Marx Was Right (?)

Here is the outlook as I see it, folks:

In the 2008 elections, the Republican Party is going to suffer the most sweeping losses in modern history and wind up with a deficit in the House of Representatives of more than 70 seats, and the Senate may be similarly dominated by Democrats.

John McCain's campaign to triumph over Barack Obama by acting like a Conservative Democrat who believes that all Americans are "compatriots" and that we must move beyond partisanship simply isn't going to get any traction in either the MSM or among the population. The electorate is hungry and eager to throw any and all Republicans into the wilderness. His "cross the aisles" campaign is furthermore going to hasten the breakup of the existing Republican Party as we know it into a group of infighting factions, all of whom detest each other even in their impotence in beating Barack Obama at the polls. The McCain campaign can read the newspapers itself: it knows that it is getting absolutely no grace period or honeymoon from the MSM as a result of its much-ballyhooed "friendliness" to the media in the past several years.

With the Congress firmly in hand and the Presidency a rubber stamp, the Democrats are going to run up one side and down the other of this country enacting Socialist legislation. The Blue Dog Democrats and the old-guard Capitalist liberals are on their way to being purged by a younger generation of Leftist Progressive Democrats in the mould of Markos Moultisas and Howard Dean. Not only will they continue to centralize control over the economy in Washington, the legislative agenda in Washington is going to work to overturn every single principle and initiative that was the hallmark of the Reagan Revolution, which is now well and truly finished.

The Democrats have outflanked, outmaneuvered, and outsmarted the Republicans at every turn in the past four years. When they achieve control over both houses of Congress and the Presidency, the transformation will be complete and irreversible. Our leadership has been rudderless. Our media savvy has been execrable, and the reversals have already begun before the election has even taken place.

We will have eight years of a Democrat in the White House, making common cause with our enemies and working at every turn to slow down the American economy to fight global warming and place larger and larger swathes of our country under federal control -- everything from energy production and consumption to corporate profits to taxes are going to move sharply leftward in ideology and intent. The United Nations is going to become the sovereign political body in the world, and the United States will be brought to kiss its ring. Anyone Conservative or neo-Conservative will be systematically purged from government positions in the State Department, the Department of Defense, and many other organs of the State.

The personal and corporate tax rates are going to return to levels common before the Reagan administration. The supply of energy will not increase: it will decrease, and consumption will be made more expensive. American job creation in manufacturing sectors will continue its flight overseas. The cost of running a small business and doing the things needed to run a small business, like pay the electric bill and have products shipped, will continue to rise. The government will respond to the increase in poverty by redistributing the remaining wealth on an unprecedented scale. Business owners will join the Democrat plantation becase the Democrats will pick and choose which ones they think should survive.

Judicially, there will never be another strict constitutionalist appointed to the Supreme Court. Those days have come to an end with the appointment of Roberts and Alito, because the intellectual apparatus for producing qualified Conservatives as Supreme Court justices is going to be completely dismantled at the university level. The federal court appointees under an Obama administration are going to make Jimmy Carter look like Barry Goldwater by comparison.

The Republican Party, the GOP itself, is going to be reduced to a handful of squabbling malcontents who operate at the fringes. They are going to be the next Dennis Kuciniches. Our country is going to see a massive influx of new immigrants under the rubric of diversity, and all of them will be taxpayer supported. They will be made eligible for driver's licenses, government-supplied health care, maternity leave, welfare, unemployment benefits, and social security.

All of the advances of the past 10 years in terms of the 2nd Amendment will be gradually stripped away by legislative fiat. The Assault Weapons Ban will reemerge in a new, much stronger form, and handgun ownership and semiautomatic rifles and shotguns will be banned across the board.

On energy policy, our policy will be attrition and boondoggle. We will not drill in ANWR or the outer continental shelf. We will not remove the moratorium on shale oil research. We will not build any new nuclear power plants. The price of energy will rise, forcing people to adopt Green policies a-la Great Britain, and businesses will be forced to comply with sticks. Many of them will leave the country as a result.

My advice for people is to batten down the hatches. From the things I've seen and read recently on this blog, the infighting, the op-ed columns by people like Noonan, the words of a Senator in a conference call, and most importantly the likely election results in Congress and the executive branch, it is no exaggeration to say that Marx has won.

Welcome to the United Socialist States of America. We couldn't keep the Republic.

You have about a year, by my reckoning, to figure out how to stash enough money and supplies away while thinking about how to get out. Unfortunately, you have no place left to go. Once the U.S. is gone, that's it, folks.