisfaction running through the nation right now, regarding the repukes, as evinced by the MSNBC/WSJ poll. On the present course, as laid out by Rove and Cheney, this can only grow. Another attack on our soil will not have the shock value that the last one did. In fact, it could, after all the "precautions" only serve to darken the mood more, for it would evince failure.

I said it before and I will say it again: by the 2006 elections, people will be in the streets. The lid will be off this sucker.

The Dems, if they play it right, will be able to overwhelm any attempts at voter fraud, by shear numbers of votes.

[Ron Green]

7. I think that for this to happen, people will have to suddenly start

reading, and thinking about things, and acting thoughtfully. I don't know what would cause such a thing as spontaneous mass education, other than some sort of cosmic gearshift.

[cally]

8. I'm not sure Nascar has anything to do with this

but I do think this can't last long. If we take one house in 2006, then we can start stopping this junta. If we don't, then I'm afraid we may lose any semblance of a democracy.

[QC]

18. The NASCAR obsession around here is positively bizarre, isn't it?

Apparently it's a genteel way to express class prejudices that would not be as acceptable if stated openly. That's all I can figure.

[Dogmudgeon]

9. $10 per gallon gasoline

15%/year inflation.

A return of escalating crime rates.

Increasingly intrusive police powers.

Destruction of the middle class.

Acceptance of politically motivated violence.

Drastic decrease in sexual activity, marriage, and childbirths.

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie accused of holding pedophile satanic drug orgies after purchasing Neverland ranch from terminally ill Jacko for $20.5 mil.

--p!

[alfredo]

10. They will go with alternatives like methenol or like back in the

sixties some quarter midgets ran diesel. I think there were some diesel Indy cars.

[demgrrrll]

11. Great, the United States of Thunderdome. eom.

.

[Dogmudgeon]

12. Where are they going to get the methanol and/or diesel?

I'm not trying to be belligerant, but we're going to run smack into some nasty petro-karma in a few years -- and The Powers That Be like it that way.

$10/gallon gas is a lot more effective at keeping people in line than custom-tailored political scandals. The Neo-Cons started in that kind of economy, and by Gawd, they'll give us that kind of economy again before they depart.

--p!

[alfredo]

15. I was just saying the racing teams will adapt. I was in a very

poor country. Even when fuel was short, they found enough to organize a car race through town. A good time was had by all.

I don't dispute that we are totally fucked.

[Dogmudgeon]

17. Oh ... racing ...

I didn't notice that part.

I'm sure there will be sufficient fuel allocated for sports and entertainment. Even if gasoline becomes a "boutique fuel" -- more expensive to produce than the energy in it is worth, but required by specialized engines -- there will still be some produced.

As for being totally fucked, that depends on how much effort we put into our own earthly salvation. Which means, looking at history, that we are totally fucked.

--p!

[alfredo]

20. Those lost civilizations didn't just die from conquest, many

died because they used up the resources in their area. They just packed their belongings and left for greener grass. That model worked when our population was small, but now we are running out of areas to exploit.

We don't need zero population growth, we need a bit of negative population growth.

[Carni]

13. I hope you are right

I just want the US that I grew up in back...

[Imagine My Surprise]

14. Too entrenches right now...give it another

five years at least. Way too much media collusion for it to fade in a year.

[Media_Lies_Daily]

16. Oh...is some other group going to be controlling the....

...the voting machines in 2006?

[Zen Democrat]

19. Have you seen *'s poll numbers today?

This may not be referred to as the "Golden Years" -- it may be known as the "Neo-McCarthy Era." Bush may be looked upon in coming generations as another, worse, Herbert Hoover for the Republican Party.

Every political party eventually goes too far and the pendulum swings. The Right is pushing the pendulum so fast and with such force that it's gonna backfire in a huge way.

Of course, I could be dreaming. But, I think the crazies on the Right will do it in.

[rniel]

21. When you start to see

poll numbers of republicans at 25% approval ratings yet they win all the elections held, maybe then people will start to realize what's going on here.

[Hubert Flottz]

23. Yes...but only if...

I forget to buy me a new watch battery the next time I go to K-Mart!