Steve’s shorts: Passing the Divisive Torch…
Passing the Divisive Torch
Copyright 2020, Steven M. Moore
“My daughter, my princess, and your next president!”
The old man stepped aside from the lectern and offered the mike to the much younger woman, dressed in a famous designer’s gown, not from one of her own brands.
“You have been blessed to have my father’s steady hand at the tiller of the ship of state,” she began. “I will continue his work to make America great again!” There were cheers and thousands of nodding red hats in the crowd.
One Secret Service agent in that crowd stood by his partner, a woman. He never stopped surveilling that mass of humanity. There were always death threats against the old president and his daughter now, and only two weeks earlier, a mob of his white supremacist supporters had lynched a black man.
“You know, Lara, I’m sick of this bullshit. I’m not a fascist nor a racist. I’m resigning tomorrow. My own daughter has received death threats.”
The black woman studied him. “There are a lot of young people ready to revolt, millennials and gen-Z’ers mostly. I can’t blame them. My own son is an activist too. But I need my job.”
“I’m going to be a PI,” her partner said. “Business is booming for them. Attorneys are busy defending people from one side or the other—probably a lost cause for his enemies—and they need people to gather evidence. I’ll be okay with my pension and all that, especially mentally.”
“I’ll envy you. Protecting this SOB and his Barbie-doll spawn is a pain in the butt. Everybody hates them, except those in his fascist inner circle who pucker up and kiss his derriere. How did we come to this?”
“Nothing lasts forever, not even America.”
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