New Beginning
“What if this new government ends up being just as draconian as the last one?” Rebecca asked.
“Then we overthrow that one, and keep overthrowing them until we get one that serves the people, not itself.” her father replied.
Rebecca watched as her father worked on the shoe he was mending. His hands moved along the shoes surface trying to find the damage. Years ago he had been imprisoned by the government and blinded by it’s interrogators for inciting civil disobedience against them.
“Besides I know people in the new government, they won’t let us down.” he added.
“I hope so.”
Everyone was waiting.
Joanne Fisher
Word count: 103 + prompt
This was written with the prompt draconian provided by Sammi Cox’s Weekend Writing Prompt #132.
I trashed the previous post. It was about how Anne in the pirate stories I’ve written became the captain of her ship, but apparently it was “erotic pirate fiction” though it wasn’t intended to be. I may have a think about it and rewrite it one day. Besides no one was reading it…
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Hope he’s right – have my doubts, though! I’m of the school of thought that power corrupts.
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I tend to be an optimist, despite everything that’s happened in the last few years…
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Definitely a pessimist here, lol!
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We all live in hope. Have your read George Orwell’s 1984, it talks about governments and the cycle of uprisings and leadership. It is fascinating.
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Yes I have. I read when I was around 19 years old. It profoundly changed the way I looked at the world.
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Read Sinclair Lewis’ It Can’t Happen Here. It’s like a prequel to 1984…
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I should read it. I do know a quote of his (included in an R.E.M. album of all places): “When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.”
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I’ve come to think that quote was strangely prescient.
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Sinclair Lewis was extraordinarily insightful…
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It does that.
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Congrats on reaching another milestone. Shame you had to ditch a post but… you know. Good take on draconian
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I’m sure I can do a better version one day of the ditched post. This one works better with the prompt anyway.
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Thanks.
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I think my blog is dead.
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