One Election Away from Cultural Annihilation? We're There

Ed. Note: This column was written in 2002 as a prediction of what might happen the next time the Democrats controlled Congress and the presidency. Some of the topics mentioned here were on the front burner of the news cycle at that time. Since we now face the specter of leftist domination of the legislative and executive branches of government, these old predictions are getting their day in the court of public opinion.The political airwaves are filled with opinions about each major party's chances at winning or holding control of the federal legislative branches in the November election. The same airwaves are devoid of one crucial implication: we are one election away from cultural annihilation.If the leftist Democratic Party wins control of the U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives, the cascade of moral regression in America will turn into a raging torrent and the resulting flood will completely overwhelm the nation we once knew.The U.S. Constitution and America's sovereignty are already on life support. The next Democrat in the White House and the next Democrat Speaker of the House -- in conjunction with the leftist-controlled Senate -- will pull the plug and euthanize the America of Washington, Lincoln and Reagan.Your state government going into leftist hands will contribute to the leftist overthrow as well, only closer to home. Take just one issue, for example: most states can already expect legislative challenges to the legal concept of marriage, regardless of which party has a majority. Just think of what will happen when the leftists gain control of legislative bodies. Just think of the way RINOs (Republicans In Name Only) will vote on issues when their leftist friends call the shots.Here's a list of nightmares we can look forward to the next time leftists gain super majorities at state and federal levels. We may never recover.Public Education

• Complete homosexualization of the curriculum
• Completely open doors to Planned Parenthood sexual education
• Overwhelming pressure to ban home schooling and alternative schools  
• Complete defeat of the voucher movement
• Leftist socialization of children at the expense of actual learning
• Continued decline in the performance of U.S. in international scholastic competition, resulting in an increase in the number of foreign nationals required to fill America's high-tech work force
• The death knell for the abstinence movement

Taxation

• Tax increases at virtually every level, crippling the economy by reducing the amount of money people circulate
• Unrestrained socialist attempts to re-distribute wealth
• Taxation of everything from diapers to caskets
• Restoration of the death and marriage taxes
• Use of the word "tax" phased out in favor of the more politically correct word "contribution"
• Look for an Internet tax and an e-mail tax
• Increased bankruptcies by small businesses

Judiciary

• Appointments and confirmations emulating the worst elements already present on benches
• Constitutionally-challenged courtrooms at all levels
• Lighter sentencing
• Higher crime rates
• Higher rates of recidivism
• Escalation of exclusion of church in the state
• Increasing emphasis on perpetrators they did the crime, rather than on the mere fact of guilt
• Increase in frivolous lawsuits and jury awards
• Open season for reparations lawsuits

Military

• Reduced funding of the military
• Non-traditional uses of the military
• Social engineering, weakening the military
• Lower morale in the military
• Increased cannibalization of military equipment for parts
• Gutting of the intelligence community
• An increase in retirements and career moves out of the military
• America will be at great risk in an increasingly dangerous world

Natural Resources

• Additional land use restrictions
• Cooperation with radical/restrictive United Nations land use programs
• Ratification of the Kyoto Treaty and recognition of the mythical global warming, harming the U.S. economy
• Increased dependence on foreign oil
• Increased dependence on foreign timber and other products
• Inflation, due to the increased cost of importing products we formerly produced ourselves
• Decreased access of national parks and forests
• Increase in eco-terrorism with little in the way of deterrence from law enforcement
• Increase in pantheistic worldview

Crime

• Greatly increasing
• Job security for white collar criminals serving light sentences and going to work for television networks as analysts
• Lowering of the age of consent
• Full implementation of hate crimes, stifling free speech
• A proliferation of commissions to study why people commit crime -- at the expense of incarceration
• Early release as the answer to prison overcrowding
• Increase in situational ethics
• Increase in corporate crime
• Proliferation of the holocaust on children, born and unborn
• Personal ethics determined by moral relativism, leading to less and less consideration of the welfare of others
• Groups like the Boy Scouts holding to traditional views will be criminalized

National Security

• Increase in terrorism in the U.S. and abroad
• Erosion of personal freedoms
• A cottage industry used to expand the size of government
• More deaths

Health Care

• Will be increasingly socialized and federalized
• American taxpayers will provide health care for an increasing segment of the Mexican population
• HMOs will be outlawed
• Increasing STDs and AIDS
• Increasing regulation
• Higher insurance premiums skewed by pairing of high-risk groups (i.e., homosexuals) with lower-risk groups (heterosexuals)
• Demonization of pharmaceutical companies and efforts to federalize the industry

Borders

• Immigration laws will be greatly relaxed or generally ignored
• Number of border patrol agents will be reduced
• Funding for border control will be reduced
• Message to Mexico will be: "come on over!"
• Terrorists will be welcomed with open arms

Gambling/Lotteries

• Tremendous proliferation state by state
• Eased restrictions will lead to Las Vegas-style gambling throughout the U.S.
• Number of gambler's anonymous chapters will explode
• Increase in number of compulsive gamblers
• Increase in suicide by compulsive gamblers
• Increase in bankruptcies by people blowing their money on lotteries and casinos
• Increase in divorce and broken homes
• Increase in juvenile delinquency
• Decline in business communities surrounding casinos
• Proliferation of organized crime
• Increase in collections efforts of utility companies
• Proliferation of the industry will entice federal government to dip in for a healthy slice of the pie

Human Rights

• Legislation to maximize abortion
• Increased acceptance of euthanasia
• Government-approved human cloning and embryonic stem-cell research
• Acceptance of miscreants and deviants forced upon the population
• Multi-culturalism run amok
• Continued decline of human rights for those holding traditional beliefs
• America endorses globalism and one-world religion
• Increasing demonization and marginalization of Christians