A brief look at the future
By 2036 every record had been destroyed or falsified. Every history book had been rewritten, every historical photograph and critical date had been altered. Every statue, every street, every building had been renamed. All that existed was an endless present in which the Party was always right." (--edited from George Orwell's "1984")
By 2028, thanks to millions of Democrat voters, the Democrat Socialists of America controlled...everything. At first the Democrats had bleated that most Americans considered the DSA's policies far too radical to support. But once DSA candidates started defeating Dem incumbents, and the Democrats realized they couldn't win without DSA votes, every Democrat politician had rushed to embrace the same policies they'd claimed to oppose only weeks earlier.
Funny how that works, eh? Power easily wins over foolish consistency, right?
As a result most analysts were stunned to see how fast the combined votes of DSA supporters and "regular" Democrats won...everything. And as they'd openly promised on their webpage in 2026, they'd quickly made DC and Puerto Rico states, which instantly gave 'em control of the senate (which they'd effectively had anyway because of the filibuster).
Next they got four more Dem-ruled states to join the "National Popular Vote Interstate Compact," which abolished the Electoral College and elected the president by the winner of the national popular vote. (If you haven't heard of that, google "NPVIC.") They'd openly promised to do that in 2026.
Next, as they'd openly promised in 2026, to avoid the Supreme Court rejecting their plans, the DSA/Dems added 12 new "justices," all appointed by a committee of congressional Democrats. So the Court was now a rubber-stamp for any DSA policy.
With the Court now controlled by the DSA, the DSA-controlled congress abolished the senate--as they'd openly promised in 2026.
Next--as they'd openly promised in 2026--they had the DSA president issue an Executive Order that all future presidents would be appointed by members of the House. In the past such a huge change to the Constitution would have required a Constitutional amendment, but because the new, expanded, DSA controlled the Supreme Court, the new justices agreed that amending it wasn't necessary, cuz...reasons. Pick anything you like: "National emergency"? "Climate change"? "Saving the poor"?
Next, as part of their openly-stated promise in 2026 to de-fund the military, the DSA cut the military budget in half, and ordered all U.S. troops out of the mid-east. Iran instantly re-took control of the Strait and charged every non-Iranian oil tanker two million dollars per load. The price of oil surged to $120 a barrel--but since they DSA government had banned gasoline cars, that only hurt the few U.S. voters who hadn't junked their gas-powered car for a faaabulous new EV.
Iran also resumed developing an atom bomb, which enabled the mullahs to intimidate every EU nation into doing as they demanded.
Next the DSA--as they'd openly promised in their published platform in 2026--enacted "Medicare for All," free daycare and free college for everyone who wanted to go. Of course none of it was free, and it increased federal spending by $3 trillion a year. But the Washington Post and the alphabet networks gushed that this was absolutely the most faaabulous thing EVAH!
Next the DSA-ruled congress increased the minimum wage to $50 an hour, and banned electric utilities from using natural gas to produce electricity. Cuz "global warming," eh? But of course since the total U.S. demand for electricity was far more than wind, solar, nuclear and hydro could produce, and no one wanted to lose their electricity, within three months the price of electricity had tripled--once again proving the old laws of "supply and demand."
With the huge increase in the price of electricity, "advocates" for the poor sued, so the DSA-ruled congress quickly, effortlessly passed a law that anyone who claimed to make less than $50,000 a year--including "undocumented Americans"--would now be given "free electricity."
Of course a few deplorables and editors realized the electricity wasn't really "free," just paid for by the gruberment--meaning taxpayers, meaning money borrowed by the federal gruberment. And because no one was required to actually verify their income (which wud be raaaacis'), instantly half of Americans got "free" electricity.
And since even today 47% of Americans don't pay any income tax, they weren't paying indirectly either.
Then in one of those unpredicted effects, tens of thousands of people who now got electricity for free realized they could make tens of thousands of dollars a year by quietly installing hidden chargers for electric vehicles, and charging neighbors who had to pay for their own electricity $20 for three hours.
ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS and MS-NOW gushed that "free electric fo' duh po'"--and all of the other DSA policies--were duh mos' faaaabulous ideas EVAH--because the top priority of the Mainstream Media is supporting the Democrat Partei.
Of course all those programs combined cost six trillion dollars a year, and with the national debt over $50 trillion no other country wanted to buy U.S. T-bills unless the interest rate was over ten percent. And for awhile the DSA put up with that. Soon the annual deficit was $4 trillion a year--and we had to borrow even more money just to pay the interest.
Many DSA members of congress were surprised to learn that even huge nations had to pay interest on borrowed money. Since they'd never taken Econ-101 (which obviously wasn't required for a women's-studies major) they'd always thought governments could simply print as much cash as they wanted. "Why not," eh? So the DSA came up with what seemed an obvious, brilliant solution: if you have to pay interest on borrowed money, but don't want to, just don't borrow any more. Instead, just print whatever you need.
It's SO obvious, eh?
A few "journalists" with at least a spoonful of economics knew history had proven again and again that this was a bad idea, but the DSA's daily talking points (just as the Dems used) said "Dis iz a faaabulous idea, so don't say anything bad about it."
So the Media didn't.
So the DSA cranked up the printing presses. And just as happened to Weimar Germany and modern Venezuela (if you don't know, google both), inflation quickly jumped to 5%...per WEEK. A staggering 260 percent annually. And that was just for starters.
Soon a dozen eggs cost over $100. (In Venezuela two eggs cost a day's salary.) Even worse, savings carefully built up from years of work were now worth only 5 or 6 percent of their earlier value. Voters screamed bloody murder. But never fear, because the DSA was run by brilliant leaders like AOC and Kamala Harris--who quickly devised what seemed to be an obvious "solution" to complaints about high prices. Can ya guess?
Of course you can, citizen! They ordered price controls imposed on a hundred common agricultural products, including meat, milk, cheese, butter and--oddly--alcohol.
Since the max price the DSA rulers allowed producers to charge was less than what it cost to produce those items, producers couldn't make a profit by selling at the government-ordered price, eh? So can ya predict what happened?
Sure ya can! The supply of those items did just as Econ-101 said it would (as proven again and again): they quickly vanished from store shelves. Producers still made 'em, but only sold a small number at the DSA-commanded ceiling price.
Whoa! So whaddya think happened to the rest of the production, eh?
It vanished into the "black market." (If you're not familiar with the term, google it. Happens whenever gruberments try to command people. If you're a young American, ask your parents to explain "black markets." If they don't know, look it up.)
Faced with continued shortages of critical products, how do ya think the DSA-run government responded? Wow, you already guessed! They sent armed agents from the Treasury Department to seize farms and factories that claimed to be producing less than before the decree, and prosecuted the owners. The Washington Post and the alphabet networks fawned over this, saying the DSA move was faaabulous cuz the companies and farmers were "profiteering" by selling on the black market.
And note the term "profiteering" instead of "making a profit." The Media chose the former word carefully, cuz not all Americans yet thought "profit" was a bad thing. But "profiteering" sounded bad, and by then 70% of Americans agreed that socialism was preferable to eeeebil capitalism. (Polls show that even today 60% of Democrats--not just DSA members--believe socialism is preferable to capitalism.)
And of course with "profit" and capitalism demonized by the DSA and their Media parrots, who do ya think was courageous enough to defend either? No one.
Then to re-start the seized factories, the DSA-controlled gruberment hired illegal aliens as government employees--with lavish salaries and pensions.
And as anyone who's ever had to deal with the Department of Motor Vehicles knows, that worked exactly as you could have predicted. Crippled by gruberment red tape and govt-employee-union rules, output actually DEcreased, and soon only government officials could buy once-common products like meat and butter. But just as members of congress exempted themselves from taking the jab for the Chyna virus, government officials were deemed "critical employees" and special government shops were created to let them buy things no longer on the shelves of other stores. Instead ordinary citizens learned to plant "victory gardens"--a term from WW2.
The alphabet networks and the Washington Post started running 2 or 3 articles a week gushing over how "victory gardens" were making Americans more healthy by avoiding pesticides and chemical fertilizers. They gushed that the trendiest parties hosted by "the elites" in DC and NYC were now serving tasty dishes made from the hottest new food craze: mealworms. "Absolutely fabulous!" gushed the Post. "A taste sensation," fawned ABC.
Of course the elites weren't really eating dishes made from mealworms, but the DSA paid "influencers" to rave about it (just as the Dems already pay influencers to rave about Dem policies), and college kids instantly heard it was cool, so they did it--and then bragged about it to their frenz.
After four years of DSA policies, 30 million new illegals had become U.S. citizens, and all voted for the faaabulous DSA. The U.S. economy collapsed, and China bought a third of the most productive farmland in the U.S. All totally legal, of course.
A couple of conservative orgs tried suing, but both lawsuits were thrown out by leftist judges because of "lack of standing"--the same way all lawsuits about election fraud are usually dismissed. Conservative voter: "How can you claim I don't have 'standing' to sue for election fraud?" Leftist judge: "Because I can. Now shut up or I'll jail you for contempt."
By 2050 the "old, unfair, capitalist" U.S. was only a distant memory. Only gummint officials were allowed to fly--because by definition they were important. (And of course by that time jet fuel was so expensive that average Americans couldn't afford the fares even if they'd been allowed to.) The Washington Post and the alphabet networks gushed that this was actually a great thing: "The DSA is saving the Erf from fatal globull worming!"
By 2070 smart young Americans realized the U.S. was doomed and began emigrating to freer nations like China, Qatar and Iran, where smart, creative people could still buy steak, homes and cars.
By 2050 no American believed that back in 1970 four Air Force pilots making $25,000 a year could buy a single-engine Cessna airplane to fly to college football games, or that plumbers and electricians could buy 150-horsepower bass boats for pleasure. Or that almost any American could easily afford to fly to Europe.
As a famous author wrote 90 years ago, that world was "gone with the wind." (Hat tip to Margaret Mitchell, 1936, writing about a time as far removed from 1936 as 2050 will be from 1970.)
Sadly, almost no one reading this will have any idea what I'm talking about. And fair enough: all your time is taken by trying to keep your family fed and keep a roof over their heads. I get it. That's your top priority--as it should be. You don't have the spare time to spend worrying about what's happening to the country. By great luck, I do. and I understand that most adults don't.
By huge contrast, angry, childless socialist liberal women have all the time in the world to demonstrate and organize. Their beta-male counterparts are the editors of Mainstream Media rags, and producers of all the network "newz." Without kids (or for highly-paid Media editors) such people can effortlessly afford to give the DSA $5,000 campaign contributions. You and I can't afford to do the same for the few genuine conservative candidates out there. I totally understand.
Not to despair, citizen: Everyone knows all great things must eventually come to an end, and we've had a great run. And really, in the long term what difference does it make whether the end comes in 2030 or 2050, eh? And besides, it'll all turn to shit so slowly (mostly) that most people won't notice.
"We're only particles of change...orbiting around the sun." --Joni Mitchell
My sincere thanks to the wonderful women I've known who have put up with my ramblings. May you be richly blessed. And if I sometimes seemed preoccupied, distant or clueless, I deeply apologize, and look forward to apologizing in the next life as well. Your love and devotion enabled me to do...whatever the hell this is.
And for men who may have some idea of what's happening here: some vestige of grace and hope will still be possible even as life in the DSA-ruled future turns much more difficult. Won't be easy, but still possible.
