Christian Prepper Porn

I really don't know what else to call it.  Regularly dealing as a volunteer librarian qith older women  who only read Inspirational (Christian) Romance and books with related themes, well, I guess every literary taste has it's market niche.

But I saw this one at Barnes & Noble in Hardback last year, a large display (a full shelf in "Featured New Books"), and now it is available in Trade Paper, before the transition to mass market.

That's a decent amount of Author Kibble as Charles W. Stross would say.

It was just so shockingly BAD, both as to themes and background.  First step Hyperinflation destroys the Federal Government and it disappears (I mean, like TOTALLY, no remnant presence at all) while 200 million or so die off in the resulting "unrest" and disease.  Conveniently sparing our protagonist's most of whom have really lovingly described tricked out high end assault weapons of the AR15 sort.

What happened to all the Government Drones in Washington?  Every Member of the Presidential Line of Succession Dead (well, disappeared in embarrassment at least), not a single State Constitutional Officer or Senator or Congressman survives?

Maybe the Military dealt with them summarily before deserting en masse? (the Author's "Explanation" for the absence of the American Military is mass desertion). Self Demobilization, and there is an ancillary volume describing one individuals adventures retuning from EUCOM. Based on reading the cover teasers, enough is enough.

I understood the US military stocked enough combat rations (MREs, or whatever the new model is called) to support operations for six months.  Certainly no reason to desert en masse within days.   

Various adventures ensue, a couple of easy triumphs over really bad people  Tattoo's, Motorcycles, poor hygiene and poor tactics usually feature for the bad people, superior marksmanship will always triumph, it will (literally) be just like potting deer from a tree stand  Mandatory brief prayer over the bodies, next adventure.

Then they restore the (a) Federal government, disposing of the Gun Grabbing UN Puppets, etc.

With some really weird constitutional amendments, morality (of course), and writing a balanced budget and hard money fantasies into the new & improved document.

OK, the setup does not even survive taking a quarter step backwards;  And the resolution is equally bad.  But someone must be gobbling this stuff up, I found it difficult to read more that ten or fifteen pages at a time, and probably skipped 20-30% of the text.

Hyperinflation,  Really. (In weeks).  And general civil breakdown.  Well, possibly if "Heck of a Job" Brownie was in charge of FEMA.

It's the people who "believe" this is an accurate forecast of our potential future that scare me.

I could deal with William W, Johnstone's  USA vs  Militia  Fantasies and his snide remarks about the bumbling ineffective philanderer and his Unelected Czarina Wife and her insidious health care plan..  In the 1990's those were (and probably still are) confined to the Men's Adventure Trash Paperbacks section.  I tried to read one of the "Left Behind" novels (Once), so poor an understanding of how military systems operate, I could not pursue it.  Example, Attack Helicopters are NOT fueled by Gasoline, and do not Explode Hollywood Style. 

This stuff is presented as sort of mainstream "Literature".

Update: Another release in the "Series" seen today (10/5/2013) on the New Releases Counter.

Commenting on Krugman "The Wonk Gap"

Today's New York Times column from Paul Krugman is about "The Wonk Gap"

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/09/opinion/krugman-the-wonk-gap.html?ref=opinion&_r=0

Nothing new here really, just more about the reality gap affecting the Republican Party.

My comment was submitted about 10:15 (2315 Eastern, Sunday, 9/8/13), plenty of time to be posted and maybe get a decent number of approvals.  No, mine was finally released into the wild at 9:30AM Monday Morning, presumably along with all the others emphasizing that what the Republicans have is a problem with the facts.  Because not one of those made it into the top twenty or so of Reader Recommends.

The Gray Lady seems to be going a bit far in emphasizing balance, only one of the "NYT Recommends" made it into the top ten (And it's sinking, as relevant a personal anecdote as it may be).

Even readers and commentators are not allowed to call the Republican Lies what they are.

Plenty of mentions of George Orwell down in the weeds too, my Dad would have loved it.

And if you go down in the weeds and start reading the "all" comments, a scary number of people who still take their facts only from Fox news.

Oh, and the odd clueless one about how maybe it is appropriate to be conflicted about Syria.