Possible predictions for what could happen to the United States
in the Future:

In the wake of the decimation of Roe v. Wade, the reversal of the 53-year old Brown v. Board of Education rulling, the increasing deregulation of the airllines, as well as the beginning of the deregulation of insurance companies, and the worsening of situations abroad, most notably the Israeli-Palestinian conflict,, as well as the collapse of bridges and the underfunding or non-funding of necesary government programs, not to mention the deployment of much, if not most of our man/woman power to Iraq in an unnecessary, immoral and illegal war, along with the coinstant throwing away of good money after bad at our disastrous Iraq war, I predict at least two possibilities for the United States’ future:

Future A) As the bodycount in Iraq on both sides (i. el. Iraqi and American alike) continues to increase, there will be an incredible backlash because average American citizens will not accept anymore of what this administration is doing, and our administ ration will be forced to capitulate, because American citizens will no longer tolerate losing their own sons/daughters to a war that never, ever should’ve been waged in the first place. The downside of this kind of backlash, however, is that police and other law enforcement people will take tougher measures against people who participate in the backlash, with more beatings and jailings than there are right now, elections would be monitored to make sure that they’re not rigged like the last two presidential elections were, and people would be elect ed to office who would live up to their obligations to the “a government for and by the people” credo and be held accountable by the public for what they do or don’t do.

As good money continues to be thrown after bad at our war on Iraq, people will rise up and say...No more, and there’ll be a forced withdrawal of our troops from Iraq, whether this leadership likes it or not. This would occur not only due to rebellion from the citizen's population at large, but also due to rebellion on the part of soldiers and military brass alike against what they're presently being asked to do by our government.

The necessary 2-state solution that would definitely would be best for the Israeii-Palestinian conflict will be implemented by forcing Israel to cede West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem to the Palestinians, and Israel and the Palestinians will live in uneasy peace ialongside each other in two separate states--Israel, the Jewish-majority sovereign nation-state, and Palestinie, the Palestinian Arab majoriity sovereign nation-state alongside Israel. That's the way it should be.

There would be a full peace in Ireland, which would unite the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland into one state, enabling Cathollics and Protestants to live together.

Urban ghettoes would be dismantled, resulting in racially, ethnically and socioeconomically integrated neighborhoods with improved, racially/ethnically/socioeconomically integrated schools for all, and no necessity for implementing such divisive policies such as mandated school busing, which, in many instances, was a disaster, and has made many people more angry, suspicious and fearful of one another.

As more bridges collapse, more and more American citizens will be writing, protesting and calling their state reps, congressmen/women, and senators to provide funds to repair bridges, roads, levees, and railroad tracks. Public transportation in the cities would also have to be improved, and admissions standards on cars be even stricter, and the making of many more smaller cars would have to be continued..

A cap would be put on auto insurance and healthcare insurance premiums for all insurance companies in the country, thus ensuring that people would not be gouged unnecessarily, nor would they be denied adequate healthcare due to short staffing and overcrowding of hospitals or unavalability of equipment. More medical research would be done also, to help promote cures for various ailments such as Parkinsons, diabetes, heart dieease, arthritis, etc. Vaccines against AIDS, Strep, Tuberculosis, and many other communicable diseases would be made available,a s would vaccines against various types of cancers. Foods would be raised naturally, without chemicals and/or antibiotics, to make for healthier eating, and food co-ops would become more widespread in communities so that food would not be overpriced. Corporations would have to adhere to strict anti-pollutiion standards. Healthcare and reproductive rights, such as abortion and birth-control rights would be available to all, as would various educationi programs to help prevent teenaged pregnancies and teach responsibility to youngsters.

Due to the diversity of the United States’ population, there’d still be racial, religious and ethnic tensions, but there would be a much better ability and willingness to keep extremists and instigators in line, thus reducing existing tensions to a minimum, and people would not have to risk limb and life walking or driving through given neighborhoods and communities just simply because they're different from the people who reside in them. Community Disorders Units would be created in every city/town/village in order to monitor and keep racial/ethnic/rellgious hostilities under control and in check, and to ensure stiff punishment for people who foment the above behaviours.

Banks and real estate agents would have to comply with stiff anti-housing discrimination laws, and to allow people to move wherever they felt like moving.

There’d still be a certain amount of crime, gang warfare, and the need to protect oneself while going out at night sometimes, but it wouldn’t be nearly as intense, and people would not have to worry about the consequences of fighting back if attacked. Police departments throughout cities and towns in the United States would be required to create and maintain a Civilian Review Board, so that cops would be held accountable if any injustices or other abuse perpetuated on civilians occurs and/or persists.

The National Endowment for the Arts would be refunded, and many more people would be able to attend the movies, plays, concerts, etc, of their choice, since there’d be many venues more available to choose from.

Various government programs, such as the WIC programs, as well as various affordable housing programs would be refunded and re-instated, and civilian ownershp of handguns and assault rifles would be prohibited. Firearms would be regulated, as would hunting guns, and the Second Amendment would be enforced correctly.

More affordable housing, especially in the cities, along with improved public transportation, police and fire protection, racially/socioeconomically/ethnically integrated neighborhoods would be the norm,as would better, more integrated city public schools for all public school students. There would be movie theatres and other art venues in every neighborhood, and people would be able to attend the venues of their choice.

People who’re being bullied for whatever reason, be it verbally or physically, would be encouraged to stand up for themselves, hence making the bullies realize that they continue their bullying behaviour only to their own detriment.

There would be more concentration on fixing up our own country, rather than dominating and destroying other countries, and cars would either run as hybrids, or totally electric.. Bridges, highways, levees, subway systems, etc, would be monitored on an intermittent and regular basis and necessary maiintenance and repairs would be performed as needed. The same would be true of various public transportation systems and highways, etc. as needed.

There would be a re-instatement of our Environmental protection laws, helping to curb air and water pollution,
and to normalize our weather patterns, hence resulting in less extreme weather than many parts of our country and the world at large, has been having. The Kyoto Protocol on Global Warming would be recreated and rekindled.

Future B: This is yet another possibility of what could happen to the United States and the worl.d at large: George W. Bush and Co. would refuse to leave come January 2009, hence resulting in the dictatorship that they’ve always wanted. More mindless and unnecessary wars, like Viet Nam, Iraq, not to mention countless others would be fought, hence resulting in the loss/conpromising of many more lives on both sides--;i. e. American and adversary alike. Less and less money would be available for necessary governmental services, infrastructure maintenance and repairs, healthcare and various welfare programs here at home, resulting in the complete breakdown of government services and the entire United States infrastructure.

Various communities, such as urban areas, suburban areas and small towns alike would become ghettoized in order to become more self-sufficient. Gang warfare, drugs, and crime, which have long been mainly urban problems, would become widespread and develop in suburban and smalltown America as well. Gangs would control many, if not most city neighborhoods, suburbs and small towns alike and rule by force, making travel, especially by night, particularly risky . People , regardless of who they were and where they lived, would become more fearful, and therefore more isolated from each other, preferring to stay home and watch high-tech , big screened televisions, work straight from home, and/or choose to home-school their children, rather than walk out of their houses for fear of becoming crime victims.

There would be little to no chance for people to develop any kind of trust, much less friendship with each other as a result of this, especially because harsh security measures, such as the proposed Real ID solutions, which pose a real threat to privacy and increase the chance of the already-growing problem of identity theft in the United States, would be implemented, as would searches and seizures of people’s property and person, arousing people’s hackles, and furthur pitting them against each other. Lines would be extremely long while waiting to get on public t ransportation due to lengthy searching of everybody’s person for supposed cont raband. People who look or act suspiciously in any way or form would be subject to extra scrutiny and possibly detained. Ordinary, average United States citizens, regardless of who they were or where they lived, might well be subject to the insertion of tracking implants. Divorce rates would go up, as well.

Race relations, never great here in the United States, would become even worse. Race riots would break out regularly, not only between whites and non-whites, but between the various non-white groups as well, making the historical racial strife in the South, as well as Boston’s busing debacle back in the mid-1970’s, look like a picnic. This overall situation would be made even worse, especially with the advent of many more non-white politicians who are cast in the mold of demogogic white politicians, both Southern and Northern alike. Wars, both here and abroad, would break out with increasing regularity. Israel, correctly recognizing that keeping the Occupied Territories would put them in more danger, would ultimately cede them over to the Palestinians, pull their settlers and troops out of those sections, and one of two things would occur:

Either Israel and the Arab world at large would reluctantly come to terms with each other’s presence, or when Israel pulled out of the Occupied Territories, the following would result:
The Palestinians, in their newly-formed state would begin killing each other off at a rapid rate, hence being like Lebanon was in the 1980’s, thus being in a constant, bloody civil war, or even resembling Northern Ireland, or even many of the urban ghettoes here at home, in their implosion. Or, Israel might well experience renewed terrorist attacks, as well as attacks by Arab countries, therefore having to fight back as hard it could to defend and protect itself from the onslaught. Untold numbers on each side would be maimed/killed, and the UN Security Council, as wel as the United States, the European Union , the Vatican and the U N Security Council would have to enforce the necessary 2-state solution and regularly monitor the region to curb tensions and hostilities. Or, war would be a regular way of life in the region ( as always), and totally uncontrollable.
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The same thing might well happen in Ireland, with the fighting spreading to the Republic of Ireland, as well as throughout the North of Ireland. Persecution of religious minorities, including Jewish people here in the United States and elsewhere in the world could well be renewed, and old tensions between other ethnic, racial and religious groups here in the United States, might well be rekindled and/or made worse.

Reproductive rights would be totally curtailed, including the criminializing of abortion and birth control alike, resulting in more unwanted pregnancies, more domestic violence and more crime, and there would be many more “shotgun” weddings. Scapegoating would be rampant, as would more housing foreclosures, more severe poverty and more homelessness, and more severe illness as more people would have to make the choice of having a roof over th eir heads or having adequate health insurance or car insurance. More sickness and death would result, especially from widespread fllu epidemics and other epidemics that kill many, many people, as hospitals have to turn people away due to overcrowding. This would happen because fewer and fewer people would be able to afford preventive health care, and insurance companies, to save money, would continue to deny people life-saving tests/procedures, hence resulting in more deaths and compromising of lives due to inadequate care. Hospitals would be severely understaffed, equipment unavailable or difficult to obtain, and people would be turned away from overcrowded hospitals. For workers and patients alike, hospital-related infections causing maiming or death, would be a regular occurrance.

The gutting of our environmental laws, which have had disastrous results already, would be even worse. Pollution of our forests, streams, lakes, rivers and oceans would result in undrinkable, unswimmable water and result in the genetic mutation of various species, both plant and animal life alike, making formerly harmless species harmful, and making already-harmful species still more harmful and life-threatening. More extreme weather would also be a consequence of the gutting of such laws.

The extinction of cert ain species would definitely decimate the environment even more.

The cheapening of our culture would continue, resulting in more corruption, crime, and the rise of more incidents such as the Tonya Harding-Nancy Kerrigan incident , and sports would become deregulated, producing disastrous results on and off of the playing fields as well.

Anyway--Let’s hope this latter possibility doesn’t occur. The average American public electorate has the power to prevent all that from happening.