Americans, thoroughly disgusted with the socialistic programs that have been thrust upon them over the last few years, vote out 17 of the 19 Democrats in the Senate and 178 in Congress that were up for reelection.

The year is 2011. The United States has become saturated with suspicion and unrest. Since early 2010, President Barack Obama, President Felipe Calderon of Mexico, and Prime Minister Stephan Harper of Canada have been conducting private meetings with each other and various political heads of the U.N. None of the meetings are open to the media, let alone the public.

Thus describes the future as imagined by a "2011 Obama's Coup Fails," a new online video game that capitalizes on right wing fears of the Obama administration. In the game's near-future America, President Obama has dissolved the Constitution and outlawed private gun ownership, and 20 million armed "patriots" have begun seizing local and federal government offices.

The site promoting the game, United States of Earth, assures that it is merely "action-packed, satire-filled" entertainment. But the game's creators also advise that, "If current events keep transpiring as they are, then 2011 Obama's Coup may in fact become a dark chapter in American history."

These doomsayers are not purportedly anti-Obama, but rather a group of libertarians living in Brooklyn. They say they are not advancing any particular agenda, and that this game is merely one of many United States of Earth projects they envision that will engage players to build their own empires and "dominate other players' regimes across real-world maps."

David Corn of Mother Jones reports that the site will launch an "Ambush" game next week, in which players can hunt down former president George W. Bush in Texas.

Corn asked Michael Russotto, one of the designers, why they decided to launch with the Obama game. "For the most publicity," answered Russotto. "There's a lot going on with Fox, the White House, and we wanted to capitalize on that."

Satire or no, "Obama's Coup Fails" depicts precisely what the right wing propaganda machine is touting as the certain outcome of the president's "socialist" efforts. Reenacting a worst-case scenario that like the one described by the game's creators is not likely to bring any reason into the boiling political climate in this country. And reason is, frankly, what we need most right now.

But hey, I'm sure Glenn Beck is happy. As Corn writes, even if Huffington Post readers love the "Ambush" installment, the site is for now a "right-wing wet dream." What do you think of this new game? Is it merely harmless entertainment, or something else?

[Image: United States of Earth]