We're all screwed.
Let's take a minute to pick apart this lovely governing system of ours, shall we? We have several options at our disposal:
1) Everyone turns into a democrat - Wealth is shared eaqually among the people through the government, and that same government is responsible for regulating everything that goes on. We move from Democracy to Socialist Utopia to Communism to corrupt dictatorship. No one knows how to run their own life anymore because they have been taken care of by the government, which is now corrupt, sucking up all the money and using for roads that never get built, gays marry each other, and nobody can be blamed for anything because nothing is anybody's fault, and we're all screwed.
2) Everyone turns conservative - The country is run by the wealthy, who only get wealthier, while the bottom 98 percent of the people are left in squalor. The middle class disappears because all their jobs have moved overseas and we've reverted back to an industrial revolution 'i owe my soul to the company store' situation. The religious right takes over and no one is free to speak differently. The richest of the rich and most religious of the right rises up to rule the nation, goes on a tyrade across the middle east in the name of freedom, but all he's really after is oil. We move from Democracy to Capitalist Paradise/Church-State to Oligarchy to corrupt empire. No one knows how to run their own life anymore because they've got no live left to run, we're all waiting on Jesus to come deliver us from ourselves, everyone's afraid to leave their house because there's rioting in the streets, but the good news is inflation is down, but we're all screwed.
3) Everyone sits the fence - No one can come to a decision on anything, not even in their own opinion. We're afraid of the options above, so we pick and choose what to have an opinion on because we know what'll happen if the policies of either side are actually carried out. We're all two-faced backstabbing slimeballs and you can't trust what anybody says because they're only trying not to piss you off. There are no more extremists on either end, and we all end up voting independent. We move from Democracy straight to the depths of Hell. We're invaded by Canada and all we can do is sit back and watch. We don't defend ourselves because the Rebuplicans are gone, but what's worse is that we can't even whine because the Democrats are gone, too. Nobody knows how to run their life anymore but it doesn't matter because now we're a cult of beaver pelt wearing, maple syrup drinking lumberjacks who have never seen or heard of civilized man. We could care less about the fate of the world because we have no way of directing it, and we're all screwed.
4) Stay where we are - The country is more divided now than it has been since the War of Yankee Aggression, and we've got people running around who think one of the first two is a good idea. These people get together and brawl, then they drag the whole country into it. Moore sits back with a camera in one hand and a doughnut in the other, recording the whole thing for biased posterity, while across the street, W and his hunting buddies are picking off hippies with a .22 (not that that's a bad thing) We move from Democracy to Tribal Factions, the Republicans prevail because that's thier strong suit, and from there we're back at #2, and we're all screwed.
The solution, you ask? I bet you thought I was going to conclude this with one of my usual simple answers to which I arrived by whittling down to the bare essence of life and rooting out the source of the problem and eliminating it, didn't you? Well, sorry to disappoint you, but there is no solution. Every government is destined to fall sooner or later, and I'd say 228 years is pretty damn good, the best of all time, in fact. But this is the end, folks, and we're here to see it. It was fun while it lasted, but now we're all screwed.
I'm just joshin' -- Vote Kerry-Edwards, we'll be fine.
Vote Bush-Cheney, we'll be fine.
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