let’s at least give the people a reason to root for their guy.
Imagibe the inauguration ratings.
imagine the incentives it would unleash lmao
becoming the most hated freak in the country on the off-chance i get voted in just so they could see me eventually dead
couch it in some “ultimate sacrifice” bullshit. ya I love this idea
Everything is metamorphosed into its inverse in order to be perpetuated in its purged form. Every form of power, every situation speaks of itself by denial, in order to attempt to escape, by simulation of death, its real agony. Power can stage its own murder to rediscover a glimmer of existence and legitimacy. Thus with the American presidents: the Kennedys are murdered because they still have a political dimension. Others - Johnson, Nixon, Ford - only had a right to puppet attempts, to simulated murders. But they nevertheless needed that aura of an artficial menace to conceal that they were nothing other than mannequins of power. In olden days the king (also the god) had to die - that was his strength. Today he does his miserable utmost to pretend to die, so as to preserve the blessing of power. But even this is gone.
Replace elections with the Mesoamerican ballgame.
Wasn’t this a short story that got adapted into a vault in one of the modern Fallout games?
yeah there was a bunch of campaign posters telling everyone to vote for their opponents
