Predictions for the future in our new Supreme Court enabled Fascist State

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

1. I predict that some giant evil company (use your imagination) will mount an effort to privatize the aquifers of the US and sell our water back to us at whatever price the market will bear. Imagine sky high water bills in the future. If they can figure out a way to make you pay for sunlight and oxygen as well, they'll try to do it.

2. I predict our highways will be sold off piecemeal to various bidders and we will have a system of interstate toll roads that will limit access to open travel for many people due to expense.

3. I predict that private developers will take easily any land they want with eminent domain with aid from their bought and paid for cronies in state legislatures(where this issue permanently resides now thanks to a previous Supreme Court decision)Private property holders will get doodly squat in terms of fair market value.

4. Some communities are already experimenting with private courts - this concept will be expanded as justice itself gets outsourced.

5. We already have private prison systems - this will be a new growth industry. Really responsible to no one.

6. Social Security privatized. Mo surprise here

7. Medicare privatized. No surprise here

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Bottom line - every part of government will be dismantled and privatized for profit. The way this country will look in 20 years will be unrecognizable. We just got "Shock Doctrined"

[NoPasaran]

1. Ritz Crackers will only be sold to those who can afford to stay at the Ritz

The masses will be limited to saltines by law

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

2. Go ahead and make light of this and minimize what just happened

Many people see where this is headed.

[NoPasaran]

12. Middle class TV viewers restricted to 720i HDTV

Superior 1080p viewing restricted to elite households

[peacetalksforall]

7. Did you mean this to be funny or to ridicule the op? If the former, it bombed, imo -

because it seems to be a slap at the op, our situation, and reasonable speculation and forecasting.

[NoPasaran]

13. Internet scolds sent to internment camps

Forced to watch Jerry Lewis movies until they develop appreciation of his comedic genius.

[peacetalksforall]

15. I never did like slapstick.

[Javaman]

16. nice to play the fool. It removes all doubt. nt

[sharesunited]

3. That dope Richy Daley sold a highway and the city's parking meters.

For some quick cash which is all gone.

[fasttense]

4. The march to fascism will not be stopped by our supposed justice system.

Remember when they picked our President for us? There were NO Demonstrations, little outrage, few complaints. Maybe this time we will NOT sit on our hands.

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

5. Stopped by the justice system? It was just put in place by the justice system. nt

[tom_paine]

6. about #2 (slaps forehead) of COURSE..brilliant Inverted Totalitarian strategy

achieves almost precisely the same "peasantization" combined with the authoritarian internal travel controls of the Old Soviet Union while providing our Corporate Aristocratic Masters enough Plausible Deniability so the TV-addled serfs won't catch on!

In some ways, I WISH that all we were doing was heading in a straight line back to the 1890s.

But it is almost certain we are heading for something much, much worse.

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

8. I wouldn't be surprised if internal travel throughout the states required

some kind of Intra-state passport in the future for "national security" purposes.

I agree that given the choice between the future I foresee and the 1890's I think I would go with the 1890s.

[TankLV]

10. after all, can't be sure of "illegals" infiltrating from Arizona into Kansas, now, can we!

and Cali and Az and Nevada are all "lost" by now, anyway...

[tom_paine]

21. Love that sigline. Predicting details is a helluva hard thing, nigh impossible.

Inverted Totalitarianism, which is what government we live under for now, relies on a minimum amount of old-style totalitarian pressures.

As mentioned above, for 99.5% of people, I think, it isn't totalitarianism until people are being dragged from their homes like in Soviet Russia and Nazi Germany. If there's none of that, then it COULDN'T be totalitarianism, and that's the end of it.

Bottom line, selling many, most or all of the major roads to the Corporations will result in either many tolls, or different sections of road (ESPECIALLY high-traffic roads where people sit for hours sometimes) will be branded and themed. That would be a way to provide even MORE Plausible Deniability, likely because ol' SCOTUS will happily rule that these highways owned by Corporations aren't subject to Federal Law, Due Process, Bill of Rights...

Details don't matter. What is clear is that the Corps and the Aristocracy will make our descent as anesthetized and painless as possible, until it's far too late to do anything about it.

The only near-certainty is that all our guesses won't be 100% perfect, if not wrong. But the trend and direction is crystal clear.

And GROWING, by the ease with which the Repugs wield their 41-59 majority and today's ruling by the Bush Court that makes much more hideous stuff possible down the road.

And the Bush Court has just begun it's work. Many more Dred Scot's a-coming.

[peacetalksforall]

9. In the 1970's I was so bothered by the campaign to hate and fear Communists

while the news was all about visits to the USSR and China for trade deals. There were plenty of photos of one hand on the arm and the other shaking the hand and it was all presented to us as a worthy exchange with a cut in the news right back to hating and fearing communism.

I remember the envoy Armand Hammer who seemed to be the main deal maker with and for Kissinger who were both with and for the barons of all three countries. I think the real deal was that a plan was made to swap out and sell out this country. And to flip fortunes for the ultimate purpose of bringing us (the people) down and bring them (their people) up. It was all about maintaining control so that we could provide the cheapest labor with sustainable purchasing income and no voice, no ability to protest.

The first item on the to do list in this country was to create a riches gap by dropping us down to three miserable no obligation workes.

The second item on the list was to destry unions.

The third was to keep up the pretense of democracy, patriotism, greatness, a two party system, and the right to vote.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

11. Orwell got the title wrong

private thought police Jan 2013

[Javaman]

19. Orwell was an optimist. nt

[One_Life_To_Give]

14. One or two cycles of 24/7 ads and robo-calls

Before the streets are full of people with pitchforks demanding change.

Having just lived thru 3-5 political commercials every 10 minutes, and the incesessant phone ringing. People are going to get really tired of the increased volume of ad's very quickly. You typically don't need three consecutive ad's from different entities telling you what an a-hole somebody is. This should put that on steroids.

Then again maybe it's just wishfull thinking on my part.

[tom_paine]

20. One can only hope you are correct

My fear is, with the Right-Wing Lie Machine and the "me-too" Corporate M$M constantly controlling, "amnesiafying" and infantilizing our National Dialogue, the general "subconscious" anger will STILL be at liberals.

Crazy, of course, as Liberals haven't actually held real power in this country since at least 1968 (considering even at that time so many Democrats were actually Bushie Dixiecrats).

But since when in the last decade has absolute 100% falsity ever stopped the Bushies from making their own reality and driving Beltway Conventional Wisdom?

But maybe, just maybe...you will turn out to be right?

[tonysam]

17. It's about permanent Republican rule.

Calling this decision about "corporate" rule obscures the REAL meaning of the decision.

This is nothing but another Bush v. Gore.

[LuckyTheDog]

18. Make THIS your Facebook status

"Money is not speech and human beings -- not corporations -- are persons entitled to constitutional rights. If you agree, copy this into your Facebook status and encourage others to do the same."