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1968, LBJ decides not to seek re-election so he can focus on ending the war in Vietnam. Henry Kissinger, the man who is supposed to be coordinating the peace talks makes a backroom deal with Richard Nixon. In exchange for derailing the peace, he will get a position of power in the Nixon administration. Nixon beats Vice President Hubert Humphrey by the narrowest of margins. Under Nixon/Kissinger, the war in southeast Asia escalates and moves into two adjacent countries, directly leading to the Killing Fields of Cambodia. Nixon/Kissinger are also responsible for the assassinations of elected presidents in other countries and the killing of civilians in those countries by U.S. backed dictatorships. Oh, and Kissinger decides that the best way to defuse the nuclear threat posed by India is to supply nuclear weapons technology to Pakistan.
Nixon gets in trouble. Not for his war crimes or those of Kissinger. Not for the shootings at Kent State. Not for the assassination attempt on George Wallace, who was siphoning off southern conservative votes. He is brought down after he has the nerve to play dirty tricks against some of America’s richest and most famous people. But he never stands trial. His successor, Gerald Ford “pardons” him.
Sensing that the Republican Party is now seriously tainted in the eyes of most Americans, David Rockefeller picks Democrat Jimmy Carter to be the next President of the United States. He runs on a platform of “change.” He is likened to Jesus Christ. He beats plenty of better qualified Democrats in the primary and sweeps into office, where his lack of national political experience makes him a sitting duck for his Republican opponents. When the U.S. embassy in Iran is captured and Americans are taken hostage, the national news media via ABC declares that “America” is “held hostage” and for months the country is told each night (in effect) that Jimmy Carter is a dickless wonder. When they are not reporting on Carter’s lack of a penis, the mainstream media will be telling Democrats on the left how much they despise Carter, and how little they care whether or not he beats his eventual Republican challenger.
Come 1980, David Rockefeller, Carter’s one time supporter, is the bag man for the Hostages for Votes deal with Iran which pushes Reagan and Bush into the White House. In years to come, the Reagan administration will pay dearly for that backroom deal, as Iran forces them to do things like sell them weapons (under guise of raising money to fight the Contras). Eventually, the first Bush will start a war, when he tricks Sadaam (Iran’s arch enemy) into invading Kuwait and then uses that invasion as an excuse to take him down.
Back at home, Ronald will insist that AIDS is God’s judgment against gays, and he will delay funding for AIDS research leading to the deaths of innocent Americans. Bush will get tired of being the power behind the Reagan throne, and his supporters in Texas will send one of their own to Washington to get rid of Ronald, who, despite being the oldest president ever, manages to survive. Though few will voice their suspicions aloud, the movie The Manchurian Candidate will be re-released, as Americans realize that its premise is not so far fetched after all. Oh, and despite all that money it was supposed to have raised selling arms illegally to Iran, the Reagan administration will find it necessary to sell crack cocaine in this country, in order to pay its “freedom fighters” abroad. The crack epidemic will be a great boon for George Sr. when he runs his “scary black man, Willie Horton” campaign against Dukakis in 1988—after tabloids ruin the chances of Democratic front runner Gary Hart by exposing his affair. Bush’s own infidelities, though well known in Washington, will remain unreported until 1992, when Spy dares to wade into the ex-CIA chief’s private life. There will be no significant mainstream media coverage of Bush’s adultery.
In 1992, when Bush’s disdain for the plight of the needy working class American proves to be his undoing, he will exit the White House but leave behind a mole, Linda Tripp, an ex-military intelligence secretary. Years later, Tripp will conspire with a former Nixon dirty tricks operative, Lucianne Goldberg and Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr to set up a perjury trap for then President Clinton. Starr will succeed in his appointed task---the office of the Independent Counsel will be abolished, to the great relief of Bush-Cheney.
Speaking of Bush-Cheney, the pair will be selected by the SCOTUS after Brother Jeb fails to get enough Florida Democratic voters stripped from the rolls in an illegal scheme targeting African-Americans were names are similar to those of felons. Protesters at the inauguration will outnumber supporters, and Bush’s popularity will continue to drop, because of policies like the FERC’s decision to allow Enron (Bush’s biggest campaign donor) to price gouge the state of California. Bush will court the Taliban in Afghanistan, in an attempt to broker a pipeline deal for Enron, which is secretly in deep financial doo doo. When the Taliban rejects the pipeline deal, the Bush administration will draw up plans for the invasion of Iraq, and then they will look the other way when intelligence warns of an Al Qaeda attack on the U.S. When 9/11 comes, Bush will embrace it. For the next seven years, 9/11 will become his greatest victory. He will commit the United States to two foreign wars, he will spy on his political enemies, he will rewrite the Constitution---all in the name of preventing another 9/11.
When even 9/11 can not get him elected in 2004, Bush and his advisor Karl Rove will scheme to illegally disenfranchise Ohio Democratic voters, with the help of that state’s Secretary of State, Kenneth Blackwell. When that plan fails to turn the tide, they will resort to blatant fraud. Votes will be changed, exit polls will be suppressed. Fallujah in Iraq will be raped to distract the press. Though 25% of Americans polled will say that they think that the election was stolen, Bush will be sworn in for a second term.
2005 will see the end of Bush’s popularity as he ignores the plight of New Orleans, where millions of people are stranded by rising flood waters after hurricane Katrina. Instead of sending aid, Bush’s advisers will conspire to use the flood to their advantage. Democratic voters will be forced from the city, and their houses will never be rebuilt. The Katrina reconstruction fund will become a huge slush fund to aid companies that support Bush-Cheney. Halliburton will be among the chosen.
In 2006, the administration’s allies in Israel will invade Lebanon, in a futile attempt to provoke Iran into declaring war against the U.S. The other two wars (and the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy) have already drained the federal coffers and erased the surplus amassed during the Clinton administration, but apparently the United States is not drowning quickly enough in Grover Norquist’s bath tub. The only thing that saves the country from a third war is the Pentagon’s refusal to participate in yet another war for oil.
The 2006 midterm elections will be a disaster for the Republicans. The kind of election theft which they have perfected is based upon stealing votes in one or two key battleground states. They do not have enough dirty tricksters to cover all the nation’s representative districts. But that will not stop some of their biggest campaign supporters from making a killing off the American people. Medicare Part D will allow drug companies (many of them located in Europe) to drive Medicare to the verge of bankruptcy. Bush will stockpile oil and then refuse to release it when speculators drive the price to record highs. The banks will offer worthless bits of mortgage paper as "sound investments"---robbing people of trillions of dollars of pension money. And every time Congress tries to check Bush-Cheney, something will make them change their mind, presumably blackmail info gathered from the warrantless wiretaps that began in early 2001, before 9/11. In the days after Martha Stewart, anyone whose stock broker ever suggested that they buy or sell based upon any kind of information is now a potential target for the Bush DOJ, meaning that almost every Congressman---or Congressman's wife or brother or son---is now in danger.
By 2007, Bush and Cheney are so massively unpopular that the 2008 presidential election is a foregone conclusion. The nation is fed up with Bush-Cheney. It is ready for a “change” again….
And so the mainstream media will declare a relatively unknown Senator from Illinois a front runner. He will run on a campaign of change. His campaign will recycle the message of Jimmy Carter from 1976. The press will declare him the breath of fresh air which the nation needs after eight years of Republican executive corruption.
While Obama is rushing headlong towards his inevitable victory, the GOP will be planning its strategy for 2010. Bush will hand the banksters a huge slush fund. Citizens United v. the FEC will be carefully planned and timed---and the outcome of the SCOTUS case will be decided beforehand. The day after the ruling, conservatives will announce that they have already formed SuperPacs, and they will invite rich folks from across the world to donate unlimited amounts of money. Money will do in 2010 what election fraud could not do in 2006. The GOP will make huge gains in Congress.
In 2011, Republicans will make it their mission in life to destroy the economy. The mainstream media will repeatedly tell left wing Democrats that they made a terrible mistake with Obama, and that he is single handedly to blame for every ill in the country. If he tries to take a stand, he will be called a “dick”, and if he tries to be conciliatory, he will be called “spineless”. The right wing press will call him a socialist, the left wing press will call him a Republican. A relative novice when it comes to political dirty tricks, Obama will miss every opportunity to fight back. When the Washington Post quotes unnamed Republican sources as saying the president wants to cut Social Security and Medicare, he will allow the Big Lie to fester….
Now, ask yourself, if given a choice would you rather:
1. Contemplate the history of our country and learn important lessons for the future
2. Gouge out your eyes with red hot pokers
3. Move to France
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