A disturbance of fate - president RFK

You should be in the books discussion, where we already discussed it.


Essentially the first half of the book is pretty good (although the primary campaign cheats, somewhat, as does the general election[1]). The main problem is USSR-USA dealings and a somewhat too optimistic situation in Viet Nam.

The second half of the book is…*less good. Here's a taste: a moderate Republican gets elected and proceeds to do some deregulation, the USA has a civil war. Uh huh. Also: earnings are capped[2], and the USA magically prevents rich people from leaving the country.

I've linked his short essay on RFK winning the primaries (it's 50 cents, and although it's American only they didn't care that I used a Canadian credit card) a couple times, which is actually more realistic than how the book lays it out (weird, that) and I'd honestly recommend the essay over the book.



[1] Instead of beating McCarthy fair and square, McCarthy self-distracts. Instead of a narrow general election victory, RFK gets a fairly large one.

[2] I could buy a USA that ties manager salary to worker salary at some x value, but flat out capping earnings? No.
 
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