The Coming "Bush Aftermath": What Will It Look Like?

[David Zephyr]

National debt piling up, credit crunch from sub-prime fallout, standard of living in free-fall, foreclosures on the rise, bankruptcies increasing daily, corporate failures, a depleted U.S. military, national reputation in ruins, wars-without-end, class system between those with health-care and those without, infrastructure collapsing, domestic spying on our citizens by the goverment...

How do you see what I am calling the "Bush Aftermath" shaping up?

Can you put on your collective future gazing specs and tell us what you see the country looking like in two more years?

[BlackHawk706867]

1. You can sum it up in two words "Extremely Bleak" eom. ww

[AzDar]

2. Bush : "Apres moi, le deluge."

[David Zephyr]

7. Louis XV

I think you have it right.

[seemslikeadream]

12. Believed that they were meant to live after the deluge

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXI9kAVOYaI



BEFORE THE DELUGE

Some of them were dreamers
And some of them were fools
Who were making plans and thinking of the future
With the energy of the innocent
They were gathering the tools
They would need to make their journey back to nature
While the sand slipped through the opening
And their hands reached for the golden ring
With their hearts they turned to each other's heart for refuge
In the troubled years that came before the deluge

Some of them knew pleasure
And some of them knew pain
And for some of them it was only the moment that mattered
And on the brave and crazy wings of youth
They went flying around in the rain
And their feathers, once so fine, grew torn and tattered
And in the end they traded their tired wings
For the resignation that living brings
And exchanged love's bright and fragile glow
For the glitter and the rouge
And in a moment they were swept before the deluge

Now let the music keep our spirits high
And let the buildings keep our children dry
Let creation reveal its secrets by and by
By and by--
When the light that's lost within us reaches the sky

Some of them were angry
At the way the earth was abused
By the men who learned how to forge her beauty into power
And they struggled to protect her from them
Only to be confused
By the magnitude of the fury in the final hour
And when the sand was gone and the time arrived
In the naked dawn only a few survived
And in attempts to understand a thing so simple and so huge
Believed that they were meant to live after the deluge

Now let the music keep our spirits high
And let the buildings keep our children dry
Let creation reveal its secrets by and by
By and by--
When the light that's lost within us reaches the sky

Jackson Browne



Believed that they were meant to live after the deluge

[BeHereNow]

3. Did you see "The Children of Men?"

I'd say that covers it.
BHN

[seemslikeadream]

4. Triumph of Death

[David Zephyr]

8. No. Should I?

Great graphic. "The Bush Aftermath"

[LSparkle]

15. Reminds me of a nightmare I had as a child

and that I wrote a short story about ... This was probably 25 years ago and that graphic above is exactly what it was like, except all the rich people lived up on the hill and weren't touched by all the death and fires in the valley. Sends a chill up my spine to remember it now.

[democrat2thecore]

5. A helluva mess to clean up...nt

[Sapere aude]

6. Well if we have a Dem in the White House and a Dem Congress

we could roll back some of the stuff and rebuild the rest.

My gut tells me that there will not be an election in 2008. I think we are in for a much bumpier ride.

The current congress has no power and the current White House holds all the cards.

[BlackHawk706867]

9. Yep, I feel that your second line is accurate.... A Dictatorship will happen before 2008..

I would bet, with the US hitting Iran or some scenario like that.

ww

[Sapere aude]

13. My guess is that there will be a MIHOP terrorist attack with the blame going to Iran.

The White House declares marshal law. The election is put off. Anyone who apposes is arrested and detained indefinitely in the new concentration camps. The White House declares itself the protector of the government and dissolves congress. The SCOTUS goes along and it is also dissolved.

Most Americans will go along with what ever happens while they watch reality TV and read People magazine and go to NASCAR races.

[BlackHawk706867]

14. That pretty much sums up the way I see it as well! eom. ww

[DemGa]

10. More, more of the same

And a Dem WH and Congress will only be a slight break in the slide.

[annabanana]

11. starting over

[The Traveler]

16. The next President will probably serve only one term

Bush leaves an incredible mess in his wake, and no matter how effective the next President is, the pain of dealing with all those consequences will make it difficult to survive politically. Think Jimmy Carter in the post Vietnam/post Watergate/first energy crisis days.

[Ilsa]

17. I was thinking the same thing. This admin will try to prop everything up

until Jan 2009 and then everything will start falling apart, and the new Dem Pres will be blamed. There's alot of work ahead for the next pres.

[blues90]

18. I don't have a good outlook for the furture .

Not after all that has been going on , especially after bush came along in 2000 . Everywhere you look provided you are aware there is damage almost / if not beyond repair .

[DemoTex]

19. Avert your eyes. It will not be pretty.

Those that replace Bu$h will be blamed for not turning the country back around. But, IMO, that is part of the planed chaos.

Hunker down. Check those seat belts. It's going to be a very rough flight.