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In reply to the discussion: My theory for those interested [View all]Kelvin Mace
(17,469 posts)1) Keystone pipeline - Jobs at reduced wages and massive environmental destruction. Lots of on the job deaths and injuries thanks to gutting of OSHA and other regulatory agencies.
2) When did we ever NOT support Israel?
3) War in Iran.
4) Military deployment to borders, more Arizona-like laws at the federal level.
5) Half the number of abortion clinics in the U.S. by 2016. Outlawing of IUDs and oral contraceptives in red states.
6) CIA/NSA unleashed. Torture report sent to a "black site" and never heard from again.
7) Fracking galore!
8) Expanded offshore drilling.
9) Open season on ANWAR
10) ACA starved for funds, then gutted by the courts.
11) More voter ID laws, with the current ones upheld by the Scalia 5.
12) Moves to eliminate overtime pay and the minimum wage.
13) Obama impeachment by end of 2015.
14) Slashing of social programs
15) Partial privatization of Social Security, followed by full privatization when they take the White House in 2016
16) Government shutdown to push extort budget cuts for social welfare.
17) Debt default if the shutdown doesn't get them
18) Economy tanks worse than 2008-2009
19) Massive effort to re-criminalize homosexuality
20) Mass shootings weekly as all gun regulation vanishes.
21) Elimination of all green energy incentives
22) CO2 levels will climb
23) Massive effort to altar science curriculum to strip out anything that contradicts conservative religious/economic orthodoxy
24) Massive effort to restore Christian prayer to schools
25) Massive expansion of privatization in schools, prisons, military and public utiliies.
26) Tiered, pay-to-play internet access
27) Gutting of Consumer Protection Bureau
28) Tax cuts galore
29) Expansion of dark money spending for 2016
30) No judges approved who are not to the right of John Roberts