Originally posted by wavejams007
...but in a witty turn of events, the ACLU turns into a comunist government, and everything is censured, so no one on either side can say anything, for fear of "offending" someone.
It would be like the communist government in "1984."
We'd spy on our own citizens without representative oversight.
We'd wage endless wars against concepts, which, of course, can't be defeated.
The enemy would become one amorphous mass, and so we wouldn't care how many of them die.
If you were to lodge any complaints about the government's behavior, you'd be labeled anti-American and a friend of the enemy.
Justification for serious actions would shift as necessary.
Fake, pro-government news stories would be supplied to, and aired on, mass media.
Supposedly independent news columnists would be secretly paid to write propaganda.
Previously unbelievable truths, like global warming is not happening or evolution is just an unsupported idea, would become widely accepted.
Citizens would be caught up in meaningless conspiracy theories propagated by a few loud-spoken conspiracy theorists.
The states with the highest intelligence, tax rates, and most history would be labeled the most morally corrupt and least American.
We would be holding American citizens indefinitely without the right to trial.
The government would insist that it has never lost the moral high ground, ever.
Yeah. That would suck.