Life During Wartime

Been listening to Talking Heads. About to start re-reading Hadji Murad. This is, properly speaking, a brain attack.

The whole thing took less than a month. They’d gotten to the truckers first, paralyzed the flow of food and trade,. Corporate pressure on the unions, inside agitation. Most of the churches were already preaching against the incumbent administration. Apparently, eleven years of progressive rule was too much to stomach. The current president had won by a margin, and they took it as justification for rebellion. The militias activated, and sympathetic cells in the military picked up on that end.

The attackes started in the terrorist vein– bombings, shutting down loyalist media hubs, murdering leftist spokesmen. After the very public execution of Senator Joseph Harris (D, GA), they mobilized and got down to straight military action. They called themselves the New American Union, and claimed divine right. Claimed crusade against the Anti-Christ in the White House. Entire military bases went turncoat– sick of the budget cuts and secular rhetoric coming out of D.C. Sick of the “emboldened faggots” in their ranks. Five-hundred openly gay soldiers died in the week of conflict between loyalist and N.E.U.-Patriot factions. Blatant sacrifices by “God’s soldiers” to bring His hand down upon the “Satanist opposition to their holy and just revolution”. The armed forces still loyal to Washington were too engaged in fighting the N.E.U. cells in their own ranks to keep a clamp down on the swelling citizen militias; militias already heavily armed and organized. Sympathetic citizens joined them by the hour.