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[apocalypsos]

Okay, let's be serious for a minute here. Let's say that Bush really does get re-elected. What do you honestly think is going to happen in the next four years if that occurs?

(Don't mind me. I'm just curious.)

EDIT: I'd just like to add for the record that considering how destructive people have been this election year, I wouldn't be surprised if, no matter which one gets elected, there's an assassination attempt in the next year. I don't think one is going to happen, but if one does ... yeah, I won't be shocked. There are some seriously screwed-up, pissed-off people who are totally against both major candidates.

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[hemlock-martini.livejournal.com]

40 days and nights of darkness!

The dead rising from their graves!

Cats and dogs, living together!

Well, okay, no. But I fully expect him to enact long-lasting reforms that will (a) further erode our civil rights, (b) place more tax reward emphasis on corporate blowjobs for the rich and less and less for both the poor and middle class, (c) if not wreck, then further degrade the environment in favor of polluting megacorporations, (d) push legislation that will blur even more the line between church and state and thus push back women's rights, the gay movement, and pro-choice advocacy, (e) get us into at least one more pointless, long, ugly, bloody war, and (f) make me want to smack his stupid monkey face in with a Buick every time I see it.

Right now, he's ahead of schedule on (f).

[calystarose.livejournal.com]

further slow erosion of civil rights for every group except white, protestant christian males. more of US soldiers being sacrificed on the altar of Georgie's ego.

but nothing big enough to motivate people to rise up en masse and kick the assholes out of office.

cynical? yeah.

[zeelee-penguin.livejournal.com]

Well, for starters he'll drill every last piece of wilderness in my home state (Utah) for oil. He'll probably start another war. He'll make the hold of the conservatives on our government almost impossible to dislodge. He'll probably succeed in passing several laws impeding free speech and freedom of the press (but never the 2nd amendment). He'll probably accelerate global warming and bring us that much closer to the Day After Tomorrow scenario.

And those are just the least radical things I could think of.

[matildarose.livejournal.com]

He'll do some things we;ll disagree with, and he'll do some things we'll agree with. But every time he does something we disagree with, we'll wonder what it was like to have Kerry.

[astaria51.livejournal.com]

*snerk* That's probably the most honest thing anyone could say. (Of any candidate. It would work in the other direction.) I'm deathly afraid of Bush, but honestly?

Yes. That is what's going to happen.

Abortion rant. Might not want to read it if you're pro-life.

[malhablada.livejournal.com]

Well, if those four Supreme Court Justices really do retire during Bush Reign 2 and he appoints Asshats like himself, they'll overturn Roe vs. Wade, and the legality of abortion will be left up to individual states. 20 - 30 states will probably ban abortion outright.

So, to answer your question, I'm either going to have to move to New York or California (two of the state's least likely to ban abortion) or learn to perform them at home with an unbent wire hanger and some peroxide.

Re: Abortion rant. Might not want to read it if you're pro-life.

[anne-jumps.livejournal.com]

Don't forget making access to birth control methods "optional" (see: recent stories where pharmacists refuse to provide pills. Some OB-GYNs even refuse to prescribe them).
The guy who runs Operation Rescue wants only condoms to be available. Why? Because men are in charge in regards to condoms. It's all about controlling women.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_inbetween_/]

roughly the same as in the last four years.

[arks.livejournal.com]

The Washington Monthly ran just such a story, asking a bunch of experts. I'm rather fond of Galbraith's version, but that's because it's the apocalypse as written by an econ nerd, which I totally appreciate. Plus, it has a happy ending. ^^

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

*hears the word "apocalypse" and perks up* Ooo, you wouldn't happen to have a link, would you?

[cmpriest.livejournal.com]

i have already made plans to join the ACLU the morning after the putz is re-elected ... and he will be, i fear. it's like warren said at DragonCon -- we're DOOMED. Kerry's going to get whacked like a carnival gopher.

[seferin.livejournal.com]

You don't think it will be shut down as giving comfort to the enemy?

I think that Abortion will be outlawed, prayer in school will be mandated, Social Security will be stopped, medicare and medicaid will be shut down.

There will be redistricting throughout the United States as Republicans solidify their power. Our civil liberties disappear, and the free press fails.

The draft is reinstated, and the war is spread to Iran and Syria. In an attempt to placate the Muslims and the UN, the United States begins to pressure Israel more, causing them to threaten to use nuclear arms...

It is not a pretty picture.

[florahart]

Global Thermonuclear War.

No, not really. Though I'm not convinced he actually grasps the whole, this is a computer playing tic tac toe until it learns and how is that relevant thing, nor that actual humans over there in his pet war are actually getting shot and blown up and shit.

Really, continuing scary erosion of civil rights in the name of safety. Continuing of snubbing of the rest of the world. Continuing of kissing business ass and smacking people who work upside the head.

Hm. Maybe we could teach him about getting wood on the internets. Then his brain would be all occupied-like, and someone else....wait, the next person to make decisions after him is Cheney. ...Crap.

[pie-is-good.livejournal.com]

Props for the Wargames reference.

[insidian.livejournal.com]

Georgie'll probably get another dog, hang out at the ranch a little more. He's working on his primo collection of Gulf War collectibles and he's almost saved enough of his allowance to get the Hummer Action Set, so he's got that going for him. He'll make a couple of speeches they hand to him, maybe watch some TV. Laura's always on him to listen to those elocution tapes, but that's hard work so he'll listen to his classic rock tapes instead and pretend to be practicipating. Yup.

The Administration, on the other hand, will continue to eat at people's civil rights in the name of "safety", will start another pointless war with some country who never asked to be 'liberated', will increase the severity of the backdoor draft and/or institute an actual draft (which would be spun into a 'protection squad' or some shit so as to avoid calling it a 'draft'), will replace 2 to 4 Supreme Court justices with Scalia clones, and will basically make this a very unpleasant country for anyone who isn't at least two of the following: Rich, White, Male, Christian. Oh, and they'll raise taxes on the middle classes, provide shitty or no health care for the poor, continue the policies of rewarding job outsourcing, and God only knows what else.

I think Bush should get a beagle. They're awesome.

[cyprinella]

I'm not a hound fan. I think he should get a german shepard. A bad one. That rips off his face.

Or maybe hte beagle should rip off his face.

[horsefacehannah.livejournal.com]

Well, I live in Berkeley. So I figure my city will have aq huge riot and explode, and then I won't have to deal with the consequences. Eh?

[astaria51.livejournal.com]

*snerk*
But ack! My cousins live in Berkeley!

[levi.livejournal.com]

It's going to be scary if Bush gets re-elected. I will do my damndest to get myself and my girlfriend the hell out of this country.

I think bad bad things will happen.

[mary-re.livejournal.com]

Well, first thought was "the apocalypse," but that was just a gut reaction and shouldn't be taken at all seriously. /deadpan

But really, under Bush again I can see the rest of the world's governments supporting us less and less, leading to an even larger increase in anti-american sentiment globally, and a bad time for being an American tourist. I think we'll see a further decline in public education. Individual's rights will be repressed even more for the "safety of all," and most of the American public won't even notice, or if they somehow do hear about it they will think their government is 'protecting' them.

Further restrictions on abortion. Serious attempts to pass the constitutional amendment regarding marriage. More of the same utter disregard for the environment.

Well, this is depressing. Come election night, I'm going to be glued to the tv.

[mary-re.livejournal.com]

Oh, and also. If he does get re-elected, I have already told some close friends and family about my tentative plans to move out of the country. Because the ignorance of so many Americans would disgust me, as would the ignorance of our president.
And because the idea of being around while our country turns into 1984 frightens me.

[tinylegacies.livejournal.com]

I agree with those who mentioned a loss of our civil liberties if he's re-elected. There's a really good chance that the next president will get to appoint some Supreme Court justices and if Bush gets his guys on there they will definitely overturn Roe vs. Wade and who knows what other havoc they will wreak.

As for the assassination attempt thing - well every president that has taken office in a year ending in zero has either died in office, had an assassination attempt or been assassinated.

[foster9563.livejournal.com]

every president that has taken office in a year ending in zero has either died in office, had an assassination attempt or been assassinated.

...

*clasps hands together*

Pleasepleasepleasepleaseplease...


Adrienne.

[paradisacorbasi.livejournal.com]

My job has an overflow call center in Canada. I will watch from outside the border if at all possible, I think.

[laughingrat.livejournal.com]

A Great Migration of the disgusted to non-hostile countries.

Speaking of which, do you know how difficult it is to actually emigrate to Canada? Damn!

[elfiepike.livejournal.com]

that's all i can think whenever anyone says, "i'm moving to canada!" dude, you gotta have skills to get into canada! they won't just take anyone! and my lawyer friend assures me that now they're actually extradicting (extridicting?) people in canada, too, so you can't just go up there and hang out. >

[grail76.livejournal.com]

Terrorism gets worse. He tries more and more draconian ways of putting it down, only making it worse.
The economy is only kept going by massive federal borrowing, thust tossing the baby boomers, who come up for Soc. Sec. starting in 2010, in the crapper.
The U.S. Goes from the remaining superpower to the next Great Britain.

[snowpiratess.livejournal.com]

Us Brits will look on in horror, and probably replace Blair with an insane coalition of the Conservatives and the UK Independance party. And the Caspian Sea will become a war zone.

*starts hoarding canned goods*

[wal-lace.livejournal.com]

America will stop letting in foreign tourists entirely.

Bush will work his way round to gradual legislation against Islam, in an attempt to ultimately outlaw it (because of how well that worked against, for example, alcohol).

Then there will be a big earthquake, and New York and Los Angeles will both be turned into island fortresses where nobody goes in and nobody comes out. Because I've just remembered that the Random Busty Chick in Escape from LA was there mostly for being a Moslem.

It's a scary thing when it looks like John Carpenter's vision of the near future is about to come true.

[wal-lace.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, and one of the Bush Twins will commit suicide and the other will steal the launch codes for her daddy's new Doomsday Weapon (Bush demanded it after watching Austin Powers) and run away to Los Angeles and give it to an evil crazy revolutionary.

[callie-chan.livejournal.com]

I will seriously begin contemplating moving to Canada like a rat fleeing a sinking ship on fire. (As to what's on fire, it could be the rat or the ship, whichever would make it run faster.)

Sadly, I have not the funds to move, so our house will just quietly secede.

I think I'm hyperventilating now. Don't scare me with such questions!

-Callisto

[tviokh.livejournal.com]

Remember some of the more violent protests of the 60s and 70s?
They'll amount to piles of fuck all nothing compared to what Bush will face.
If you thought the country hated Nixon...:D

[akacat]

I think you under estimate the ability of the average American to stay on the couch glued to the TV.

[jtersesk.livejournal.com]

Back in late October 2000 and during the month of November, I recall discussing with my friends a mass migration to Canada if Bush were to win.

I still live in Philly.

I think I'm more serious about leaving the country this time around, but I'm not sure. I think most of us middle-class peons will pretty much go on about our lives, watching in horror as our civil liberties are slowly curtailed, abortion is outlawed, children are killed by other children playing with daddy's assault rifle, all of Europe and most of the rest of the world turns their backs on us, and we revert to the isolationism of the late 19th Century.

Then 2008 will come and we'll elect a Democrat and he or she will fix everything and the country will go back to normal, except that the rest of the world will still eye us suspiciously, because they'll never really be able to trust us.

Because there's no way in hell anyone'd elect Cheney... or Giuliani, should it come to that. Right?

::sends winning vibes to Kerry::

[akacat]

1 - this will be the last election we see for a while. At least until the next revolutionary war.

2 - seperation of church and state will disappear.

Regarding your edit:

After three+ years of whining because certain people who I thought could be counted on for a problem such as this, I finally realized--they know that the current replacement would only be worse.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

That's what I've always thought, that the only reason no one's taken a potshot at Bush is because Cheney's the alternative. Just when you think there's not a "worse than Bush" ...

[ladysorka]

The country turning into a theocracy under our very noses. Completely ignorning global warming. More loss of diplomatic ties. Possible attempt to turn country into dictorship (unsuccessful when all the democrats steal their neighbors guns and storm Washington).

My complete relegation to second-class citizen, as I am a lesbian, and my finishing my degree as fast as I can so that I can go open up that B&B in the Yukon I've always wanted.

[dargie.livejournal.com]

- Continue to gut the environment to favor big business, weakening standards for air and water pollution, for safety in our food, for protection of wilderness areas.
- Continue to offer tax cuts and incentives to big business and the very rich while making the middle class pay, further eroding that class.
- Continue to ignore the healthcare crisis , offering bogus plans which will only serve to line the pockets of the pharmeceutical companies, the insurance companies and the corporations which own most of the hospitals in this country.
- Turn his sights on Iran with an eye to moving into the oil-rich areas of the former Soviet Union, and establishing a pipeline to the Persian Gulf.
- Appoint at least one Supreme Court justice who will further tip the balance of opinion in the court to the far right. The predictable result will be that well beyond his term in office, challenges to laws such as Roe vs Wade or the Patriot Act will be decided by people who may have more of an investment in one side or the other rather than in applying the law in a reasonable and non-partisan manner.
- Further damage our credibility in the international community by continuing to antagonize other countries with his administrations arrogant disregard for any point of view save one which benefits the U.S.
- Further erode public education in this country by offering no substantive aid to schools.
- Increase our budget deficit.
- If we do, in fact, end up attempting a military "solution" in Iran (and we will still be in Iraq and Afghanistan, presumably), will maintain the need for a draft.
- Further discourage immigration, particularly from third-world countries, by throwing up roadblocks in the name of homeland security.
- Also in the name of homeland security, further erode the freedoms of the American people, particularly (IMO) by finding ways around the prohibition on unreasonable search and seizure.
- Help to erode privacy for the average citizen, while increasing the opacity of the government, and of big corporations.

There's probably more, but I've run out of time. I need to get out of the house.