toreskha
Titles are un-American.
Now I have officially seen it all. Let me make this clear. Barack Obama is not a megalomaniac, he does not have plans to rule the world, and he does not plan to kill people by the millions.
It's not Barack the individual I'm scared of as much as his legions of supporters and the ideology that he represents. Certainly his drones can justify whatever they want, in the name of whatever momentarily reasonable-sounding purposes they can come up with.
- Shootings or gun-related negligence leads to anti-gun laws, under the guise of making a "safer society".
- Economic problems lead to government meddling in the economy, because of inevitable market corrections that people can no longer live with.
- Unpopular opinions (eg, Prop 8 in CA) leads to oppressive, Gestapo-style bullying (gays rioting against the Mormons), or other unjustified outrage over anyone expressing an independent thought or opinion that isn't in line with the mainstream.
- Natural disasters lead to government enforcing de facto martial law (post-Katrina gun seizures in New Orleans, an anti-gun stronghold), private property invasion, and generally defecating on the rights of citizens, with no regard for anything that the United States is founded upon.
- Stupidity leads to hand-holding and a lack of political will to tell people to take care of themselves - whether it's people making poor financial decisions and then declaring bankruptcy, or building their house in a known forest fire/flood zone, and then acting surprised when - OMG - it gets destroyed.
- Practically anything else you can think of that causes the population at large to be more stupid, dim-witted, slow and unable to think for themselves than ever before.