Epire States of America

Recent Literary adventures brought me in contact with a work of (thankfully) fiction by Orson Scott Card. Card is the author of Ender's Game, Children of the Mind, and various other works. The work that I read was actually an endeavor of his into the socio-polticial spectrum and was geared toward an alternate History (in the near future past) of the USA. Card's premise was that a small group of highly determined, higly edcuated minds, were able to colaborate to create a near second civil war scenario where the line were figuartively drawn between the "red and states".

As we know the last elections showed a huge diversity in voting trends whereby the greatest metroplois in many states out weighed the rural populous by nearly 3:1 in some places. Cards ascertion, backed by actual trending information draws on the idea that major metros lean Liberal, and the rurals lean conservative.

Media manipulation and educational influencing by liberal institutions and educators are also a resounding theme as Card builds a national web of conspiracy. Irony and eerie realism can be closely seen directly and indirectly originating from current events. This read was fun, fast paced, and down right frightening if you dont trust the government. Oops - we probably just got flagged on the NSA watchlist. LOL. [Knock, knock]

Gotta go, Big Brother just showed up.