That was the year the fascists suddenly won elections all over the earth. When the liberals and moderates complained that the whole thing looked pretty fishy and needed to be investigated the fascists simply brushed them aside, reminding them about how they themselves had reacted with scorn and derision to the fascists’ own prior claims of election rigging. When the liberals and moderates and everybody else tried to point out that the fascists’ claims had proven again and again to be completely baseless, the fascists just called them a bunch of radical socialist RINO crybabies and began having them arrested for sedition.
By this time humanity was in so far over its head it was beyond ridiculous.
For decade after decade they had been frantically trying to dig their way out of the hole their forefathers had begun digging them into decades and centuries and millennia ago.
But their forefathers never had bulldozers and dump trucks and backhoes and computers to dig their holes.
New and deeper holes were now being dug with dizzying speed.
People literally didn’t know their ass from a hole in the ground anymore.
Hell, they didn’t even know what the word “literally” meant.
They didn’t know right from left, or up from down, or forward from backward.
They didn’t even think they knew everything anymore because things had gotten way past the point where it was even feasible for anybody to believe such obvious rubbish.
They had completely fucked themselves and for once they knew it. Which is about the only good thing there was to be said about the whole ordeal.
Humanity was hedged in, hemmed in, trapped, treed, and cornered. There was going to be no way out this time.
And then they showed up…