Or somebody.
Where to, though?
Here's one scenario, from an email by a friend:
Thoughts on the Recent End of the World
Since Bush has backed himself into a number of policy impasses, it’s reasonable to expect that his frantic efforts to extricate himself from any of the big ones will require policies so damaging, frightening and extreme that he and his ideocrats will wreck the Republican Party, rendering it useless for a generation, or maybe more. Examples: Opting for a war that he can neither pay for, nor, without humiliation, withdraw from. Making the tax cuts permanent, which he fully intends to do, and at the same time funding critical parts of his Homeland Security apparatus (cargo security, etc.). For general economic policy, the combination of an overt market fundamentalism (privatization exercises, guerilla war against long-established union rights) combined with a stealth nanny program for out-of-control corporations, promises to be lethal. Opening the doors of the state to the forces of the religious right whose sectarian agendas will destroy the flexibility of the government to devise reasonable solutions to terrible problems, such as Israel/Palestine (Armageddon is good, and the sooner the better), HIV/AIDS and contraception especially in the third world. All of this will be unfolding while the Republicans have seamless control of all branches of government. Lines of accountability will be so clear that even the passivity of a lapdog media may be insufficient to blur them....
[There was more, but that's the idea.] |
