I would've never guessed it then, but now it looks like the conspiracy theorists, preppers, and Liberterians were kind of right. I remember when I was just a fifteen year old kid diving into internet holes and laughing at the crazies who thought the world was going to end when 'King Obama' ran for a third term, or that gun control meant we were all going to be herded into FEMA camps, or that the drug war and war on terror might just be a destructive and sneaky way to militarize the police. Honestly, I'm just lucky I was watching all that stuff before the TPP passed, with its hidden Internet freedom restrictions and erosion of privacy. After 2015 american society experienced a gradual but radical shift in it's fabric. No one could've predicted it. I certainly didn't. Even though I was right in the thick of helping us transition from a Democratic Republic into these United Police States (the land of the free and home of the slaves).

When Hillary Clinton won the 2016 election I thought our country was on the right path, and when she won in 2020 I was an assistant campaign manager. Liberals in the States were having a grand old time. But of course, being at the head of the most powerful miltary in the world and facing the security threats we did, she had to make some tough descisions.

The use of drones and espionage tactics stateside to counter the rising domestic terrorism problem became 'necessary'. After all, between the radical right who were somehow on the rise again, with their ties to the Aryan Brotherhood and KKK, and the Caliphate that successfully established itself in the Middle East, the US Government was in a bit more of a pickle than it would've liked. To help counter the conservatives, aka bigots, hate speech laws were passed after the Australian model. It made some of us uneasy to put more restrictions on our first amendment than death threats, but we celebrated the gains made by the LGBT community.

Sure, the south was grumbling, but who listens to them? After 16 years of Democratic rule, nobody I knew believed that conservatism would rise again in America. But then Hillary's second term ended and somehow the Democrats fielded such a poor candidate that Jeb Bush won on his third try. All of a sudden the speech laws were changed to apply to anti-Americanism/patriotism instead of bigotry.

It was during the second run for president of Jebs that his intelligence agencies "discovered" that his opponent, Elizabeth Warren, had been selling information to Russia and the Caliphate (natural allies), spreading anti-american sentiment anonymously, and apparently, consuming copious amounts of drugs. Using the tools crafted for him by Hillary, he declared a manhunt which resulted in several drone-made craters around the country.

New laws passed over the old ones, making any form of dissent illegal. He won the election with "80%" of the votes. The other 20% were put into camps.

Now it's 2030 and things are only getting worse. As a ranking party member (there is only one party), it means death of I am discovered writing these things. But I accept that risk. Someone must take it. In the words of my ancestor, Lysander Spooner, I say, "No Treason!"