I have no doubt that if Romney wins, it will be because he stole it.

I also have no doubt that the next four years will see most if not all of the following:

Unemployment so high, and underemployment so pervasive, that theft will rise drastically. Bodily harm crimes will also escalate, as violent men realize women are no longer protected, and as the intense pressures of poverty and diminishing freedom across the board cause people to boil over and wreak mayhem.

The existing police forces will be unable to cope; more police will be hired, and their directives will become more draconian.

New judges appointed will be fascists, just like Romney. They will impose harsh punishments, those at the limit of the execrable existing or new even more ludicrous judicial guidelines, and more people will serve jail time instead of probation for minor infractions.

There will be a need for more prisons. These will be privatized, like the one in Pennsylvania that ruined the lives of teenagers for the profit of the prison's owners and the graft going into the pockets of the judges.

The US currently has the largest percentage of its citizens in jail in the world. This will increase. You won't have to worry about having only two workers to pay the freight on each retired person; they'll also be paying part of their minimum wage salary to incarcerate those who were just a little more desperate and stole to feed their kids.

Education, already laughable, will become non-existent. It is not possible to teach science the way the fundamentalists would have it taught; the US will become a backwater of scientific thought.

Nor will there be any art and literature worth the money to blow it up; baggers look with disdain on intellectual pursuits and creativity.

Monsanto will have its way with the food supply; look for more disease even among the few able to eat as much as they require.

There will be virtually no health care except for the corporate top ranks and those few proles the Romboids need to keep THEIR bodies and souls together. People will die miserably and needlessly.

There will be at least one more theatre of war. This will account for any extraneous and unemployable young people; the draft will return. The draft Romney avoided.

It will be mandatory to go to church. Jews and Muslims and non-believers will be in terrible danger.

Women will be reduced to begging for scraps from their husbands, and will have to endure rape and pregnancy without relief or solace.

Wild spaces and national parks will be sacrificed to the logging and oil companies.

Air quality will be sacrificed to whatever industry needs to pollute the air to line Romboid pockets.

The internet will be compromised, with levels of use accorded along political lines; censorship will begin.

All those who thought Romney would be good for them because they work in finance, for example, or because they hate black men, will find that they are no more than the slaves they consider others to be and loathe. They are deluded if, unless they are in the billionaires' club, they think Romney will give one tiny iota of concern for them. He hasn't until now: will those stripes change when he has his hands on the greatest wheel of power in the world?

I truly believe that, next to Romney, George W. Bush was a piker. All he was able to do was ruin America's reputation worldwide; begin two endless and useless and unwinnable wars and kill millions of innocents; destroy a huge surplus and run up $10 billion in debt in two years; overturn American freedoms as fundamental as habeas corpus, and; wreck the biggest economy in the world, and most of the others as well.

Romney will do worse. See above...and realize that is only the beginning.

LATE NOTES: My heartfelt thanks to the Teabagger bagman who gave this column a rating of 1. You have proven my assertions correct.

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I failed to mention abortion, an issue near and dear to the stony hearts of all Republican men, apparently. Rmoney has not just publicly backed a man who would make it a felony for a woman who was impregnated by rape to have an abortion. Question: Why don't you Republican throwbacks simply round up all the women, keep us locked in a cave, by force of arms exercise your little man whenever you want to, and demand that we cook and sew for you. That's what everything you've done in this election cycle amounts to, and any woman who doesn't recognize it and vote against it may well deserve what she gets. It's just unfortunate that the rest of us will have to live with it as well.

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Over and out

