Jack of Harts

Another way that the Convention of States changed the nature of America is in the way they handled political prisoners. They passed a blanket amnesty to every single political prisoner of the old regime. Then they ordered the political prisons torn down since they were too inhumane for anyone but political prisoners. Criminals had rights like due process, livable conditions, medical care, and access to lawyers after all. And when their investigators prosecuted the ruling class politicians and bureaucrats, most served time in various Club Feds. Only the worst served hard time in high security prisons, and many of those were to protect them after all of their convictions hit the public record. Criminals have standards you know.

The United States of America came out of the Second Great Depression a far different nation than it had been before. Decades of political warfare between Democrats and Republicans over who got to loot the treasury, with the same people winning and losing more often than not, had bankrupted the nation, and the 49 States who called the Convention of States were simply done with it all. One step they took during the Convention was to outlaw any national political party named after a form of government, and then they took specific measures to shut those two down hard. That didn’t end the age old disagreements of course. Politics continued under different names, but America was a different nation by then. Even politics had to bow to that change.

I played Dice Throne with friends this weekend. It’s been a while, but we’ve been going through Dice Throne Adventures for a while and it is fun. I think we are not that good at it, but it is an awful lot of fun. Throwing dice, working together, and fighting minions and bosses as we go through the dungeon crawl. I absolutely love it. Well, any good chance I get to play games with friends is something I love, especially when we can get together and do it in person. There’s just nothing like it.