A Bush Victory in 2004 - What Would It Mean? What's the Mandate? [View All]

In raising this question, I am NOT addressing the very real possibility of election fraud. However, to me, the 2004 election not only represents a choice of leaders, but a fairly straightforward choice on some basic policies. My question is: What would a Bush victory say about what the American electorate supports?

To me, a Bush victory, means that Americans are in support of the following:

1. America can invade countries without justification;
2. Torture and kill individuals so long as its done in the name of anti-terrorism;
3. Limit the liberties and privacy of Americans at home through the expansion of the Patriot Act and similar legislation;
4. Eliminate environmental protections;
5. Privitize and limit social security in favor of private investment accounts;
6. Lower taxes and increase the deficit for the benefit of the richest Americans;
7. FERC can support the enforcement of energy agreements that companies such as Enron obtained through fraud in the energy markets;
8. Simultaneously preach that employees should obtain health care coverage from their employers, while opposing union efforts to bargain for such coverage (remember the California supermarket strikes);
9. Not be held accountable for the various falsehoods the administration has spread over the past four years (WMDs, decrease in terrorism, cost of Iraq war, etc.)

I think it is a pretty clear choice between Bush and Kerry, however if Hitler could garner a significant degree of support from the German public for his anti-semetic policies, then it could be no problem for Bush to get the electorate to embrace his own facist policies.