THE CATASTROPHE- BUSH'S SECOND TERM
Today we have begun to crawl. James Baker at the Madrid conference on the Middle
East, October 30, 1991.
...I will do what I have to do to be reelected. George Bush to David Frost, December 23,
1991
It is our duty in concluding this book to venture a number of forecasts concerning how
Bush intends to conquer a second term as president, and what policies he might pursue if
re-elected. Because of the inherent role of free will in human affairs, it is seldom possible
to make accurate and detailed predictions of what individuals or entire political
formations might do over a period of time. It is even more difficult to see into the future
in a time of great historical upheavals, as in these closing years of the twentieth century.
The denser the historical singularities are packed ahead of us, the more uncertain is our
view down the road. What we can reasonably hope to do is to exclude certain
possibilities, and to identify a range of other possibilities which are likely to occur. We
can also distinguish between what George Bush may intend, and how reality is likely to
diverge from those intentions.
Because of the mentality of Bush as an individual, and because of the shared implicit
philosophical world outlook of the social formation which he represents (the Eastern
Anglophile Liberal Establishment), we can readily postulate that there could be no
economic recovery from the current depression during a second Bush administration, but
only an exponential exacerbation of the present trends towards austerity, misery,
unemployment, the decline of living standards, and the primacy of usury and looting
throughout the economy. What else could be expected from a Bush campaign staffed by
such corsairs as Robert Mosbacher and James Baker?
Similarly, we can identify Bush's compulsive urge to cement his hold on the White House
through police-state methods. To see that Bush hopes to survive 1992 thanks to a
hyperinflationary surge of easy money and lower interest rates that will provide a coup de
grace for the agonizing dollar, we need only read Secretary Brady's press releases. And,
after two October-November crises centering on the domestic economic collapse which
Bush neutralized politically through foreign aggression and adventurism, we will need no
crystal ball to identify the impulse towards crushing yet another developing country in
the name of the fascist New World Order. Whether Bush can realize these obsessions is,
of course, another matter.
Finally, the awesome dimensions of the current economic depression, extrapolated into
the period 1993-1997, will dictate a type of concentration camp economics which will in
turn necessitate the abandonment of the present empty husk of constitutional legality in
favor of rule by decree and an openly totalitarian state. We will examine the preparations
Bush has already made for dictatorship.