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Philosoraptor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-11-09 06:48 AM
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What would America look like if the right wing insane had their way?
Let your imagination run wild.
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kaiden Donating Member (811 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-11-09 06:51 AM
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1. For starters, it'd look like the Handmaid's Tale.
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Mari333 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-11-09 06:52 AM
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2. ...i think its been done
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lunatica Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-11-09 07:23 AM
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9. At first glance that picture looks like a nice family portrait
But then you look at the boys' eyes and it begins to get creepy. Suddenly you start noticing the father looks a touch menacing and either protective or domineering.

Interesting
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Mari333 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-11-09 07:27 AM
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13. yes and only the women are smiling
the others have a vacant stare...right before they shoot you, i guess..even the baby looks evil
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lunatica Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-11-09 07:45 AM
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22. It's definitely an obvious message but it's also on subliminal levels
The older boy is a Brownshirt who's 'watching you' and the younger one is a future Brownshirt. The mother is a baby making machine and the daughter is just a faceless mere girl watching her mother and the baby joyfully waiting to emulate her. The father is, of course the undisputed authority who guides and protects them.
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TuxedoKat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-11-09 07:53 AM
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26. Also
Neither the mother or daughter is looking back at the viewer but look happy and carefree. Hard to tell what sex the baby is, it seems to be halfway looking at the viewer but doesn't look happy at all. All the males are looking straight back at the viewer very seriously and don't look happy. It has a disturbing and patriarchal tone overall.
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jgraz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-11-09 06:53 AM
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3. You mean for more than the past 8 years?
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cali Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-11-09 06:53 AM
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4. it would look like Taliban ruled Afghanistan
in many ways. Abortion rights: Gone. Other reproductive rights: Gone. Laws restricting the rights of non-christians: In. Women's rights: diminished radically. Evolution in schools: Out. Bible based curriculum in public schools: In. And on and on.
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OneGrassRoot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-11-09 06:53 AM
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5. What's the color of the background when you click on my message?
Edited on Thu Jun-11-09 06:53 AM by OneGrassRoot





















































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zbdent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-11-09 07:33 AM
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16. you're forgetting ... that would be the color of those with rights ...
the people who actually would be doing the labor would "taint" that ... but then, they wouldn't have rights or money ... or lives ...
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armyowalgreens Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-11-09 06:53 AM
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6. We wouldn't exist.
The former US would be a wasteland with nuclear blast zones pocking the landscape of our once beautiful country.

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KharmaTrain Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-11-09 07:02 AM
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7. January 21, 2001 - January 20, 2009
Shall we total the damage? Two wars for profit...an economic collapse...destruction of the middle class...total corporate domination of vital industries...wiretapping phones and reading email...torturing...outing undercover CIA agents for political gain...

Shall I go on????
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lxlxlxl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-11-09 08:26 AM
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27. My answer exactly....I've seen enough the past eight years. I will not go through that again.
xxx
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MNDemNY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-11-09 07:23 AM
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8. Much as it looks today.
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cali Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-11-09 07:26 AM
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11. Are you kidding? If the Randall Terrys and Newt Gingriches had free reign
it would be far different and far worse. it's absurd to claim that where we are today is no different than if the radical right controlled gov't.
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MNDemNY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-11-09 07:43 AM
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20. Don't fool yourself, the "right wing" is substantially "in charge" now, they have been for 30+ years...
Edited on Thu Jun-11-09 07:45 AM by MNDemNY
I think we have very different definitions of "right wing".
On edit: A "national health plan" that is comprised of only private for-profit companies, is "right wing".
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cali Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-11-09 07:49 AM
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24. I think we're reading the OP differently
I don't think the OP was primarily referring to the economic right which spans both parties but to the social religious right.
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western mass Donating Member (718 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-11-09 07:24 AM
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10. Afghanistan, with strip clubs and McDonalds
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distantearlywarning Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-11-09 07:26 AM
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12. A friend of mine once said, in answer to this question
"A bunch of middle-aged white guys, who would then start killing one another over shoe size or hair color"
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ColbertWatcher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-11-09 07:29 AM
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14. The worst part of a Moscow slum? n/t
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mrs_p Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-11-09 07:30 AM
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15. while we are all waiting for the apocalypse
Edited on Thu Jun-11-09 07:32 AM by mrs_p
women would no longer have access to birth control or abortion (even if her life depended on it) and couldn't see a doctor without a male relative in the room
prayer would be mandatory at every public and private function
corporations would dictate every public policy from health care, to environment, to infrastructure
no taxes at all; thus, no public services, except for police
the poor, which would be ~75% of the country, would live in squalor, with high birth and mortality rates - and would be executed for any perceived "sin"
oh yeah, public executions
no gays allowed - they would be sent to re-education camps
education would resemble sunday school and science would be outlawed
of course, no public funds for scientific research
women, blacks, jews, latinos, asians, any person of color would not be allowed to attend school or read or write or congregate unless it was for an official church function
churches would need to seek approval to be considered thus
all literature, TV, movies, art would have to go to government committee before release to the public
liberals would be imprisoned, as would anyone who questioned their rule

there would be an underground of resisters though, and i know most here would join.
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ColbertWatcher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-11-09 07:36 AM
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17. A Randian- Friedmanesque- Norquistian- Reagandish wet dream? n/t
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KittyWampus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-11-09 07:38 AM
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18. Somalia
Edited on Thu Jun-11-09 07:38 AM by KittyWampus
with a few well guarded enclaves.
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Renew Deal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-11-09 07:45 AM
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21. Great minds...
:D
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KittyWampus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-11-09 07:48 AM
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23. Sadly, when it comes to failed states and Banana Republics there is a long list to point to
:(
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Renew Deal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-11-09 07:39 AM
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19. Somalia
:shrug:
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surrealAmerican Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-11-09 07:49 AM
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25. Like a christian version of Saudi Arabia.
Thankfully the right-wing is diverse enough not to have a single vision. Some want theocracy, some just want unregulated businesses and a lack of government services.
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Javaman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-11-09 11:40 AM
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28. Read, "the handmaid's tale" for your answer. nt
Edited on Thu Jun-11-09 11:40 AM by Javaman
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leftofthedial Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-11-09 11:42 AM
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29. Exactly like a cross between Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia,
with a little Disneyland thrown in.
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