It’s 7:55pm, and a cold sweat drips down your neck.
You hold your wife, trying to tell her it’ll be okay.
But your voice breaks as the fear tightens your throat.
Outside you can hear the mob moving closer...
Chanting something you can’t quite make out.
You pray they don’t turn down your street.
On the TV, scenes of chaos are unfolding...
In Chicago, a mall is overrun by a mob.
In Philadelphia, a man is ripped from his car. Kicked and beaten.
In Detroit, crowds cheer fires that blaze among thousands of empty row homes.
You thought the riots of 2020 were bad.
But, you’ve never seen anything like this. Not in America.
On the TV screen, a politician speaks from the capitol building:
“Finally, we’ve done what needed to be done. This is a new America. A new beginning. The chance to start over.”
Next they cut to a large woman.
Behind her looters are trashing a Walmart.
She’s yelling at the reporter:
“This is what you get!!”
The camera pans over to a young couple with bright, spiky hair.
They’re burning the flag while the crowd around them chants...
“U.S.A... U.S.A... U.S.A”
No.
There’s something different about it?
Somethings not quite right.
Then it hits you…
They’re chanting “U.S.S.A”
You sit there in shock.
Your wife asks you what’s going on?
Why is this happening? What do we do?
You’re speechless. Stunned into silence.
You never thought it would come to this.
Especially not this quickly.
Back on the news they’re interviewing a Harvard professor of sociology.
He’s in a tweed blazer, horn rimmed glasses and grinning from ear to ear.
He’s talking about the need for re-education camps…
For the good of the nation he says.
To protect ourselves from dangerous ideologies.
To “deprogram” the millions of Americans who voted for him.
None of this makes any sense.
Then, the news anchor returns, and the TV reads: “White House On The Dawn of The U.S.S.A”
On the screen, the President appears.
After what seems like an eternity, he starts to speak.
Stumbling over his words...
“America was broken. It has been for years. Today marks the birth of a new nation. A new era. An era of without millionaires or billionaires... without social divides... with universal income and free healthcare and free college for all.
It hits you like a bullet to the gut.
It wasn’t all talk.
They did it.
They actually did it.
And now, you know, they’re coming for you and your loved ones…