You're a high school student

from the year 2055. You're studying American History, early 21st century.

What will stand out 50 years from now as the prominent history? How will we go down in world history?

Will a decline in the power of the USA be a major part of future history? Who will succeed the US as the next world's greatest power?

Will the future hold Bush accountable? Will there still be religious whackjobs controlling major parts of our country's political machine? Who will be the presidents over the next fifty years--Dems or Pubs?

Will there even be a world 50 years from now, or will the US's enemies launch a pre-emotive nuclear strike and wipe out all life on planet earth? Will the much anticipated (by fundies, at least) apocalypse come, and take away "God's faithful" and leave the rest of us heathens behind? ;)

Your view from the future, not from the here and now.

1) You use fresh water to flush your toilets.

2) Kids wanted their own bedrooms.

3) Men used to think skinny women were attractive.

There are others, but that's what stuck out in my mind when I was in high school.

Where's the civil war?

lol

I think by then a lot of early 21st century American history will be examined in context of the worldwide peak in oil production. Even if we don't peak until the 2030's (which most mainstream sources predict), the effects then will be felt badly.

By then, historians and political analysts might have concluded that 9/11, the Iraq War, etc were all related to forsight of this issue.

Aisde from that, assuming that Democrats continue to hold a majority of Hispanic voters and huge margins of the African American vote, we're going to see a period in time where simple demography brings us into an extended period of power. I foresee this situation leading to IMMENSE frustration within the fundie community, especially as they lose control in the court system. And I actually fear some fringe fundie elements, with no other recourse, going to violence as their main option of "fightin' fer Gawwwdd!"

50 years.. wow.. there are so many other issues on the horizon that could be a total mindf!ck for those of us who have become accustomed to how life has been the the past 50 years. Imagine another great depression spurred-on by our debt. Or imagine the world, which has grown tired of the USA throwing its weight around, deciding to gang-up and cut our country down to size. Or nuclear attacks by terrorists. And population-resource overshoot. And what happens when our safety net programs begin to keel-over?

These are the first things that have come to my drunken, rambling mind. How horrible.

I'm one of the countless drudge-trolls endentured to the multi-national corporate overlords.

Excuse me, I have to go. My RFID implant is going off and stimulating my pain centers. I most be running late...