2025

“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used to create them.”

~ Albert Einstein ~

PROLOG

The cancer that formed simultaneously to the birth of the nation known as the United States of America in 1778 grew unnoticed until symptoms became apparent and the disease could no longer be ignored just prior to 1860 and led to the Civil War. Neither of the two political parties were willing to publicly acknowledge the disease and it remained a close-hold secret among politicians, while festering and growing, ignored and denied among the populace until after World War II (the last time the country, left and right, black and white, came together in a common cause). The 1950’s identified the great divide among American citizens, propagated by the toxic politics of the two political parties as racism, religious evangelism, unnecessary (lost) wars, and a deadly capitalistic nature dominated American society; but little to no action was taken to combat the disease—au contraire.

The election of the first black American president in 2008 and his reelection in 2012 created an uneasy sense of stability, humanity, common sense, and world-wide trust in the American experiment among a majority of Americans; but, beneath the surface the cancerous hate, racism, and ultra-right politics festered and grew until the 2016 election when the disease could no longer be denied or hidden. Pustules of this disease spread across the body America and burst in an ugly display of rot in the Southern Bible Belt and Republican held states scattered across the country.

America lay, apparently dying, for four years. The injection of normality, of humanity, came in 2020, but it was too late. The United States of America, the great democratically ordained leader of the world, finally died with the reelection of the president who nearly destroyed the country in his first term that began in 2016 and, after a four year hiatus in which the democratic party failed to rally the country and internally collapsed, repeated his con on the American people and re-took the White House in 2024.

In a nearly perfect replication of Adolph Hitler’s putsch in 1930’s Germany, the president and his closest followers and associates, violently removed every cabinet chief, senator, and congressperson that had stood against him in an insurrection, similar to that which occurred at the United States Capitol on 6 January, 2021. That insurrection was played down, the U.S. Department of Justice was unable to tag or bring any of the planners and instigators to justice and the cancer, birthed along with the nation in 1778, became malignant, incurable, and fatal to the democratic/capitalist experiment.

Political affiliation no longer existed; one was either for or against him. During the insurrection, those against were dealt with immediately and harshly. The democratic leaders of the Senate and House of Representatives were assassinated, shot in cold blood. Other democratic and anti-president republican lawmaker’s were forced naked into the mob that surrounded the Capitol… only a handful survived the beatings. What was considered absolutely beyond the realm of belief in the United States happened!

The next day, while the country and the world reeled in disarray and disbelief, the opposing leaders in state capitols experienced the same fate. State capitols were attacked by mobs, the democratic and anti-president governors and lawmakers were assassinated, their places taken by pro presidential men and women.

Martial law was implemented, followed by a week of protests all across the country and these were dealt with aggressively and violently. Thousands of Americans died at the hands of the US military and police following orders to stop the protests by dispersing the protestors by any means necessary.

The president announced to the world that interference from any country, friend or foe, would be met with the strongest military response imaginable, and the world governments remained silent.

Within six months, the United States of American became an autocratic theocracy, known simply as America. The Senate and House of Representatives morphed into a single body that resembled those of Russia, China, North Korea, and other autocracies composed of mere “yes” men and women to the supreme leader’s whims and fancies.

White supremacists, “Christofascists”, and Qanon conspiracy theory fanatics felt obligated and free to hunt down the sources of their anger and bias. Liberal “thinkers” and leaders, scientists who warned of climate change, physicians who spoke against the president’s actions during the Covid 19 pandemic of 2020-2022, people of color and immigrants were beaten, illegally jailed, or simply murdered by angry groups on a daily basis across the country.

There was no cure, no way to return to normalcy—the once touted American Way of Life. The two-party political system became one. The country, led by a demented and criminal president, became an autocracy with strong theological influences. The country was divided as never before and the new regime ruled with an iron fist reminiscent of the of USSR, Chinese, and German autocracies of the twentieth century.

But, hope remained eternal among a minority of the populace. Among these were top scientists and billionaire techies that knew how to deal with the problem. It became merely a matter of financing and planning; a race against the new world order and climate change.

2025 is the story of alternative creative thinking that leads to the last, best hope for saving the world!