The Man in the High Castle is an alternative history novel by American writer Philip K. Dick. Set in 1962, fifteen years after an alternative ending to World War II, In this novel the author begs the question “what if the German’s and the Japanese had won WWII, what kind of America would we have? The Man in the Trump Tower is a current work in progress authored by a narcissistic, careless but very carful man. It is a story about what might America look like when it elects its first Fascist president. How different will our national persona become the ignorant inherit the government reigns of America. In the book The Man in the High Tower we are able to reflect on how we escaped a very different future, one which held great persecution, bigotry and madness. The Man in the Trump Tower demonstrates how America will look if we don’t stop persecution, bigotry and madness.
The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street and episode of the Twilight Zone, suggests space aliens could be living as family in the neighborhood who can appear human, suddenly dire situations happen and the search is on within this once docile neighborhood as to who should be trusted and who should be feared. In this current season of political warfare, we are witnessing the same kind of fearful conclusions that all unnecessary bad things are happening in the neighborhood of America because some of us are monsters. The neighborhood watch person in the newest adaptation of the Monsters Are Due on Pennsylvania Avenue is Ted Cruz. He has aroused the superstitious nature of his neighbors and has reminded them that difference is NOT good. As in the Twilight Zone episode when calamity happens neighborly love is never used to find solution, instead neighbor is pitted against neighbor. If America is NOT working it must be the Gays, wait, its the Mexicans, no it must be the loose women, perhaps it is the people of color, no it must be the non Evangelical Christian. In the Twilight Zone episode while chaos is reigning supreme on Maple Street we fade to space aliens sitting inside their spaceship, hooting and hollering saying look at these crazy people too afraid of one another to find a solution that will aid one another. In the current episode of Monsters Are Due on Pennsylvania Avenue we watch ted Cruz and his PACS wonder what kind of lies, fabrications, and fault can we provide for a very confused and angry Republican electorate?
The scary thing about reality is the part where fiction begins to take on a life as fact and we believe in all the wrong stuff!
