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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

Heinlein wrote of a dictatorship rising in the US about now.

The B-plot of Orsen Scott Card's "Ender's Game" was Ender's older brother and sister gaming the two party system via the internet and posting their way into the Presidency. If Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton had been siblings, it would have been a near perfect reflection of real life.