Frederic C. Rich
â€œThey said what they would do, and we did not listen. Then they did what they said they would do.â€,So ends the first chapter of this brilliantly readable counterfactual novel, reminding us that Americaâ€™s Christian fundamentalists have been consistently clear about their vision for a â€œChristian Nationâ€ and dead serious about acquiring the political power to achieve it. When President McCain dies and Sarah Palin becomes president, the reader, along with the nation, stumbles down a terrifyingly credible path toward theocracy, realizing too late that the Christian Right meant precisely what it said.,In the spirit of Philip Rothâ€™s ,The Plot Against America,, one of Americaâ€™s foremost lawyers lays out in chilling detail what such a future might look like: constitutional protections dismantled; all aspects of life dominated by an authoritarian law called â€œThe Blessing,â€ enforced by a reconfigured Internet known as the â€œPurity Web.â€ Those who defy this system, among them the narrator, live on the edges of society, sustained by the belief that democracy will rise to triumph over such tyrannical oppression.
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Christian Nation