Idiocracy was a Zuckermanesque take on a cut back society.

COnservatives push new laws for decades until an opportunity opens up and they get it passed. 12 states are trying to pass Sharia Law laws. Behind those are actual proposals to criminalize becoming a muslim.

Civil rights have been attacked with patriot acts by saying, "if you don't do anything wrong you have nothing to worry about".

Once we became a nation in which the subject of torture was a legitimate question of expedience, the slippery slope turned into a cliff.


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The look of the country will be shaped first in televsion programing starting with abolishing npr and then the cable wars will begin.
What doesn't muster destruction by law will be done by money and the ownership of new distribution agencies.

Fear of breaking a written or unwritten blasphemy law will become more powerful than the war on terror under Bush.

The market will be Christian friendly and bar trading with unbelievers.


In short the woes that Pakistan is suffering today, America will suffer tommorrow but under a "opposite religious state".