Well good day to you all…… beautiful almost fall weather
here in North Texas. I will be starting
another story today and once you start reading you will realize I want to
finish this one fast. There is somewhat of a deadline to meet because of certain
events.
First though the better half and I were watching the last
debate the other night and she shocked me. She and I (as you know) are vehemently
against both candidates yet we still watch hoping beyond hope that one of them
will make us feel better about what might happen after they are sworn in and
based on the last debate, to no avail. My better half has been trying, really
trying, to at least accept Ms. Clinton and yet she despises her. I mean, real I
do not like that woman feeling. And Mr. Trump is just going nowhere in both of
our minds.
Everyone already knows my thoughts and I won’t go into hers,
suffice to say we are very wary of the future. And yet… about thirty minutes
after the debate ended my wife says to me: I think it is about time I took a
class on guns and got a license to carry. This is a drop jaw to floor moment.
My wife has never wanted a gun, never liked them, and has been against us
having one for decades. She fears them. And now after viewing the third debate
there is this sudden about face. To me
that says much. This doesn’t help any good feelings about the future
possibilities.
Anyway, on to the story. A couple weeks ago I had an idea
for another story and yet after the last debate and this past week this idea
has consumed me. I haven’t done any prep like I always do for my blog stories.
I will write in the moment. I do have the ones I work on a bit more, but trying
to get those published. The story today is just this idea and it is based on
recent events. And this would normally fall under one of my paranoid blog posts
instead I decided to turn it into a short story. You will recognize immediately
where the idea for this story came about and why I want to finish it fast. At
some point, though someone needs to carry this craziness to its illogical
paranoid conclusion before it might actually happen. So here comes the high
stress paranoid story… and remember it is fiction and I hope it stays that way. Let us see how far I get today before I need
to perform other chores.
No working title right now
Four days before the election another set of emails were
released showing much more disdain for the opposition candidate and distrust.
That was the first headline. No shock emerged from this headline.
Later in the day more information came forth that created
more talk of the election being rigged. Some ambiguous statements in a few of
the emails, yet for the people who believed all the hype about a rigged
election; It read like a bonfire of information.
The candidate’s surrogates for the past two weeks worked
furiously to keep this idea in the press. Many people were caught up in the
frenzy and hype. Much chatter amongst the followers of the candidate and they
blogged, tweeted, added posts to news stories at every chance. And for some
reason many governors, current officials in Washington even the military did
not give this much credence. After all everyone said the candidate was whining,
a sore loser so these comments appeared as hot noise.
The surrogates kept at it day and night, encouraging more and
more the ardent followers to prepare. The accusations flew and the followers
digested this idea like a dying man drinking water in the desert. Consumption
did not describe how they soaked in this crazy idea. The actual thought this was
true ran through the veins turning rational people into fear crazed maniacs.
They simmered for the first week after the last debate. The second week they
boiled and now with four days to go they obtained proof it was the end of the
world.
No one really knew where the plans and preparation
developed, or to many they did not know. Yet the surrogates were ready. And was it planned all the time or did it
happen because of circumstances? We will never know.
At first the chatter talked of going to the inner cities,
watching polls, and more normal political activity of getting out their voters.
Four days before the election though, posts wrote what type of supplies might
be needed to spend all day in the inner cities watching polls, what to watch
for, how to approach the regular poll watchers with their suspicions, who to
contact in the campaign when they saw irregularities because to the inner campaign
and surrogates’ fraud was a reality. And they wanted to make sure they caught
it. There would be no questions by the general public once they started proving
how rigged the vote.
And unbeknownst to many in the government certain elements
of the military and homeland security supported and wanted a new leader. One
they could relate and respect. Their preparations coincided with the campaign.
They were instrumental in contacting certain militia groups around the country
and preparing them where needed. Communication lines of normal military and
state national guards were being severed. Trusted units, and there were a few,
quietly heard instructions about what they need to do once the riots start on
or after election day. The officials worked to create statements to use once
the riots started. Yes, once the riots started. They prepared well. They too, like
the supporters of the candidate yet for different reasons, tired of the usual
Government inaction and incompetency. People needed leadership and they knew their
candidate. Their time had come and their excitement hid from themselves the
truth of what they wanted.
Two days before the election a quiet mobilization began. The
innocent and unfortunately misled followers of the candidates prepared to vote
early then head to certain polling areas. Somehow they received specific
instructions on where to go. They knew exactly what was expected of them and as
good patriots they went, not knowing the true end result.
The candidate wanted to win. The candidate felt winning
solved the problems and the campaign’s success begins the change everyone
wanted. The military and bureaucratic leadership already in government did not
feel the same optimism. They knew the truth yet they knew they needed to take
charge and save the country. If the early exit polling did not show a fighting
chance to win, mobilization begins. Plans called for the poll watchers, the
average citizens to start the protests. The press needed to think a groundswell
of support arose, not a top down action. This supported the notion that
military and national guard intervention protected the people. Little did the
press know only certain parts of the military would intervene. And then there
were the meth fueled paramilitary individuals, their whereabouts known and
their instructions given. This creates scapegoat for the press, yet tools of
the established leadership. “Right wing nuts” so to speak whose actions set up
a series of steps in the first few days where some may be sacrificed and some
hidden immediately for use later if needed. Not all of them were meth addicts,
but enough to help the cause. Their madness tools, only tools in the eyes of
the leadership. They were the front-line soldier that in any war becomes the
first casualties.
Election Day:
Surprisingly a large turnout arose. The hatred of each
candidates’ supporters of the other candidate fueled a much larger turnout than
expected. Third party candidates received a larger turnout also. This created
long lines even early in the morning. The established leadership hesitated
early on since they did not want to upset the results if their candidate
actually did start winning. Then knew this would backfire on them. They felt confident their candidate would
not, yet now they wanted to make sure. Luckily for them, the normal followers
of their candidate did get up early, hours before the polls opened becoming
first in line. They voted and moved quickly to their assigned areas.
This immediately created friction between these unauthorized
poll watchers, the people in line and the authorized polling officials. People
knew right away this wasn’t going to be good in some areas. A couple of Governors immediately called
their State National Guard into play. Not knowing the specifics well of
mobilizing them, they did not realize the groups they wanted to call up, were
not receiving the message.
The established leadership knew these attempts failed and
prepared their alternate call ups so the Governors would not get suspicious if
no one showed up. Of course, any paramilitary groups arrived first. They hoped
this would cause the first riots. They communicated with these groups where to
go and to wait for further instruction.
Lines grew all over the country. This information caused
some more hesitation in immediate action by the established leadership. If large
crowds of the general public perceived some irregularities, all this may
backfire. They knew many of their candidate’s followers were not going to be
involved and could fall back and not remove themselves from the situation. This
might create a much larger fight and give time for the regular National Guard
units to get involved. Their side would be outnumbered quickly if this
happened. They needed surprise and swift action so they could establish martial
law and then assign these troops to “protect everyone” with curfews, restricted
movement, and communication links of the media and public cut. They needed all information
coming from them right away. Any delay and people might start choosing and
merging sides. This definitely did not help.
Around noon they started receiving the information they
wanted and their candidate jumped on social media and began his firestorm of
comments about the election being rigged. Exit polling was showing the other
candidate coming out ahead not by sizeable margins, yet by enough that the
media began calling the election. This became the first huge mistake.
All over the country the unauthorized poll watchers began
seeing all sorts of irregularities. There were none. Their anger of hearing the
election rigged comments called them to action. They immediately confronted
people in line about voting. Fights broke out on the streets. It quickly turned
to fire fights. The unauthorized poll watchers had guns on the supply list and
they didn’t hesitate to use them. Riots broke out as people watched their
friends shot. The regular poll watchers tried to call in local authorities, yet
certain lines of communication jammed quickly. The system overloaded fast. Partly
because of the actual problems in the cities and partly because the preparation
plans already disabled some areas.
The established leaders knew the potential volatile areas.
The paramilitary groups arrived there first. Hyped up on a twisted motivation,
meth, ignorance, and easily misled they jumped into the inner-city riots and
began shooting up any and every one. Even good followers of their candidate
were shot in the melee. This worked. The press now being fed information from
DC reported specific yet unknowing misinformation so even more riots broke out
in the inner cities and now spreading to the suburbs. Other members of the
military, national law enforcement etc not involved followed suit as expected.
Their orders seemed rational due to the fast rising violence all over the
country.
National guard units were ordered up all over the country.
Martial law was being announced by certain leaders so others did not question.
One tiny problem, the sitting President seemed to disappear. Per released
reports the government moved him to an unspecified location for his protection.
And he tried greatly to communicate with leaders he trusted,
he received instructions to wait till the day settled down. He knew the danger,
yet felt hopeless surrounded by the very people paid to protect him, now his
prison guards.
The candidate in question spoke to the nation. Not elected,
no results announced, yet under instruction from the established leadership, it
became their candidate who spoke first to the nation. The candidate’s
appearance first created the impression the established leaders wanted. Their
candidate’s image appearing as the person in charge, the leader now, and where
information about the country originates. They cut the media off, established
control of communication and everyone followed suit. The day went off to their
best of dreams.
The day after the election:
Fighting raged all throughout the country, not since the
Civil War had Americans fought amongst themselves with this much anger and
vigor. Unfortunately, there were too many sides fighting not against the
establishment that took charge or their candidate. Too many sides developed.
Fighting amongst various groups continued. Outside of the established leadership,
no one had the ability to coordinate and work with different groups to put
together yesterday’s events. Groups did
not trust each other, yet the groups that fought each other were the ones
needing to communicate.
The plan worked of the country dividing quickly so many
people just wanted stability and followed the orders of the National Guard and
leadership on TV all the while not knowing they were being controlled.
Democracy fell within the week, fighting raged on for months, and in January at
the normally scheduled date at noon, the candidate who called the election
rigged was sworn in. No one ever knew the final vote tally.
Overall it took about 6 months for normal day to day living
to come back into play for the majority of the country. There were pockets
still holed up; some in the inner cities where the law knew they would have to
go in building to building to root it out; some in distant rural areas and a
bit of irony, the bunkers the paramilitary people had built up in the play war
games became the home of some the more philosophical dissidents who cried about
and fought against the demise of the Republic; others fled the country hoping
to build up enough support to go back and retake the government. Unfortunately,
none of these groups ever coordinated, nor even if they did, it probably wasn’t
enough to mount a real fight.
The majority of the country eventually went back to work,
grateful the madness dissipated, and supported the new government because they
were told the USA had survived an upheaval against the Constitution and the new
leader was the greatest protector of the rights of the people anyone would ever
know.
True standards of living diminished for many Americans, the
rich got richer, or most of them, a few had fought and for some reason their
businesses and wealth quickly disappeared, then they did. Overall though most
people were told and believed the lies now being fed through the new media outlets
that managed to “survive” the upheaval and everyone should be grateful that
freedom of the press continued, freedom of speech and all the rights guaranteed
still existed. Yet no one seemed to notice that there was no dissidence to
counter argument to the new leader and new Congress reelected every two and
four years. They were too busy trying to feed their families and keep their
jobs. They took what pay they received and well didn’t complain about it. You
never knew when your job might be shipped overseas by the Wall Street
consortium of corporations, yet again, the ones that survived the
consolidations kept getting richer.
There just wasn’t any opposition party of any consequence. A
few crazy fringe parties marginally existed and campaigned, yet no matter how
much support they might start to achieve come election day they were beat in
landslides. So, the people continued to speak and support the current
government day after day, year after year, and now decade after decade. The Candidate had won, and the new party grew.
At least a small group of people were true believers the USA was now the greatest
country it had ever been. Everyone else grew up taught that.
And if you ever want another idea, I still have my 2012 fictitious
party platform you can always read, just in case you want to make real change.
