Wanted: Sci-Fi Movie

Episode 6 of “THE OUTER LIGHT” is up – and speaking of sci-fi, I think POTUS needs a jolt of futuro fantasy in his campaign.
It was the show “THE NEWSROOM” on HBO that gave me the idea. Both “THE NEWSROOM” and CNN report to the same master, Time-Warner. I truly believe that Aaron Sorkin, all on his own, decided to take on the insipidity of the broadcast news business. But it is also not inconceivable that T-W said, “Hey, West Wing dude, how about juicing our ratings with a love letter to an old-style news operation like CNN?”
Which brings me to President Obama.
For his love letter, I picture a movie or miniseries in which a dude or dudette from the future drops in on 2012 Earth to tell us how poopy everything went after Romney won the election. Think of it like a “It’s a Really Not So Wonderful and Perhaps Even Sucky Life” – a look at the what-if scenarios associated with Obama’s defeat.
- The healthcare mandate will be repealed, photon-torpedoing Obamacare, and as a result the ballooning costs of healthcare tank the USA’s biggest corporations, forcing even more out-sourcing.
- India and China ride that wave and eventually join forces, forming Indochine, and when they run out of water they attack and colonize America. Our national dish became curried rice.
- Romney will rattle one saber too many at Iran. They call his bluff and lob a nuke at Israel – only it fizzles on launch and lands on Tehran, turning it to kebab. Rumors spread via Twitter blame the attack on Israel and a new Mideast war will break out.
At home, unemployment rises to 17% but drops 3% when Congress agrees to privatize all federal functions and hire back many of the same workers the Romney administration will earlier fire because “the government is too bloated.” It drops another 2% when no one can decide who is legally able to set a speed limit on Interstate highways and traffic fatalities rise by 7,000%, thereby eliminating a good size chunk of the job-seeking pool.
Coal mining will increase three-fold and within five years global warming increases to the point that New Yorkers start driving their Priuses to The Hamptons in March.
But the stranger from the future tells Obama that it’s not too late to change the timeline. There’s still hope .
And oh, by the way, it’s in 3D.