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“A generation which ignores history has no past and no future.” – Robert A. Heinlein

People’s Republic by Kurt A. Schlichter

A Nightmare in the Land of the Extremely Woke – 4.5 stars

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Divorces can be messy and leave a lot of animosity in their wake.

When that divorce is the dissolution of a country, the resulting wounds can be even deeper and leave more permanent injuries.

The divide between the woke of the Blue states and the traditional values found in the US Constitution embraced by the Red states has widened to the point that the total sum of the United States of America can no longer unite even over the necessary business of governing the whole.

It’s been several years since the Split with the Red States retaining the name United States of America, and the Blues becoming The People’s Republic of North America. The borders are sealed shut with no commerce or travel occurring between the two countries. Yet there are those who have been trapped on the wrong side of the border who want to return to the sanity of the USA.

Kelly Turnbull is a former US Army officer who currently makes his living fetching those people from behind the enemy lines of the People’s Republic and delivering them to their loved ones in the USA for a price. Usually a quite hefty price, sometimes with a bit of covert ops work on the side.

Turnbull finds himself employed to return the daughter of a very wealthy and very influential man, George Ryan, Sr., from the ultrawoke Blueness of southern California. Accompanying him on the mission is his client’s son, George Junior, hoping to convince his sister to come along peacefully back home to Texas and the USA.

There is a secondary part of the mission; Turnbull is directed to contact an undercover source and bring back a hard drive containing information about the corruption and true conditions of the people living under the elite rulers of the People’s Republic.

The adventure into California for the retrieval of the wayward daughter and the clandestine data allows George, Jr. (and the reader) to see and experience for himself what the progressive paradise People’s Republic is really all about.

From the infiltration of the guarded border to experiencing the joys of responsible coffee the pair navigate the insanity that the former Golden State has now become. Just surviving the stormtroopers that make up the People’s Security Force (PSF) made up of thugs and bullies to the federal ID cards that include a Privilege Level based on various factors such as income level and job. Some people are just naturally better than others, don’t you know.

For the inhabitants of the People’s Republic, life is a series of challenges due to the mismanagement of the woke. Runaway inflation, food rationing, fuel shortages, and the effects of an exaggerated form of affirmative action that rewards all positions both in government and business depending on how woke, progressive, and diverse the candidate is. The entrepreneurs, technical experts, skilled tradesmen, and even farmers got out while the getting was good. Leaving only the inept, but sufficiently woke, in charge of the asylum.

The People’s Republic is what happens when you let movie stars and college professors pick the government. – Kelly Turnbull

The Red states remaining in the USA have changed as well. The new capital is in Dallas, welfare and other government handouts have been eliminated, and citizenship is no longer automatic for those born within its borders. Military service is the only way to gain voting rights and citizenship with no exceptions granted.

Take a close look at the illustration on the cover showing the newly redrawn borders. Which side of the lines would you find yourself behind? What would your life be like if you found yourself on the wrong side?

The author uses exaggeration for affect to emphasize the conditions on both sides of the borders to highlight and contrast the directions in which the current trends and demands of the woke might attempt to take the country. Their numbers are relatively few, but their members are loud and tend to get the attention of the media and those seeking votes.

Just as 1984 was a wake up call at its time of publication, this book should also be read as a warning to the non-woke of the country to be aware of where the widening split of partisanship and a continuing us-versus-them stance could drag the country as a whole.

Recommended.

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