Jack of Harts

The rich son of a Corporate magnate beat the Central Council candidate for the Presidency of San Santiago in an unexpected landslide. But the Council candidate had an insurance policy. She had paid someone to assemble a file suggesting he was a Chinese Communist asset. So she publicly accused him of voter fraud and labeled him an illegitimate President, a literal Manchurian Candidate that only the worst kind of closet Communists would vote for. She called on her supporters to go to protest the illegitimate election and stand against the Communist takeover of their world. “Not Our President” protests soon filled the streets of the capital, and the news networks broadcast her charges and footage of the protests across the planet and the rest of the sector.

The San Santiago political landscape shifted in a day when the rich son of a Corporate magnate won the Presidency on a Pro-Colonial platform. The platform was of course a lie. All of the news networks knew it, and their reporters wailed on live broadcasts about how impossible this was. They realized within days that they had helped him get elected by not pointing out his obvious ties to the Chinese Communist Party. And the news networks vowed to never again let the man who was “literally Mao” get away with it. They called on all right-minded citizens of San Santiago to stand against the new President-elect, and his whole cadre of Communist sympathizers. They all deserved to fly out of helicopters. That being the natural way to deal with all Communists.

Humanity is a religious animal. From our earliest times we believed in gods. And we believe in gods even now. They are not in many cases the same gods, but we do believe in them nevertheless. Many of us believe in the God of the Bible or the Torah and we try to follow the dictates of that God. Many of us follow Jesus and try to follow his teachings. But there are many who turn away from that God and say that they are moving to a new and better post-religion society. But remember on this weekend that God sent a piece of himself to Earth to teach us to be kind to one another and we hung him on a cross. Most people who turn away from God do not live a peaceful agnostic life. Most choose new gods to follow, and they make sacrifices to their new gods.