Currently reading Christian Nation by
Fredreric C. Rich. Premise: financial crisis was delayed a couple of
months in 2008 and McCain won. Then died shortly thereafter. Palin
invites in Christian Dominionists, who engineer Christofascist take-over
that by around now in the alternate history timeline is on the verge of
becoming full blown totalitarianism (there’s a civil war and very
creepy 1984 like total information state that emerges).
The book is polemical and not really entirely plausible, but it does remind us, as when he keeps referring to Sinclair Lewis’s It Can’t Happen Here (1935), that those who think that are wrong… it could, and we have to remain vigilant to make sure it doesn’t.
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