Here they are, the first ever, annual, never to be repeated, Watson’s Predictions for 2008.

(The male, father-version of the Watsons, that is…)

1. Hillary will be nominated for President. She’ll win…but nobody will be able to remember voting for her.

2. I will move to India and become a goatherder. Although India will be equally repressive of freedom, their repression can be bribed away and their food is better.

3. America will enter a new age of tyranny, as the President seeks to override her constitutional limitations on power in an attempt to make good on massive campaign promises (or “his” if my first prediction is wrong) (see our last 5 presidents) by making laws as well as executing them. Congress will continue to pass useless laws and let the President do whatever he / she wants in the form of executive orders and military intervention

4. The tyranny will be unrecognized for the most part, as people will be getting the benefits of massive wealth transfers from rich to the rest of society, and young to old, especially in the form of socialized medicine. Any urge left to be gainfully employed and live an otherwise moral life will be massively undercut as people realize that the government really will compensate for massive moral laxity in the form of free medicine and health care.

5. Eventually, we will end up like Rome, where the Caesar ran everything, the Senate was a useless body under the indirect control of the caesars, the populace was incredibly degenerate (see here and here) and expected bread, health, and entertainment from the government.

Am I too pessimistic…or not pessimistic enough….?