If they were left to their own devices...?

[kentuck]

What would be the end result? If no one interferred with Bush and the Republicans in Congress, where would we end up and and how long would it take? Some might argue no one is interferring with them now. Where will our nation be five years from now if no one stops this present disaster from happening?

[BlueEyedSon]

1. Marial law, rollback of all environmental regs, a draft, regressive

taxes, dismantling of all social programs.....

[getmeouttahere]

4. Exactly...

I'll never understand how they can believe that a society can get away with having no social safety net...they think the markets are the answer to everything...there won't even be low-level fast food jobs if more and more people are out of work or making considerably less...and the mid-level jobs are leaving the country or getting cut...and then they tell us to get a college degree so you can get a better job...but wait, now they've cut the pell grant programs, assuming you can even take time away from working two jobs to go to school...maybe you manage to eke out your degree, but then who's creating the better paying jobs? Wal-Mart???

[Just Me]

7. World war for global domination.

Don't leave that one off your list.

[BlueEyedSon]

8. Yeah, that's what the draft is for.....nt

[getmeouttahere]

2. It may take that long for half the population....

to wake up...of course, if there are enough people that aren't feeling any pain from all of this, it may take longer

[lady lib]

3. I'm going to go out on a limb here

and say that eventually cooler heads would prevail and an opposition party, or at least coalition, would emerge from within the Republican party. In the meantime, all the abuses we're seeing right now would markedly increase.

Edit: I'm assuming that when you say "left to their own devices" you mean that in this scenario there are no Dems or Greens to oppose their agenda.

[Sgt. Baker]

5. it depends

on how far they are willing to go. If they stay within the laws of the constitution they won't get far enough to do any irreparable damage. If they start invalidating amendments and adding new ones that limit freedoms then we could be in trouble.

[AndyTiedye]

9. They Already Ignore the Constitution

Can you say "Patriot Act"? or "Gitmo"?
How about "Faith-Based Programs"?

Not to mention turning our electoral process over to

[AllegroRondo]

6. "Handmaids Tale" meets "1984"

somewhere between total corporate run fascim and total theocracy.