I had this awful dream the other day. America had its first woman president, and it wasn't Hilary Goddamn Clinton, as a friend has dubbed her, but the other one. Yes, the pit bull with lipstick and very little brain, Sarah Palin, swept in on a surge of support for the provisional wing of the Republican party, aka the "Tea Party"
Are dreams divorced from reality? I bloody hope so, because this seemed awfully real. All over America, Tea party activists are lining up against, not the Democratic party candidates, but their own republican people, who they have deemed "wet", wimpish or generally too moderate for the world they long to inhabit. For in their dream world America once again is in charge of the world, kicking butt as and where they see fit in order to secure their oil supply or influence generally.
They would return to the isolationist policies of the 1930s, where the Monroe doctrine rules, and any other country can go hang. Except Iran, which they would sponsor Israel to attack pre-emptively- always get the counter-attack in first, isn't it?. As for Palestine, what's that? Part of Israel isn't it?
At home they would wish to abolish all restrictions on guns, their type and their ownership. They will want to abolish abortion but extend capital punishment. They will repeal all state funded health care, and spend the money saved on boosting the military. They will cancel all projects directed to limit global warming, because that doesn't exist, it being a left wing conspiracy to destroy the mother land. But first and foremost, they will do everything in their power to unseat Obama, architect of all evil, who is un-American, communist and generally a malign influence on the greatest country in the world.
An absurd fantasy? Watch the mid term election results next week in the US, and be afraid. Be very afraid.
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