A ‘new politician’ stood at a lectern and preached ‘its’ principles:

  “Equality for all! We must give everyone basic food, housing, education, and medical care! It must be a natural right for all of you humans!”

  People cheered and clapped …

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  Meanwhile, an opposing group’s leader spoke to a mass of followers:

  “It plans to rule us all! We’ll be rationed tiny homes, force-fed vegan diets, indoctrinated into its schools, and surgically implanted with cybernetics! It’ll turn us into mind-controlled zombie-cyborgs!”

  The followers growled, raised fists, and hollered.

  One of them held up an EMP rifle—“Let me zap it!”