Everyone had thought that science and logic and empathy and rational thought had finally triumphed over faith-based belief, blind patriotism, righteousness, and self-centeredness. It hadn't. The others were not converted, they were simply seething, steeping in their own closed-minded juices and plotting their return to power. They also were planning how they could permanently hold that power.
Secret militias formed in churches, basements, compounds, bunkers. Plots were hatched in those places as well as in marbled halls of justice, well-appointed DC offices, and in the homes of the rich and formerly powerful. God, Country and Freedom were mentioned over and over as these people armed themselves and planned to kill any fellow countryperson who didn't share their beliefs.
In shock and disbelief, the scientific, logical, empathetic and rational were plowed down by the combined force of inarguable faith and bullets, bullets, bullets.
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