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What would Tom Clancy make of modern politics? 2017-01-23 01:11:47 Post No. 9012085
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What would Tom Clancy make of modern politics?
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Stop me if any of this sounds familiar.
So in The Bear and the Dragon, Jack Ryan, a wealthy ex stockbroker, gets re-elected in a landslide by running as a right of center outsider by presenting himself an "average guy", even though as a former CIA officer he is far from anything of the sort.
Under his presidency, the USA establishes a special close relationship with Russia, via President Ryan's friend ex-KGB friend Sergei who is effectively the most powerful man in the Russian government.
Ryan then starts a trade war with China (who are of course all a bunch of out of touch morons who don't understand how capitalism and trade works, which turns into an actual war when China decides to invade Siberia to steal Russian oil and America sides with Russia
Meanwhile at home Ryan throws out the entire US tax code, and appoints his friend who runs a massive Wall Street investment firm to write the new tax code, which eliminates all capital gains taxes and progressive bracketing in favor of a "fair" flat rate of tax for everybody. He also appoints strict-constructionalist judges to the SCOTUS with the express intention of having them overturn Roe v Wade.
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well you have thousands of what if books written about the future. One of them should relatively play out as in IRL.
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A tom clancy book brings up a totalitarian trying to overturn roe v wade?
I thought he wrote proto-call of duty patriotism action pulp, wouldn't portraying anti-abortionists as evil piss his target audience off?
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>>9012240
In this scenario Ryan is actually the good guy, first he had no choice but to be a totalitarian because he was the only government official left alive and had to rebuild the whole government on his own, then a couple books later he had a tame Congress made up of "ordinary working Americans" who would do whatever he asked.
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>>9012364
Oh, so it really is just wankery
I almost got excited that there was some level of subtlety instead of a flawless mary sue autocrat
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Clancy would be ashamed of the modern GOP.
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