The New America

Chapter 1

March 2, 2018, trees began to grow on both sides of the ugly border fence built to keep illegal immigrants out of the southwestern United States and no official could explain why. It was amazing that the trees were all apple trees and grew in places where water was plentiful and where water was not suppose to exist. Nevertheless, trees grew and in September of each year apples began to mature in abundance.

March 2, 2028, the government of Mexico now had the world’s largest army, patrolling the border trying to keep the droves of gringos from climbing the trees at night jumping the border fence and evacuating southward into Mexico from a land that had become a place where decency was politically dangerous and moral degradation was the norm.

Excellence in schools and employment were dampened by official policy that sanctioned mediocrity and advocated equality in all things and punished anyone who studied or worked harder to increase their output through self improvement. That was looked upon as arrogance and only government officials could legally aspire to that virtue.

All acts of violence by any group, race or creed against any other was classified as “hate crimes” and sever sanctions both in civil and criminal law were legislated in 2010 to root out any discrimination.

There were two groups that could be victimized without punishment at all, and they were called the radical cerebralists and the producers. These were those who aspired to be self reliant and to be non-dependant on the government and this was an ideology that was viewed with disgust by a majority of the people who had become complacent about their own liberty for fear that they may have to think and produce for their own support.

In 2010 the United States armed forces had been disbanded and the defense budget went to almost zero. Domestic spending increased exponentially and everything was cheap and free, and, the masses became intoxicated with the euphoria of hedonism unchecked.

The government removed freedom from the producers by taxing 100% of their production and returning a small portion to them for their bare survival. The producers and the cerebralists were guarded by the domestic police who were the most corrupt and self indulgent citizens whose power was predicated only on their ability to be ruthless and harsh on any minority group that failed to give all they had to the government for “redistribution”.

The domestic police had received the unlimited supply of weapons and ammunition that had been abandoned by the now defunct military. And, there were only two minority groups, the producers and the cerebralists.

Chapter 2

The presidential election in 2012 was heated and the campaign rhetoric polarized the nation as it had never been before. Any assertion of patriotism was rebuked as an affront to world peace and gender and race were attacked on both sides from all perspectives. To an unbiased observer it was clear that all but a small number of government officials were pursuing their own lust for power over the good of the nation, and every issue was viewed with a partisan microscope with a hope to find fault to exploit the political opponent. The arrogant incumbents sought only to appease the masses and to not offend anyone who had a vote or potential vote. These incumbents also wanted perpetual power and the placated masses gave them this for “security” defined as freedom from accountability.

Those who pointed out the failure of prior civilizations who ventured down the path of pleasing all the people all of the time for the good of all were ridiculed and were not elected to political office.

So, the presidential election of 2012 was so close that no decision was made and internal war commenced and the vocal cerebralists were all assassinated for their words, free speech was not free anymore.

The elite producers continued to rob their corporations and migrated out of the country with large portions of their company’s assets when their businesses went bankrupt. The corrupt politicians allowed the pilfering of the domestic wealth for they too were recipients of largess created but not controlled by American brilliance and toil.

The government bailed out these defunct corporations with taxpayer money and the government therefore nationalized American wealth. Those in charge now were not only arrogant thieves, they were also grossly incompetent.

In 2013 the new president took control of the national government, his opponent had disappeared and was declared a person non-grata by the masses who decided his platform was against the corruption that might upset the desires and goals of complete equality in America.

And so, America completely disbanded its unnecessary military and gave pensions to anyone who may cause a disturbance, and used the wealth of America to organize the domestic police to ensure freedom and equality.

Chapter 3

The definition of freedom was changed in the new order. Freedom no longer meant freedom of speech, assembly and religion, it meant freedom from work, from criticism and from judgment. The bible was used, selectively, and the main governmental theme was “Judge Not, Lest Ye Be Judged”.

Of course, those in power did not have to heed the new theme, they could use it against others but if anyone complained they were prosecuted for JUDGING and quickly eliminated from the new society.

Foreign governments pro and con to America were all initially astonished at this new American approach to government and many who had set the American system as a pattern for their political growth were now confused.

Hadn’t the old American system created the greatest power in world history? Hadn’t freedom as originally defined created the greatest domestic happiness of any people on earth? Hadn’t this old system with its many flaws been the best political system to correct political error and grant all inhabitants, citizens and otherwise power in the system to assert correct principles?

Yes, but even as power by the few corrupts, power of appeasement of the masses for their imagined “own good” corrupts all elements of government, for the definitions of RIGHT and WRONG are immutable.

So, fear of America by hostile foreign powers waned and military equipment that was not stockpiled by the domestic police was sold to foreign governments to raise the capitol to feed the domestic lethargy machine. And, the righteous nations of the world groaned at the loss of the only power the world had to confront despots and protect world freedom or at least assert the values of the old freedom.

Chapter 4

March 2, 2018, schools had evolved to grant the greatest equality in the world. There was only one grade you could get on a test, a “C” which meant you were average. There was no greater thing than to be “average”, and if you were less than average your teacher would have to find a way to get you to average. If you were better than average you were reprimanded and your perceived arrogance was published on the “shame sheets” that were posted in the halls of the schools and the domestic police were informed about your ambition.

Teachers who gave any grade other that a “C” were fired and sometimes exiled to unknown places. So, teachers didn’t teach and students didn’t learn and schools became dens of iniquity and depravity sanctioned by the government to please the masses, “for their own good”.

There had been no more national elections since 2012 since elections were political JUDGING and the incumbents were the self proclaimed “best of the best” and were rulers in perpetuity with little protest by the euphoric, decadent masses that lived off the accumulated wealth of America and off the sweat of the cerebralists and producers who were the only people who were not equal by law.

The treasury was kept up by these societal aberrations and by the government selling itself to foreign investors.

Morality as defined in America’s early days was a badge of inequality, and anyone who asserted morality, honesty, integrity and marriage was hastily exiled to that unknown place where the aberrant teachers went.

“Doing your own thing” was now the law for personal interaction in American society.

If you wanted to be a doctor you could take the doctor test, and you would get a “C” which qualified you to be a doctor. And, the same was true of all the former “learned professions”. You could not become a judge, a legislator or any policy maker or enforcer unless you were granted those positions by an incumbent, and the incumbents had their list of those worthy to exercise power for the “good of the people”.

So, the health care dilemma was now solved. Nobody had competent health care but the incumbents. And, all the original health care providers were sequestered to secret places for the use only by those with power. The new doctors were doctors in name only and nobody trusted them, for they were “average”. Any new doctor who exhibited competence was quickly removed to the secret places for the benefit of those most worthy of health benefits, to wit, the incumbents. COMMUPPANCE.