After previously using his powers of creativity to paint a world where people are more tolerant of a person’s lifelong campaign to shun homosexuals, Ender’s Game author Orson Scott Card has spun another fantastical, mind-bending yarn: that of a very near-future America where Obama is a Hitler-like dictator, remaining in power indefinitely with the help of his army of “urban gangs.” It’s a scenario that Card himself dubs “just a silly thought experiment,” like the sort of playful, what-if exercise that has long captured the imagination of producers trying desperately to pretend that someone else besides Orson Scott Card is responsible for the movie they’re trying to sell, because good lord. It's also every bit as convincing.
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