My next fictional book precis

There’s a pack of cunts in the US who’ve managed to get themselves into power by leaning hard on a base that runs more on grievance than thought. They’re not interested in governing for anyone else. The aim is simple: run the place in their own interests, strip away the bits of law and democracy that get in the way, and make it stick. The ruling clique would like to run the place solely in their own interests, like dictators, untroubled by law and democracy.

From there, they find common cause with the Russian dictatorship. Not a formal alliance, more a quiet arrangement between two systems heading in the same direction. Each leaves the other alone internally, each helps where it suits, and both keep the public story just plausible enough. The shared line is that the real fight is against China (yet another dictatorship but one that is already in complete control of its domain and therefore less aligned with the others), and against liberal democracy itself.

Obvs, initially they have to be surreptitious about this partnership but as time goes on, they can be more open about it, as the ability of their countries to challenge their plans is systematically weakened. AI, bless its little heart, gives them a real boost as people learn not to trust anything they see or hear.

The rest of us, we’ll be subservient to this mob after they carve up the globe into spheres of influence.

Back to the good old days before the enlightenment. Which makes sense really – we cant afford to keep consuming all these resources and emitting all these greenhouse gases – so we need to return to those glorious days before we had the means.

If I was to flog this precis to a publisher I would tag it as “1984 meets Animal Farm”, and maybe call it “Back to the Past” or “Pigs Can Fly”.

Actually I have published an actual book but not on this subject. I call it fiction. You’d call it non-fiction.

It’s really an opinion piece focused on my country of origin. There’s a lot of forward looking prognostics in there because I’m so good at predicting the future …