-Satire
The year was 2019, in the third term of the Reign of "Obama the Secular, Defender of the Right to Kill Babies, Provider of All the Citizens Need, and Great Leader." Owing to a radical Supreme Court stacked with four Obama appointees who declared the Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution unconstitutional, Obama was well on his way to becoming the first President since Roosevelt to be elected to four terms. A generation that voted for free stuff in 2008, begat another generation of voters who wanted free stuff. In time, the amount of voters wanting free stuff--and knowing they would get it from the Great One--reached a tipping point. They soon outnumbered those who worked, paid taxes, and created jobs. For the next decade they continued to vote for politicians who promised free stuff. Of course, this ensured that the King of Free Stuff, Obama the Secular, Defender of the Right to Kill Babies, Provider of All the Citizens Need and Great Leader--who never met a government program he did not like--would be re-elected for life. Owing to a piece of legislation that granted him effectively unlimited power over the most basic right of the citizen--life--few could and did oppose him. Hence, the new title--which he, by Executive Order, bestowed upon himself in lieu of the outmoded title of "President."
By 2019, the government had acquired Government Motors--which produced the Aquasludge--a tinny, politically-correct Smart Car powered by fermented pond scum, which got 50 miles per gallon, cost $15 per gallon and rode two people and one sack of groceries comfortably. If you did not hit anything harder than a marshmallow, did not want to ride farther than fifty miles, and did not need to carry anything, the Aquasludge was great--and guaranteed not to crush you in an impact less than 5 miles per hour. Gasoline was slowly being phased out, oil imports were heavily taxed by the federal government in order to improve the environment and appease Obama's radical allies in the EcoParty. The U.S. economy had dropped to the 20th largest in the world, surpassed by the BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India and China) countries who had fewer qualms about operating their economies on fossil fuels. But at least the air was .000005% cleaner in the United States and the Sandhill Crane population in Nebraska was on the rebound, spared the ravages of the Keystone Pipeline.
The government owned the press, which had willingly volunteered to merge into a new federal agency comprised of ABC, MSNBC, CBS, and NBC, named "The Department of ObaMedia." Its mission it was to herald the accomplishments of the Great Leader, produce Obama Infomercials, and explain new government controls on the peoples' lives. All banks were nationalized and combined into one mega bank-- "ObamaNational." Secular Humanism replaced religion because Government had outlawed God and had, therefore, become God. Slowly, imperceptibly, the government chipped away at individual freedoms until, in time, there was very little not controlled by the government. Obama's official motto for the Socialist States of America: "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs" was ratified by Congress eight years earlier--at the same time the name of the country was changed by Executive Order. "In God We Trust" was outlawed and stricken from all currency, government buildings, and any form of official correspondence. While the new motto suited those who wanted free stuff just fine, to the minority who worked hard, created wealth and jobs, paid taxes, and financed the hungry beast known as the Socialist Federal Government (or, "Uncle Sugar," as it was affectionately known), it was not such a great thing.
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