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Last Updated: Nov 14, 2008 - 12:49:26 PM |
Making predictions after the fact has become a cottage industry among the pundits of the wall-to-wall cable news world. They all seem to know exactly what everything means right after it happens. I want to move from the shadows of history to the sunshine of prediction, so if you like, you can call me your Not-so-Nostradamus, and my humble prayer is that in a year from now you will show up at the Owens Compound shaking this article in my face and saying, “You were wrong!”
In The People’s Pottage, Garet Garrett said, “No matter how carefully a revolution may have been planned, there is bound to be a crucial time. That comes when the actual seizure of power is taking place.”
Old friends and others in my age group just shy (in my estimation) of geezerhood and well beyond sprightly say, “Though everything’s headed for hell in a handbasket, it won’t hit the fan in our lifetime; but I feel bad for the young folks.” There’s one thing about revolutions; they’re revolutionary. That’s not the Nostradamus part; it’s the Not-so part, but it’s true. Those who live on the cusp of a revolution have always thought, “It won’t happen in my day,” or as Sinclair Lewis said, “It can’t happen here!” Nevertheless, that’s where the revolution part comes in. It does happen now and here; suddenly the day dawns, and even the supporters of the Great Leader wonder, “How did we end up here?”
Now for the Nostradamus part:
What does the triumvirate of Messiah-Pelosi-Reid offer? On the other hand, what would an America with a Move-on-dot-Congress with “Reach-Across-Aisle” Me-too McCain in the Oval Office look like?
If the Move-on-dot-Acorn coalition and the Messiah win, or if Me-Too wins, but the Nevada/San Francisco Axis win a super majority (real or operational), they’ll call a lame duck session of Congress. With trial balloons already floating about massive tax hikes for the rich (read: anyone with a J-O-B), massive cuts in the military, and various social “improvements,” I believe we can expect many of the following to outline our new Progressive America:
With the quaint idea of border security out of the way, amnesty for millions of illegals with citizenship and voter registration not far behind.
Universal health care becomes the law of the land, adding another incentive for people to pour across our open borders awaiting the next round of amnesty, citizenship, and registration. Now we have the right to get our name on a list to stand in a line in a converted gymnasium to see a nurse practitioner while the political elite still fly in private jets to the Mayo Clinic.
Taxes balanced by generous checks sent to everyone who doesn’t pay taxes to even out the playing field. These tax increases will include re-imposing the death tax and the marriage penalty, a steep rate hike for all workers, Social Security, capital gains, and of course, the repeal of the Bush tax cuts, which contrary to popular belief, provided every taxpayer with a reduction in rate, which means a tax increase for everyone who pays taxes. The seizure of 401Ks and pension plans to be rolled into Social Security. Why should one person get the benefit of a 401K, a pension plan, and Social Security when this poor guy over here only gets Social Security? That can’t be fair? Let’s spread your wealth around!
More Ruth Bader Ginsbergs appointed to the Supremes and at every court level. Both legislatively and judicially, gay rights added to all civil rights laws; “don’t ask, don’t tell” blown away. The courts will rule homosexual marriages must be recognized in all states. Kennedy’s Hate Crimes Law will finally get to tell us what we can say to who where and how, with the Fairness Doctrine thrown in for good measure to clear the airwaves of all those pesky people who don’t agree with the new progressive agenda.
A “Freedom of Choice Act” will eradicate all abortion restrictions in all states, including partial birth abortion, with the federal government picking up the tab.
Affirmative action strengthened and applied to all professions in both public private sectors, including churches and private organizations.
The federal government will bail out states and municipalities, taking an even larger portion of control in exchange.
Trillion-dollar yearly deficits as far as the eye can see. The government will stop reporting what the deficit is: problem solved.
In that great classic The People’s Pottage, the author also said, “In the naive American mind, the word revolution had never grown up. The meaning of it had not changed since horse-and-buggy days, when Oliver Wendell Holmes said: ‘Revolutions are not made by men in spectacles.’ It called up scenes from Carlyle and Victor Hugo, or it meant killing the czar with a bomb, as he may have deserved for oppressing his people. Definitely, it meant the overthrow of government by force; and nothing like that could happen here. We had passed a law against it.”
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