and legalized, well, everything, and turned the country into a happy little Godless commune, would they then become the conservatives, trying to protect the new status quo?\nAnd would conservatives then be regarded as liberals, trying to get things back to normal?
128543
nope. we are liberals and since everything has been changed for the better in your story there would be nothing left to  change would there?
412494
Sure would clean up a lot of corruption if they followed that now wouldn't it?\n\nMan went away from God. That's where all the corruption comes from.\n\nIf we all followed the Bible correctly there would be a lot of harmony in this world.
457900
Now this hippie have gotten a little older there could be a hippy hippie.    I do not think  we cll em hippies anymore.  Just plain druggies ought to do it.
639563
I couldn't have said it better myself. You are so right. the Neo-Cons should be asamed of themselves for even using the term "conservative." Conservatism essentially means small government, which they clearly do not believe in, though they say they do. "Marriage = Man+Woman," they say. To coin a phrase... "Only a SITH deals in absoloutes."
566227
yeah well pull out all the troops, the hippie bastards will cheer and pat themselves on the back while everything completely goes to shit without the military there obviously.  oh..and the whole world will become best friends and live in peace.
98685
I think we should.  People would then move to where their ideas are held important and are tolerated.  The states that ended up most successful would become models for the others.  Also decentralization would help remove the imperialistic tendencies of the federal government and cause less world wide hatred.
631813
i am american, Im NOT Christian.\n There are about 2 churches in 1 neighhood ratio, that is how people are brought up, to believe the same thing and be orderally. I mean what would happen if people actually thought for themselves? It all ends up being affliated with the goverment, they want masses of people thinking the same things so they dont have to deal with other crap, people wouldn't all vote for some pertically person because he said something about there god...I mean what happened to seperation between state and church?!
368382
OH MY GOD!!! THOSE POOR STRAIGHT PEOPLE WOULD BE LOST!!! there would be no more FABULOUS PARTIES! who would arrange the weddings for the brides to be, their mothers and future mother in laws, yeah right. that would be a disaster. who would wait on them in the fancy resturants? the big hairstyle would go back 50 years to the bee-hive. every other homes interior would be the same plain and camoflauge. there would be no good music or new dances. those poor breeders would go back to doing the hokie pokie and think they were styling. and then there is the styles. men would be wearing sweat pants and "wife beaters" and they would not cleanse theirselves for weeks. women would be reliving all the old styles of the past because no one would be there to give them new ideas and create awsome clothing lines. women would take one look at all the nasty men in sweat pants and "wife beaters" and run. there would be no more couplings and no more children. this would be the end of their civilization. and when they were all dying who would take care of them because most of the people in healthcare are gay and we would be gone. not to mention all the tax dollars nad revenue that we produce. i know all this sounds good on paper but there are some good breeders out there like my parents and a few close friends. so we wouldn't want to get rid of all of them. but i guess we could take a selected few with us though couldn't we? LET'S DO IT!!! LOL!!!
645476
It's not what they're smoking -- Libs just NEED to feel good about themselves.   I use to be a Democrat and somewhat liberal.  It made me feel good to be on the side of the party of the "common man."  It made me feel good to trash the "rich" Republicans.  It made me feel good to be for peace.  It made me feel good to be for equality.  It made me feel good to support social welfare programs.  Then I started reading and listening and thinking and I concluded that today's Democrats are not the Democrats that my parents and grandparents supported (and therefore I supported). They are more like Socialist who want the CENTRALIZED CONTROL OF AMERICA and a political-economic policy that boarders on communism.   The Socialist programs of the New Deal and The Great Society have failed for the most part and are destroying our country.  Now I am much more conservative, and a great deal worried.
645175
It will start with small erosions of US rights, timed just so that we don't put all the pieces together until it's too late. Perhaps an illegal election? (check) Someone hiding behind religion or terror as a response to everything? (check and Check)  A leader who doesn't understand warfare, yet is quick to send the troops to war, with no plan, no end,  no scope, just wanting the underlings to protect HIM (Check, Check and Check) An empirical ruler who  will sacrifice all rights to discredit anyone who goes against him (Valerie Plame and her husband, Check) Slowly you start to lose your rights (we can listen on your phone calls) Check.  The country runs out of money and either has to count on money that's not there (Iraqi oil Check) or money you fabricate (As long as there's ink we'll keep printing money.  Check) \nA puppet being played for a fool by others higher up than them? (check, check) then there's the absolute cronyism that comes with being in absolute power (Haliburtan, et al, Check) because you're too thick and do everything as a knee jerk reaction and don't care about the "People" anymore,  they are not your friends they are trying to destroy you!( Maniacal Check, check, check) \nThe environment is ruined for generations to come because your empirical thinking doesn't go past the next day. (check) The Allies that were once your countries (not YOURS, your countries) friends turn against you as a leader so ipso facto the country (check) You start a home based fear in your own country, BE WARNED guys it's coming... it's either gays or foreign people. He's dipping into the pool of public opinion with both.  Illegal immigration anyone? Gay Marriage? Like the Jews in Germany, someone will be made a target.  The common theme in any end of an empire is that a power hungry fool brought it down, (CHECK< CHECK< CHECK>>>>) Then after dividing the country and the world at this point, someone will take over.  Hopefully it will be afriendly someone, but after his antics, not likely.
110519
This would be the best answer to the Republican Party - that way they would quit being shameless liars and saying that they spoke to "GOD" and "God told them to do this or that"\n\nThough there is SUPPOSED to be a seperation of Church and State, they never seem to abide by that rule either
410208
That's the great thing about America.  If you're not happy with the way things are, you try to change it.\n\nI wasn't aware that people were expected to leave if they weren't happy with the way things were at the moment.  Wouldn't that be cut and running?\n\nOn a side note, why don't the Conservatives leave if they're so unhappy with the gays, abortion, etc?  My guess would be it's the same reason - they hope to change it.
467484
oh my goodness, all the laws I would repeal.... I would have to go through all of them one by one and start marking writing bills to repeal so many... oh, it would take me sooooo long to write all those bills, I'd be writing from the moment I got up until the moment my day was over.... \n\nLaws that spend our money carelessly especially would be repealed, I'd propose cuts so many social programs and propose layoffs to so many people and force them to get real jobs in the private sector (God knows they need to work for a living instead of sponging).\n\nI'd insist on the tax cuts being a permanent deal after 2010. I'd have to propose two new bills for law though, one demanding one bill one law (no more of this padding the bill with things that have nothing to do with the law being proposed), and the other making it illegal for Federal, State and Local government to tax income and spending and property.... No more three sided taxes, choose one and call it a day.
534730
It would be the "Land of Jousting."  The Republicans on one side of the country and the Democrats on the other.  They would shout insults at each other and then give each other the "thumbs up" or the "thumbs down."  Some would be clones and would try to sneak into the other side, but they would be caught and would suffer unbearable thumbs down before they were "deleted."
247608
I doubt it. As long as there are people who are trying to live the laws and be concientious about choosing people to represent them as they see fit, I don't think that a totalatarian government would be able to take over. If everyone were to become apathetic and not care, then it might be possible, but I don't see that happening. The beauty of the US government is that each person has the right to express their own opinions and can be totally within their rights. We can't be thrown into jail for our beliefs.
107657
Don't despair.  All things in life are circular and cyclical. What does that mean?  Eventually the people with the greatest of political power/those in control will lose their status because of their success affords them more opportunity to fail and then they are thereby exposed.  The further things swing to right, the more they will eventually have to go to the left.  So, the more successful they are at advancing a far right extremist political agenda, the greater the eventual swing back to the left will be so maybe/probably one day National Health Care, equal marriage rights for all people, things which are tauted as extreme left positions will be seen as possible and fair.
159695
I think that they would be amazed with all the government red tape. Jefferson believed in limited government involvement in peoples lives. Washington being a general would be surprised in the military both foreign and domestic. And I think they would be surprised on how much of a world powerhouse (the United States) the 13 original rebel colonies turned into. They would be pleased in all the good things and distressed with all the bad.