Chapter 29

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Lily wasn't too dissapointed that Jacob didn't ask her to come to his sister's wedding. His whole family was chrislamic socialist, she was a satanic libertarian. Besides, this night her dads wanted to watch the libertairian primary debate. One of these candidates would be their party's nominee for president in a few months, might as well knew where they stand on certain issues. Congressman Weaver was the front-runner for the moment. Although the libertarians had long advocated an open immigration policy Weaver also believed in a city's right to deny employment to an individual based on their ethnicity. Weaver's critics accused him of appealing to racists and nativists. Over the last decade a number of people had been immigrating from the Maldives. They were fleeing the islands, which were literally sinking. Somehow the maldivian refugees had become the newest scapegoat for the nativists to condemn. This had been going on in America long before the Great Revelation. These days chrismujews didn't like satanists immigrating to America. Their logic was that if they remained satanists, despite chrislamic persecutions, they would likely hold on to their satanic faith even harder, contaminate chrismujew children. Satanists used the same logic in despising chrismujewish immigrants. The Maldives had been relatively neutral in this cold war, both satanists and chrismujews were fleeing. Thus there were elements in both the american socialist and libertarian parties who opposed the mass influx of maldivian refugees. This sickened Lily, how people could rail against immigrants and yet be the descendants of immigrants. She wished she were old enough to vote against Weaver.