Lots of plots over the last couple of decades have been centered on alternate universe realities — the “What If. . .?” storylines.
In “The Man in the High Castle,” Hitler and the Nazis win WW II and we discover what it would have been like to live in that reality. In “The Watchmen,” when a superhuman changes the balance of world power, we learn what it would have been like if, among other things –– the US handily wins in Vietnam, Nixon continues on as president (and gets congress to reverse presidential term limits) and is finally replaced by Robert Redford.
There are a lot of these scenarios which have been conjured up for our entertainment, but the last four years have been a cold-water-in-the-face version of this game of “What if . . .?”
Had anyone wondered what the US would be like without a democratically elected representative government, but with a monarch, king, or dictator — we now have our answer. Granted, the confusion may have arisen as a failed reality show host (who spent his life out-flim-flamming even P.T. Barnum) was elected to the most powerful job in the free world, but this is real life, not a What-If experiment. Saying the government is broken and then going out and breaking it to prove your point is not a winning strategy — it is sheer and utter chaos, and we have all suffered the consequences.
So VOTE Biden-Harris, vote like your very life depends on it — because it does. And remember, the other part of the aphorism with which I opened, “Be careful what you wish for . . . for you may surely GET IT!”
