As predicted, Obama won. Not only that, both the Senate and House of Representatives have been taken by the Democratic party.
Here’s the litmus test – what are they going to do about the Patriot Act, Patriot Act II, torture used in interrogations, Guantanamo Bay, the Iraq war and a myriad other horrors we’ve suffered through the last two terms? There’s no pathetic excuse of laying low due to the elections anymore. If they don’t stop the secret spying on Americans, the water-boarding of captives held without charges, the waging of war in the Mideast on whims of chasing phantom terrorists – then they will have proved what I’ve been saying all along – they are no different than the Republicans and beholden to Plutocrats who pull their golden strings.
I predict very little will be done to change any of these issues. Once government has power, it is loath to release it. Instead, I predict a steady, heavy march toward European style socialism. Handguns and “assault weapons” will be made illegal to own very soon now (they can’t afford an armed populace with the upcoming economic collapse.) Much of our supposed free market industry will be nationalized, including the airlines, automotive manufacturers and probably power plants. Cap and trade regulation will strangle what isn’t held by government authority, with the excuse of fighting global warming. You see, the government is broke and it has only one source of relief – raping us – the People and our small businesses.
Oh, I nearly forgot the Iraq war. Don’t expect us to be leaving Iraq anytime soon, unless it is to invade Iran and/or Syria and increase our presence in Afghanistan. You don’t spend tens of billions on a dozen permanent bases in a foreign country, unless you plan to use it as a staging ground for something bigger. The military-industrial complex demands it.
Last, but not least, look for significant racial tension to develop.
The world seems to be falling over itself in glee over Obama’s victory, calling it a historic moment, because a man of color was finally elected into the US Presidency. Being color blind as I am, it’s not a big deal to me – I’m concerned with the ideologies of the candidates. However, the poor of our nation is composed mostly of black and Hispanic people – who are going to see this victory as a huge golden key to the treasury of the United States Government, aka, your tax dollars – and you can expect bill after bill demanding more and more from the coffers. Once a people learn that they can vote away your money to come to them, they tend to do so. Obama’s win is a gigantic catalyst to spur this on.
You can also look forward to an increase in legislation aimed at bringing “equality” to America. The current illegal population we have from Mexico, will most likely be given amnesty and citizenship. Our current Affirmative Action laws will be radically expanded. In an effort to legislate morality, the police state will balloon even further than it has under Bush’s goose stepping mania. Look at the trend: which administration in the last 100 years has relinquished power? Which administration in the last 100 years hasn’t expanded the size and role of the government? Which administration in the last 100 years hasn’t whittled away at the Bill of Rights?
Don’t get me wrong, it wouldn’t be any better under McCain. It would just be a different flavor of shit. Because that’s all that’s been accomplished this election. America chose Democratic brand shit, over Republican brand shit. You’re still eating shit.
I’ve stressed it before and I’ll stress it again: until we remove all the Democrats and all the Republicans from office, there will be no real change.
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I was looking up SSDP and found nothing (a term I coined a few months back, looks like you beat me to it). You are correct in your assumptions above. Until all the politicians are gone Nothing is going to change.
Look at: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/WyC_bXkFX0E/article.pl
It wasn’t OK for Bush but it’s OK for Obama. I want to see all the Obama supporters (Jockstraps) give him a pass on this one.
People don’t seem to vote on the topics anymore. They pick a political party as if they’re choosing a football team and then their team can do no wrong. The hypocrisy of the current Obama cheerleaders supporting him in a continuation of Bush’s malice, is simply stunning.
It’s a sad state of affairs. Without a major shift in the public mindset toward reclaiming the government to be our elected representatives, rather than our elected leaders, I don’t see any real change coming.
Another key point I didn’t write about here, is that we need to purge the staffers as well. Some of these people, who are appointed rather than elected, have held positions of power for decades. That simply has to stop.