Or it might dramatically increase the number of Predator drone attacks being launched against our "ally" Pakistan.
We might get a government that still won't close down Guantanamo.
We could wind up with a government that does nothing (other than to continue to send billions in support) when Israel builds illegal settlements in the West Bank that further damage the prospects for peace in the Middle East.
We might have a government that continues Bush's policy of claiming the "state secrets" privilege in cases involving torture, rendition, or other violations of Constitutionally guaranteed civil liberties even worse than those (see below), asking courts to dismiss them without even hearing any evidence.
We could have a government in which the president actually claims the right to assassinate American citizens.
We could have a government that won't do anything about ending "Don't
Ask, Don't Tell," continuing to dismiss from the military patriots
willing to die for their country whose only crime is having a minority
sexual preference.
If we're not careful, the next government might actually go to federal court, asking that suits against Clinton's anti-gay "Defense of Marriage" act be blocked from even being heard.
We could have a government that sics the FBI on non-violent anti-war peace organizations, searching their premises and seizing their property on the basis of ridiculous trumped-up charges of abetting terrorism.
We might get ourselves a government that continues to increase "defense" spending, even though the US spends more on its paranoia budget right now than all the other countries of the world combined -- all 200 of them -- and even though we are currently in a massive fiscal crisis due to egregious over-spending.
We could have a government that would appoint a fiscal commission stacked with appointees focused on denying benefits to American seniors in the name of balancing the budget. This new government might even appoint a lunatic like Alan Simpson as the commission's co-chair, even though he has publicly described Social Security as "a milk cow with 310 million t*ts."
We could have a government that immediately fires any civil servants who are attacked by Glenn Beck or similar monsters, even when they completely fabricate allegations against those people.
If we're not serious this November, we could get a government that won't do anything about global warming, even while ice caps melt, Russia burns, coral reefs die, and we sweat through the hottest summer ever on record.
We might get a government that would open up huge tracts of environmentally sensitive off-shore zones for oil drilling.
We could have a government that would help to cover up for companies like BP when they wreck the environment.
We could have a government that would let companies like BP be in charge of dealing with a massive oil spill, instead of having government agencies created to serve the public interest handle it.
We could have a government that knows that such federal agencies have been completely captured by the special interests they're supposed to regulate, and yet does nothing about reforming them.
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