From outside the box

I can't believe that McCain actually has a chance to win this election! How can this be? The republicans couldn't mess things up any worse than they have in the last eight years, and the democrats are still having trouble taking back the white house. The American people have gotten screwed left and right, and it seems that were ready for more.

So I've been wondering what life would be like if the conservatives had complete control over all levels of government from now on, if everything went their way. Here's what I come up with....

There would be a constitutional amendment to incorporate the ten commandments. This of course would lead to a theocratic type government and soon it would be hard to tell the difference between our so called democracy and Islamic governments.

All major corporations would soon take over and control the election process. Public voting would be a sham, just to let the people think they were still in control. Drug and oil companies, financial institutions, insurance companies, war profiteers, they would basically be writing their own legislation, much as they do now whenever the republicans are in charge.

Environmental protection and animal rights would be scrapped altogether because they would interfere with corporate profits.

Anybody speaking out against the government would be labeled as unpatriotic which would be a felony punishable by either prison or being expelled from the country...."America, love it or leave it" would become law.

Minimum wage would be abolished. Taxes would be raised on lower income families and erased altogether on the super rich because, after all, it's the super rich who give us our jobs and the better off they are, the better off we all are.

The oil companies would immediately put the brakes on any and all alternative energy programs (via their bought and owned right wing congressmen of course). In time, all coast lines on the western and eastern seaboard would be polluted and unusable because of oil spills and accidents. But it will be justified because that is a small price to pay for the energy we need.

There would be no regulation of industry.

Our national debt will peak out in 20 years at about 20 trillion dollars. We will have no more borrowing power. This is when we start looking at expanding our boarders.

Women would be forced to carry all pregnancies to term, regardless.

Everybody gets a gun.

Soon the middle class disappears altogether. Two percent of the people will own 98% of all the wealth and property and the other 98% of the people will live in poverty and share the remaining 2% of property and wealth.

All movies and entertainment will be rated G, PG or PG 13. R and X rated will not be tolerated under religious law.

In time the religious faction and the corporate factions of the government will bump heads. When they do....all hell will break out. Religions will realize that they were only allowed to have the power they did because it served the corporate's purpose by keeping the masses under control.

In 50 years from now....every semblance of what America now is and all that it has ever stood for, is history.
We can make this a reality. Just keep voting republican.