Am I too much of a cynic? Read my prediction

[SammyBlue]

With Alito on the court, Bush and his supporters control all branches of the Federal Government. The Republicans in Congress is more concerned with maintaining power than anything else.

My prediction is as follows:

Come July or August, something will happen that will make us afraid again, like we were on September 11th, 2001. Bush will make a speech claiming that terrorists have inflitrated the country at the highest levels and we must protect America from them, calling for the indefinate postponement of the elections. The people in the country will buy this and agree, since another attack has happened.

The Republicans in Congress will lock step to this, brow beaten by the Whips or threatened with severe sanction if they do not follow. The Democrats will not have the political will to buck the system like after 9/11/01. The law will pass in RECORD time, only to be challenged. The Supreme Court will go 4 - 4 with Kennedy being the tie breaker. Kennedy, one of the five who installed Bush, will agree with the Conservatives.

At that point, Bush has complete power. He will declare the Congress irrelevant and start arrests on people who speak out against him. By December, I see armed rebellion. And it will be based on political belief rather than geography. The police will defend the standing order, since they have no problem shooting and killing their fellow Americans. The military will follow their new leader and destroy all enemies, foreign and domestic and this country will fall in civil war.

What I am saying seems bleak and drastic. Hopefully, it will not come to pass, but I have yet to be wrong about the current state of American politics.

Am I being too alarmist?

[zanne]

1. It's a nightmare vision, alright.

The side of me that's all sweetness and light (yes, I do have that side) says it's not possible. My dark side says it is, but it would take longer than that to happen. The fact that we've already been through 9/11 is, in a way, reassuring, because we have that experience to go on, along with all the doubts that have come up. I don't think we'd be THAT gullible again. I hope not.

[SammyBlue]

7. What does your gut tell you?

I have zero faith in the American people to stand up and stop it. Americans are too afraid.

[ladjf]

10. Why are Americans acting like field mice?

[SpiralHawk]

2. Will choco-rations become a scarce commodity?

That's all I really care about, my choco-rations and my faithful Faux News propaganda TV spigot. As long as I have those, I will be alright. I will be alright. I will be alright...

[upi402]

19. What? No DigiBox?

:wow:

[RufusEarl]

3. According to this article, it will happen in March 2006

This is a very good read, it's long but well worth the time IMHO.

http://www.homelandsecurityus.net/Iran/petrodollars_and_nuclear_weapons.htm

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

4. Yes

The Republicans even now are showing cracks in their armor. Republicans are starting to speak out against the scandals; reports are in the MSM about "cherry picked" information leading up to the war. And don't believe for an instant that any Congressperson will willingly give up their power. The fact that some Republicans are speaking out against illegal wiretaps shows they have started to connect the dots and are realizing what will happen if they don't do something now.

[Journeyman]

5. Yes.

"I am an old man," said Mark Twain, "and have known many troubles -- most of which never happened."

"Sufficient unto the day are the problems thereof." -Matthew (paraphrased)

[MellowOne]

6. NOTHING surprises me anymore

Anything could happen.

[Burning Water]

8. Yes, I think you are.

The elections won't be canceled.

Something may happen. Probably not, though. Maybe the voters will be scared. But the elections won't be called off.

If we can prove that the BFEE was behind it, before the election, they will be turned out in droves. If not, they may win big because the people "trust" Republicans on "national security" more than they do Democrats.

But most probably, nothing spectacular will happen. The election will in any event take place as scheduled. The issues will rule, unless Diebold intervenes.

Relax.

[Bacchus39]

9. yes, sounds like a bad TV movie

Bush will be gone in 09 if not before.

[helderheid]

11. I was thinking this morning someone needs to write a screenplay with

this very scenerio - get the public to watch this "thriller" (what would be a good name? "One Nation Under Attack"? "Terror" ?) and open their minds to the possibilities. That it COULD happen here.

[SammyBlue]

14. I am a screenwriter and I beat you to it. It's 1/4 done now.

[helderheid]

17. fan fuckin tastic!

[Innocent Smith]

12. It won't happen

There will be elections. In 2006 the Repubs will lose some seats, maybe even enough for them to lose the House. Senate will stay Repub. Repubs will lose quite a few govenorships - enough for there to be more Democratic than Repub govs. This will be a help (a very slight help) in 2008 Presidential elections. The ebb and flow, back and forth, of political fortunes for Repubs and Dems will continue. There will be a Democratic President again (maybe not in 2008) and then the talk will be on the Repubs side about how the Democratic President won't leave office - just like they said incorrectly about Clinton.

[zeemike]

13. My predictions are also cynical

But completely different and more realistic.
The elections of 06 will end with the Repugs still in control of congress. The elections will be stolen at the local level just like they were in 04 and the media will tell us it is because the people want security, or some such shit as that.
And it will ot matter that the vote may well be mostly for the Democrats, because we will never know it, and not knowing we will continue to wring our hands and wonder what we did wrong.
But the most cynical thing is that we will just give up and let things go the way they want them too without a fight.

[helderheid]

18. Hey zia. You and I are thinking the same way.

[ISUGRADIA]

15. we had elections during a civil war

i doubt this scenario could come to pass as even conservatives could not stomache or justify such a move.

[Eric J in MN]

16. Republicans own the voting machine companies.

They don't have a motive for something as brazen as calling off elections. They can just rig elections instead.

[upi402]

20. They've been pumping the DISEASE thing for a while...

I wonder how close Fitz is to really scaring these evil traitors.
It's probably all that stops them, real concern over their own well being.

[Orangepeel]

21. O'Conner voted to install bush

so, if that is the only thing you are using to predict how Kennedy would vote, Alito makes no difference and this could have been done already.

But anyway, yes, you are being too alarmist. If for no other reason, too many republicans want to be President themselves not to fight bush postponing the election.

[FreedomAngel82]

22. I only hope not

The only way this won't happen is if we can take back the House and Senate and impeach him before he can do anymore harm.