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In reply to the discussion: 5 Signs the United States Is Undergoing a Coup - James Fallows [View all]tpsbmam
(3,927 posts)I can imagine history books 50+ years from now and the lengthy chapters on the destruction of the United States and its causes and the causes of the second GREAT DEPRESSION. IF Obama is reelected and can get his SCOTUS appointments through, we stand a chance of reversing SOME of this. SOME. We still have the marriage of corporations and government to overcome. That MIGHT happen IF we can elect more progressives to Congress and locally, as well as reelect Obama. It will be a limited separation IF all of that happens, but we would see some change in favoring corporations over the rest of us. It wouldn't be as radical as most of us would like to see, but there would be favorable changes in corporate taxes, taxing the 1%, and more.
But if Romney wins.....the SCOTUS will turn even more radically right and generations will be affected. There will be no hope as the oligarchy is favored willy-nilly over the 99%.
This period will be looked at with disdain in history. We stand a good chance of our offspring and subsequent generations reading about the destruction or almost destruction finally reversed by rioting millions globally as the global elite impose their moronic policies destined to help only the global 1% and send the rest of the world into a massive depression.
Man, I could do with not watching this history unravel with millions of right-wing morons cheering it and abetting the power of the traitorous & tyrannous 1% and the politicians they own.