An Opinion Not of my Own

Someone who has had a bit more time to formulate their thoughts came up with this - and I agree with damn near all of it.

"Even though Bush lost the popular vote in 2000, he nevertheless governed as if he had won by 10 million votes and had topped 400 electoral college votes. God help us now that he and the Christian Coalition won an election by 2%. Now he'll govern as if the clouds had parted and annointed him the chosen one.

Bush has not and will not reach out to those who disagree with him. In his mind, and in the minds of the Neo-Cons who advise him, Democrats are not fellow citizens but enemies and traitors to be smashed. The Bush administration treats its opponents with unbelievable arrogance and disdain. His call for cooperation is simply a call for unconditional surrender.

Now that the Moral Majority / Christian Coalition / American Taliban is firmly in the drivers seat, I expect them to impose their 'values' agenda on us all -- overturn Roe v. Wade, throw out Griswald 1965, and perhaps even criminalize homosexuality. Conservatives are all for limiting the power of government except when they get into the morals business. Scientific research in areas that conflict with Bush's born again friends (stem cells, alternate energy, global warming) etc will basically grind to a halt -- or be conducted overseas.

In the next four years, once we get more Scalias / Pickerings on the bench, we can look forward to a roll-back of pretty much all progressive legislation since McClaughlin Steel vs. U.S., 1937. Meanwhile, we'll blow through the $10 trillion mark on the national debt (in no time flat), leaving no possibility for anything but radical, abrupt surgery on medicare and social security in 2008.

Once the sheer incompetence on Iraq sinks in, and the fiscal insanity of Bush's economic policy makes itself clear (as it did to the Financial Times and Economist, which endorsed Kerry), then perhaps middle America will decide that God, Guns, and Gays won't keep their job in America, won't give them affordable (or any) health insurance, won't give them breathable air, won't improve their schools, and won't protect them from terrorists.

There are two Americas: one cosmopolitan and wordly, one insular and godly.
Now we get to re-fight all the battles of the 18th century Enlightenment."

I feel: 0_0 Frightened