Visions In My Mind

What's to come?, is the question on the minds of many in the Western World (not for the elites of course, this is just a slight hiccup). After the House Of Representatives failed to pass the massive corporate welfare bill and the financial markets' tanking yesterday, things feel really uneasy. I cannot believe how Bush's alarm and break from his staunch free market stance has influenced my feeling towards the bailout proposal. After almost eight years of lies and propaganda, his concern appears honest and not indicative of some insidious economic shock therapy to transfer wealth from public to private hands (although it is probably the case). I chalk it up to my ignorance on all matters related to the economy except the basics needed for societal function. That aside, should the idea of federal intervention in the economy die and the crisis continue to escalate, what marco social, economic and political ramifications would it have for our nation? Is this the quintessential the end of the Amerian Empire?

Socially, the nation will crumble. We already exhibit extreme hatred and prejudice against each other based on race, religion, size and other superficial bullshit. Should our way of life end, that security blanket will burn to dust. Numerous civil conflicts will break out. Helter Skelter realized. Race vs. Race. Believers vs. Non Belivers. Poor vs. hired guns employeed by the rich. Take the current gas shortage for example. Folks are violating each others rights due to a temporary decrease in supply for an important commodity. If the other shoe drops and everything goes to hell, anarchy will reign until the federal government true facist face manifests.

Representative government will die. Democracy will be buried and pissed on. The oligarchs will rule with no shame. The idea of a middle class will become a fantasy. No upward mobility. You're either born rich or poor and no inbetween. Eventually, the fragmented members of the the lower class will band together against the authoritarian state and those class based violent revolutions of the third world will occur on American soil.

The totality of the Shock Doctrine will be applied to its country of origin. Only the rich can afford to live comfortably while the rest of us will dwell in Bushvilles or Obamavilles.

That brings me to another point, Obama! I have this strange feeling the shadow government is setting him up for failure or assassination. Obama will inherit a clusterfuck. The War on Terror will be fucked. The economy will still be fucked. Our energy strategy will also be fucked. How can a man promising these sweeping populist changes achieve sucess? HE CAN'T. Obama is being setup to be that black, liberal politician that promises change, but can't get shit done due to the enormity of the nation's fucked-up-ness. Or, they'll kill him because he doesn't play ball, even though he appears to be doing so.

Ok. Ok. I am a compulsive exaggerator, but the future looks grim for the USA.