It has been nearly two weeks since senator Ted Cruz (nutjob-TX) announced his candidacy for the highest office in the nation. And while I don't believe for one moment that he has a snowball's chance in hell, we must note that he is only one of several dozen potential candidates who would love nothing more than to turn the United States into a totalitarian theocracy.
Many in America breathed a sigh of relief in 2008 when Barack Obama won the Presidency, and again in 2012 when he was re-elected. But we do a grave disservice to our country if we assume that the danger is past.
Some months back, I read the novel Christian Nation by Frederic C. Rich, which describes the path America might have taken had John McCain won in 2008. I was so moved by this book that I wrote a review over on everything2.com.
Fans of alternate history speculative fiction take it as a given that the genre often relies on unlikely circumstances to tell a story--as in, "what if Native Americans had invented gunpowder?" or "what if the Christ had not been executed?". There is some comfort in such alternate histories, since our real history is already written: the Axis powers did not develop the atomic bomb, the Confederacy did not win the war, and Napoleon III did not conquer Mexico. Such alternate histories rely on issues that have been settled. The past is past.
Christian Nation should chill you to the bones because, unlike most alt-history fiction, it deals with an ongoing situation in our nation. I hope that you will check this book out, and then pass it on to another reader.
Our history is not yet written, and I hope that it never comes down to this, but remember:
"IT CAN HAPPEN HERE"