Love Masochism? Vote BushCo! -- Morford

[Khephra]

I have a good friend who believes, gloomily, bitterly, resignedly, that not only are we in for four more years of painful and cheerless BushCo-branded tyranny and misprision and aww-shucks dumb-guy shtick, but also that we are actually at the beginning of a long, brutal, fear-based Republican juggernaut that will last a good 16 more years, at least.

Because this is how long it will take for the current horrific conservative cycle to play itself out, and this would resemble a more typical and historically proven 20-year pendulum swing, in this case one toward neoconservative right-wing hate and homophobia and warmongering that will careen us toward heretofore unprecedented extremes of sadness and isolationism and far too many overweight white people with guns.

But here's the catch. Here's the argument: This dark era, this wicked 20-year dystopia America could now be facing, it might be a very good and necessary thing indeed.

Not, as you might dream, because four more years of BushCo and a dozen more of sneering Republican domination means there will likely be good times ahead. Not because we will enjoy an unprecedented era of peace and stability and generosity and environmental sustenance, humanitarian progress and U.N. cooperation and fiscal responsibility and a generally relaxed and open-minded attitude toward religion and multiculturalism and sex. I mean, don't be ridiculous. Besides, the Clinton era already happened.

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2004/09/15/notes091504.DTL&nl=fix

[aquart]

1. So God wants us to wander in the wilderness

Until this generation dies out?

Goody.

[IrateCitizen]

2. I don't think God gives a flying f*** what we do, really...

I mean, why would she, considering that we are just one self-destructive species on one tiny planet in one nondescript galaxy in one possible universe of untold billions or trillions? :shrug:

[Skittles]

5. please don't blame the state of this world on a FEMALE entity

nt

[Skittles]

4. it's certainly too long for me, aquart

good LORD - didn't we suffer through 12 years of these assholes not so long ago???

[fizzana]

3. A part of me agrees with this.

It's partly a defense mechanism in case Bush wins in November. We have already made so many mistakes in the war on Terror that I fear that not even the smartest, bravest President can save us before the shit really hits the fan.

At this point I think we are going to be hit with a double whammy of another terrorist strike in the U.S. and the Iraq war spilling over the borders. Either of those blows alone will cause a huge blow to the economy and to the country's psyche. There might be nothing Kerry or anyone else can do to stop this. If that is the case, maybe it's better for Bush to be President when the shit really hits the fan.

This is the pessimist in me talking and I hope to God it doesn't happen but based on Bush's performance the past few years it certainly not beyond the realm of possibility.