AS YET UNTITLED?
WHEW! At least we’re approaching the end of the end of the Capital violence and insurrection. A page in our history book of democracy that some would like to tear out, and some would like re-written while others murmur that it is only just the beginning. I came across two items this week challenging the idea that we’re finally approaching the end of this spate of political violence. Both articles leave me perplexed and concerned.
First is the supposedly QAnon conspiracy theory about the 4 March 2021 re-inauguration of former president Donald Trump (https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-...). And the second is a recent poll by the American Enterprise Institute published by NPR on 11 Feb 2021 entitled “A ‘Scary’ Survey Finding: 4 In 10 Republicans Say Political Violence May Be Necessary.” Huh?
Both appear to be, to some extent at least, based on the belief that United States citizens “don’t have to answer to any government authority, including courts, taxing entities, motor vehicle departments, or law enforcement.” The details of the former seem to bend history, being convoluted and frankly psychotic to me. The latter is frankly appalling, with “two out of three Republicans saying President Biden was not legitimately elected” and that 30% of Americans polled, including 39% of Republicans, agreed that if elected leaders are not perceived to protect America, the people must do it themselves, even if it requires violent action. Huh? Huh?
But more disturbing, the poll reported that “white evangelicals” were especially prone to QAnon conspiracy theories, with twenty-seven percent agreeing it was “mostly” or “completely” accurate to say Trump “has been secretly fighting a group of child sex traffickers that include prominent Democrats and Hollywood elites.” Huh? Huh? Huh?
In my and William Maltese’s TOTAL MELTDOWN (Borgo/Wildside 2009), we envisioned the “total meltdown” of the the United States in a manner not unlike the total meltdown of the former USSR, but caused by an imagined president abdicating during the presidential transition, taking with him and him minions trillions of petrodollars of securities, a far cry from what we’re experiencing today, but with plausible similar effects: the loss of American prestige and power, followed by aggression by foreign powers fueled by longstanding rivalries; the mobilization of the military to defend the nation on its own territory; financial chaos; near civil war, averted through the heroic efforts of a visionary president-elect and his two most trusted political aides, Adlephous Tripler and Shawn Clarke. Committed lovers, Tripler and Clarke reluctantly separate to carry out a series of challenging tasks for their leader that takes them around the globe. With murder and mayhem facing them every step of the way, the question is, will they manage to get back to each other alive?
Total Meltdown: A Tripler and Clarke Adventure
Taking up where TOTAL MELTDOWN leaves off, in THE EDGE OF MADNESS (Aignos 2020) by Raymond Gaynor, NewAmerica, a shadow of its former United States of America, provides a challenging and dangerous future place for three young firebrands to live.
The Edge of Madness
I think of these two book as Sci-Fu (science-based future studies) — mirrors if you will, citizens can look into and decide if this is the direction they want the United States to go. Like it or not, this book duo affords the reader a peek into a future not unlike where today’s events seem to be actively propelling us. The third and final book, like our future currently in writing entitled PROPHESY will delve deeper into the course of not only NewAmerica, but NewTerra and the very nature of humanity as it sits poised to explode into space.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Je6CC...
First is the supposedly QAnon conspiracy theory about the 4 March 2021 re-inauguration of former president Donald Trump (https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-...). And the second is a recent poll by the American Enterprise Institute published by NPR on 11 Feb 2021 entitled “A ‘Scary’ Survey Finding: 4 In 10 Republicans Say Political Violence May Be Necessary.” Huh?
Both appear to be, to some extent at least, based on the belief that United States citizens “don’t have to answer to any government authority, including courts, taxing entities, motor vehicle departments, or law enforcement.” The details of the former seem to bend history, being convoluted and frankly psychotic to me. The latter is frankly appalling, with “two out of three Republicans saying President Biden was not legitimately elected” and that 30% of Americans polled, including 39% of Republicans, agreed that if elected leaders are not perceived to protect America, the people must do it themselves, even if it requires violent action. Huh? Huh?
But more disturbing, the poll reported that “white evangelicals” were especially prone to QAnon conspiracy theories, with twenty-seven percent agreeing it was “mostly” or “completely” accurate to say Trump “has been secretly fighting a group of child sex traffickers that include prominent Democrats and Hollywood elites.” Huh? Huh? Huh?
In my and William Maltese’s TOTAL MELTDOWN (Borgo/Wildside 2009), we envisioned the “total meltdown” of the the United States in a manner not unlike the total meltdown of the former USSR, but caused by an imagined president abdicating during the presidential transition, taking with him and him minions trillions of petrodollars of securities, a far cry from what we’re experiencing today, but with plausible similar effects: the loss of American prestige and power, followed by aggression by foreign powers fueled by longstanding rivalries; the mobilization of the military to defend the nation on its own territory; financial chaos; near civil war, averted through the heroic efforts of a visionary president-elect and his two most trusted political aides, Adlephous Tripler and Shawn Clarke. Committed lovers, Tripler and Clarke reluctantly separate to carry out a series of challenging tasks for their leader that takes them around the globe. With murder and mayhem facing them every step of the way, the question is, will they manage to get back to each other alive?
Total Meltdown: A Tripler and Clarke Adventure
Taking up where TOTAL MELTDOWN leaves off, in THE EDGE OF MADNESS (Aignos 2020) by Raymond Gaynor, NewAmerica, a shadow of its former United States of America, provides a challenging and dangerous future place for three young firebrands to live.
The Edge of Madness
I think of these two book as Sci-Fu (science-based future studies) — mirrors if you will, citizens can look into and decide if this is the direction they want the United States to go. Like it or not, this book duo affords the reader a peek into a future not unlike where today’s events seem to be actively propelling us. The third and final book, like our future currently in writing entitled PROPHESY will delve deeper into the course of not only NewAmerica, but NewTerra and the very nature of humanity as it sits poised to explode into space.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Je6CC...
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