Bush is rapidly turning the USA into which science fiction movie?

[Enraged_Ape]

Poll question: Bush is rapidly turning the USA into which science fiction movie?

Which one do you think our country most resembles? Or if none, which do you think we are directly headed for? And why?

[phantom power]

1. Defnitely RoboCop, where everything is being privatized :-)

[Ravenseye]

2. yeah

Poor people getting poorer, rich people living separate lives with the police there to protect them and their business interests from the masses.

[YankeyMCC]

3. Rollerball

I nearly picked Robocop but Rollerball also portrays a world where everything is privatized but with the added bonus as war between the corporations (in the form of the game).

And I've used this analogy before in discussions. Bush and co are already privatizing war. How many "contractors" are in Iraq now shooting at "mercenaries"? Not to mention the other military duties "contractors" are performing like interrogation, etc...

[Ready4Change]

4. Along with pre-emptive knockdown of competition.

I managed to track down the short story the movie was based on. The movie did it justice, I think.

[Ready4Change]

5. But also: What? No "1984?"

Seems a natural here.

[blindpig]

6. They Live

Nothing else adequately explains the suicidal destruction of the biosphere by an elite that knows better.

It makes at least as much sense as the rapture crowd.

[BulletproofLandshark]

7. War of the Worlds

Our world (The United States) versus everyone else's world.

[Bok_Tukalo]

8. No "Handmaid's Tale"?

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[Technowitch]

9. A combination of 1984 and "The Handmaid's Tale"

Merge Orwell's infamous dystopia with religious hyperfundamentalism plus antifeminism.

Then you have Shrub's Amurrika

[ashmanonar]

10. THX 1138, baby.

although idk about that, the THX world is a little too egalitarian for bush's tastes.

[TygrBright]

11. Farenheit 451 n/t

[TechBear_Seattle]

12. Yes

It is scarey to see how may once fictional dystopias are becoming real in the United States: The Handmaid's Tale, Robocob, Rollerball, Blade Runner, Fahrenheit 451, Nineteen Eighty-Four.

[Sabriel]

13. What's the Ahnold one where they hunt people down on live TV?

That's where "reality" TV is heading, IMO.

[FloridaJudy]

14. "Running Man"?

Or maybe that was just the title of the Stephen King novella it was based on.