![]() ![]() Written by Octavia E Butler, it was published in 1998, two decades before the inauguration of the 45th President of the United States. You might think he sounds familiar – but the character in question is Texas Senator Andrew Steele Jarret, the fictional presidential candidate who storms to victory in a dystopian science-fiction novel titled Parable of the Talents. The story of cannibalism that came true The fiction that predicted space travel ![]() How much of this rhetoric he actually believes and how much he spouts “just because he knows the value of dividing in order to conquer and to rule” is at once debatable, and increasingly beside the point, as he strives to return the country to a “simpler” bygone era that never actually existed. ![]() He accuses, without grounds, whole groups of people of being rapists and drug dealers. ![]() When his supporters form mobs and burn people to death, he condemns their violence “in such mild language that his people are free to hear what they want to hear”. According to his opponent, he’s a demagogue a rabble-rouser a hypocrite. It’s campaign season in the US, and a charismatic dark horse is running with the slogan ‘make America great again’. ![]()
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