The Ghost of America Yet to Come – Part 1

In “A Christmas Carol,” Charles Dickens introduced a plot device of having his protagonist Ebenezer Scrooge “educated” by three spirits; the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Christmas Present and Christmas Yet to Come.  Each of these entities showed Scrooge the reality of these time periods in his life and how his descent into brutal miserliness and heartlessness had negatively impacted both himself and those around him spiritually and physically.  And since over time the damage done by and to Scrooge was cumulative the future was of course the bleakest picture and promised the complete destruction of Scrooge’s immortal soul.

Well, A Christmas Carol has nothing to do with the future of America except inasmuch as both concern a once promising entity straying from the path of reason and virtue and slowly degenerating into an evil shadow of its former self.  But hey, it’s 9pm and I have to go with what comes to the surface.  So, let’s give this a rattle.

How about we look at what will happen if we continue on the path we’re currently on.  Well then, let’s start with the 2024 election.  Let’s assume that either because the current voting population prefers the Democrats or because voter fraud is used effectively by them, Joe Biden or someone else from the Evil Party is elected to the presidency.

That will effectively seal the end of the Constitutional rule of law at the federal level.  Undoubtedly, by 2028 the administrative state will dismantle all of the Bill of Rights as they apply to federal rule.

We will see the increased use of kangaroo courts and juries to punish Republican voters and congressional representatives whenever they get in the way.  And I would not be surprised if by then they pack the Supreme Court to curtail things like Freedom of Speech and Religion and the Right to Bear Arms.  All these things are already being put forward as part of the Democrat agenda.

I’m also assuming they will continue to expand the “green agenda” and fossil fuel for home heating and transportation will be increasingly difficult to afford or even obtain.  This will effectively limit the amount of freedom of movement that the average American will have.  Instead of jumping in your car and taking the family a couple of states over for a camping trip or sightseeing holiday, everything will be mediated through mass transit.  Travel by bus or train will become common.  If the crackdown on fossil fuels has moved far enough along airplanes may no longer be a common means of transportation except for the truly wealthy.

By 2028 the effect of uncontrolled immigration will have had a truly profound effect on the American landscape.  All large cities will resemble the third world with homeless encampments and shanty towns making them chaotic, crime ridden and subject to outbreaks of various dangerous communicable diseases.  Policing of these jurisdictions will be under the authority of federal law enforcement and no local law enforcement will be allowed to prosecute non-citizens without permission.

Digital currency will replace paper.  Which will probably be a necessity since inflation would make carrying paper money difficult.  And speaking of inflation, it will be brutal.  Price controls will be introduced but the quality of products will become problematic and a great premium will be placed on things that actually work and commodities like food products that aren’t greatly adulterated.

Foreign relations will not be too good.  I foresee a sort of 1984-like relationship between several large antagonistic alliance systems.  Between wars, guerilla wars and insurgencies peace will be a scarce commodity.  And military service will be mandatory.

Population growth, other than immigration will disappear.  The share of native-born Americans will decrease rapidly due to the very high cost of living and anti-family propaganda.  American culture will become increasingly debased and what passes for mass entertainment will be geared toward morons.

The government will apply greater and greater resources to propaganda and pharmaceuticals that encourage euthanasia for anyone who isn’t happy.  And short-term incentives will be used to encourage this process, like a sumptuous last meal.

So, like the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come I have a very bleak vision for us of the future.  Now granted this is a worst-case scenario but I don’t think I extrapolated very much at all.  All these things are already happening.  I’ve just brought them to their inevitable conclusions.

So sorry for the downer.  Tomorrow, I give an alternative that is based on a less drastic but still possible future.  Ho, ho, ho.