収束ゾーンでのライフ: Life in the Convergence Zone

It’s amazing how quickly paranoid delusions can go from being paranoid delusions to being the black-letter reality on the ground, isn’t it?

I mean, I was mad about the Bush II administration making the Edgy Left actually correct in ways they’d never actually been correct before, via his torture regime, via adopting hideous domestic policies including mass surveillance (with Democratic complicity), and via the horror show of their war in Iraq. Unfortunately, they actually did.

But even then, there were limits. I was assuring my nervous friends that Bush II, despite all this, was functionally an old New England Republican when it came to matters of having a Republic, and that he would leave office on time and in an orderly fashion – as he did – just as I assured Republicans that Obama would do the same.

Now, obviously, all of that is out the window.

So I want to present a list of items which are very well documented facts, but would’ve been absolutely, patently insane 10 years ago. I mean, the kind of rantings that got you thrown out of every conversation and mocked for years afterwards – and which are all now verified as true. It’s mostly not a list of their social agenda, thought there’s a bit of that at the end; it’s mostly a list of their authoritarian agenda, and the lengths to which they are going in their attempt to claim absolute power forever.

As a reader on Discord said, “stuff just keeps coming back today!” and, well, it is the first time I’ve managed anything in Of Gods and Monsters in a really long time.

I’m not confident this adds as much to the story as I’d like but it does add something, and it’s got decent length to it, so. 2620 words, this instalment rated T, series still of course rated M.

[Read on AO3]

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