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tahnanIn October 2008, Focus on the Patriarchy put out a letter written by a Christian in October 2012, looking back on the disaster that had been four years under Obama. It's an interesting read, if for nothing else than to see just how alternate his alternate universe is.
There's a lot in there that FotP can wave their hands about. In their preface, they say, "This letter is not 'predicting' that all of the imaginative future 'events' named in this letter
will happen. But it is saying that each one of these changes could happen and also that each change would be the natural outcome of" trends among Democrats (emphasis theirs). So however wrong they will have turned out to be, they can say that well OK but it wasn't a prediction. And the first half of their letter (which is mostly about how homosexuals will take over the country) is heavily predicated on the Supreme Court turning insanely liberal, so of course none of that happened because Kennedy and Scalia didn't retire, but it totally would have.
But among the things that of course have totally happened just like they said would happen are:
I think Jeanne Dixon had a slightly higher accuracy rate.
There's a lot in there that FotP can wave their hands about. In their preface, they say, "This letter is not 'predicting' that all of the imaginative future 'events' named in this letter
will happen. But it is saying that each one of these changes could happen and also that each change would be the natural outcome of" trends among Democrats (emphasis theirs). So however wrong they will have turned out to be, they can say that well OK but it wasn't a prediction. And the first half of their letter (which is mostly about how homosexuals will take over the country) is heavily predicated on the Supreme Court turning insanely liberal, so of course none of that happened because Kennedy and Scalia didn't retire, but it totally would have.
But among the things that of course have totally happened just like they said would happen are:
- Obama appointing far-Left judges to the Supreme Court
- Obama ordering the end of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" in his first week in office (after which, of course, the military gave signing bonuses to gay soldiers)
- Obama signing into law the "Freedom of Choice Act" (which he in no way called "not my highest legislative priority", contradicting a statement during the campaign)
- Al-Qaeda swarming into Iraq a month after US troops left, killing "hundreds of thousands" of American sympathizers
- Obama ending warrantless wiretaps and giving "access to a number of government secrets" to accused terrorists to aid in their defenses
- Russia invading the entirety of Eastern Europe, and the administration sitting back and letting them
- Diplomatic relations strengthening with Cuba and Venezuela
- Single-provider health care passing, resulting in the immediate rationing of health care to the elderly
- Right-wing talk radio being shut down
- The Justice Department filing "criminal and civil charges against nearly every Bush administration official who had any involvement with the Iraq war"
I think Jeanne Dixon had a slightly higher accuracy rate.