If a republicalican becomes president next how long do you think it will take before they institute a full?

Question

dictatorship?

Answer 1

Assuming the Republican follows the unitary executive theory set forth by Bush and Cheney and Rover....

About two years -- enough to keep things running smoothly and get more Republicans elected to Congress -- at which point Congress will authorize even greater executive powers under the unitary executive model.

It will probably also take that long to appoint another executive-supporting Justice to the Supreme Court, to block any challenges to the assumption of power.

But not all Republicans would do this -- just some.

Answer 2

Republicans are not interested in creating a dictatorship. Dictators do not encourage free enterprise and low taxes nor do they tolerate voluntary armed services.

I guess a more realistic question might be "If an ultra-conservative fundamentalist religious-right republican becomes president next, how long before they attempt to take away all of our personal liberties?" The nightmare scenario is less a dictatorship than a theocracy.

An equally good question might be "If an ultra liberal socialist leaning democrat become president, how long before they attempt to take away all of my hard earned salary to pay for all the social programs they would want to install." This nightmare scenario is closer to a dictatorship because we would lose the ability to decide how to spend our own money (though we would have more freedom on other things like who to marry etc. and thus it would be far away from a Theocracy).

Both extremes are terrible. As a (former) Republican, I am very dissapointed in what has become of my (former) party. But I could not go far enough to the left to feel comfortable with the Democrats either.

P.S. Blogbaba is an idiot if he really thinks a socialist government is salvation. Maybe if your dream is to sit around on your *** all day smoking pot and collecting money from the state, then a socialist government would be a good thing. Otherwise, I would think that you would want a government that would allow you the freedom to choose your own career, maybe take some risks by starting up a business or whatever, work hard, and reinvest your earnings into your future. In the countries that have gone the socialist route, this was never possible, and these countries accomplished very little good for their people.

P.P.S - For those of you who think we already have a dictatorship.... you have no freaking clue what life is like in a real dictatorship. For starters, you would never be able to even make such a dumb a** statement as that because the government would prevent you from having access to forums like this. If they suspected you of making such statements, you would be imprisoned or murdered. Only in the places that Blogbaba calls the "WTO fascist" states are such political statements not only allowed but actually encouraged!
Try making a statement like that in a country like N. Korea, Iran, China, Myanmar, Zimbabwe, etc.

Answer 3

The America of my youth that I pledged alligence to is gone, Reagan started it's destruction, and it continues to this day. The Federal Government is already a dictatorship, it is as facist as any, and by "facist" I mean corporate run by big business, this is not a Nazi reference.

I have no idea if the United States can survive in a globalist facist world, but that is what all non WTO political governments face. A world run by unopposed global facists. There is no difference between the Democrates or the Republicans, both the left and right are selfserving puppets of big business. The taxpayers of the United States are treated as cattle by big business and Bush and Cheney answer to no one other than their corporate masters.

A form of Socialist policy is the only hope for the general population, and it doesn't appear the rich elitist owners of the Federal Government will allow it, so it can only get worse. The U. S. is all but a third world country in most areas right now, and only the priviledged few benefit from what the Repuglicans are doing.

If a Republican becomes President after Bush, Armageddon would be a more welcome conclusion than four more year of current U.S. domestic neglect.

Answer 4

I don't believe most Republicans and certainly not any of the current candidates would institute a dictatorship. That is unique to the current Administration and their supporters. Once they are gone we can all breathe a sigh of relief.

Actully the question is moot because there won't be a Republican in the White House for at least a decade after this one leaves. He has screwed things up so badly that Democrats will have a very easy time winning a landslide in '08 and probably win in 2012, 2016, and possibly 2020 too.

Answer 5

human beings might desire to open their eyes and see that Republicans and Democrats are in basic terms opposite aspects of an identical coin. And that coin is at present living interior the pocket of the massive companies and particular interest communities! No GOP candidate will do something to enhance the economic gadget, and Obama won't end something the two. Partisan rhetoric is in basic terms dropping time. Why won't be in a position to human beings see that the events are in undemanding terms attracted to triumphing, they don't care with regard to the middle classification! The Reps wanted the U.S. credit status to get downgraded, not because of the fact it would help us, yet because of the fact, it would want for use as ammunition to help them win in 2012!

Answer 6

If a democrat becomes president next how long do you think it will take before they institute a full surrender to our enemies?

Answer 7

Read "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood. It was frightening when I read it in the 80s; today it seems almost apocryphal. The technology, and the reach of the technology, portrayed in that book when it was pseudo-science fiction is now entirely possible.

[added] HarryD - why would anyone OPPOSED to a dictatorship want to GO TO a dictatorship? No one who answered that a dictatorship is coming is saying they WANT that - they're lamenting what they see as the current propensity toward it.

Hurts to think, doesn't it.

Answer 8

I would say that everyone who answered that a dictatorship will be instituted should leave the US now, while the getting's good. North Korea, Cuba, Iran or Venezuela would be good choices for their new country.

Answer 9

I didn't notice any Republicans making a proposal for a dictatorship over a democracy. As far as I can tell, they are all for a peaceful change of government leadership via election, every four years. Now...there are nutjobs in congress who want to circumvent this system via impeachment, because they don't like the way the war is going. As much as I don't like democrats, I don't even see any leading democratic presidential candidates that support this...so they may be for the democratic process too...unless it's a close election, then they will try to undermine it with "hanging chad" and "butterfly ballots made our people vote for Patrick Buchanan".

Answer 10

.Republcalican......REPUBLICAN.what makes you this? that's why we vote! fifty States will never allow a dictatorship to exist! in the U.S.A. WE THE PEOPLE! and the Democratic party is no different than the Republican party in my opinion. I am tired of DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS! vote for these two parties and you get business as usual. the people need to vote for the other parties.