Chapter 11

“The trouble with matriarchy, besides the obvious injustices of it, is that it depends entirely on the goodwill, meekness, and sufferance of men. The moment that this assent is withdrawn, the ladies who pretend to be in control quickly discover how entirely helpless they are. Any sort of hierarchy that cannot defend itself or preserve its own existence without relying on the abject and voluntary compliance of someone else is neither natural, nor practical, nor sensible, nor logical. Any matriarchy, by its very nature, is a house of cards just waiting to topple over.” - Col. Jack Harrison

Some time later,
The Alton Family Residence
Miam, Florida

“So, my friends, I humbly accept your nomination to be the next President of the United States!” Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont stood and accepted the Democratic nomination to be the next President of the United States.

We all watched with some fascination, of course, seeing the old pinko goat get his moment in the Sun at last. While he stood a better chance than Biden when one compared head-to-head poll match-ups, there were certainly factors that had yet to be considered. The economy in the United States was a mess, due to a variety of factors, but there was a growing influx of capital from British expats like myself who had found ways to save their assets from confiscation.

I personally thought that the same factors that had buoyed Sanders’ chances would also benefit Trump. One was the collapse of the Warren candidacy from both the exodus of feminists and the increasing mistrust by even progressive male voters for female candidates. Another aspect of this was the general, “swing voter” antipathy to anything resembling feminism these days. It was kind of a “kiss of death” for many candidates to be too feminist in their leanings nowadays. The fiasco that was gynocracy in England was enough to make even plenty of female swing voters leery of too much association with such things.

The arrests of Cardi B, Beyonce Knowles, and Asia Argento, among others, had brought the alleged plot to take over the United States by force and establish a matriarchy through a violent revolution or coup into people’s eyes. Leaked videos went viral of various feminists talking a good game about how they planned to take over by hook or by crook, and do in the United States and Canada what they did in Great Britain. Six ministers of the Canadian Liberal government of Justin Trudeau, all women, had to resign and be replaced in a hurry. The Conservative Party of Canada was very quick to pounce on that, unlike the New Democrats, who apparently had too many malignant feminists among their leaders, too.

Meanwhile, the general strike that had spread throughout England threatened to cause the national infrastructure to utterly collapse. Men increasingly left their sponsors, camped out in front of work sites, and didn’t merely refuse to work on them. They deliberately created a massive picket line and refused to let anyone cross it. Male police constables had quit in a hurry by now and attached themselves as security for these campers. Male military personnel not only deserted, but took much of the military gear with them and disabled the systems which they had operated in the recent past. Male mutineers seized control of various warships and put their female officers in the brig.

In other words, England was disintegrating in what could only be called a new national revolution. There were many threats issued by the Prime Minister and her government, but naturally, these were ignored and it was harder for her to gain access to the necessary media to broadcast to the public. The power grid was on the brink of total failure, and with it came much misery, economic dislocation, lawlessness, crime, and general mayhem. It was almost certain that, at the present rate, England was about to return to the Dark Ages or worse.

While watching all of this with my new family, just after coupling with Vicky in fact, I got a phone call with an unidentified number. I was very curious as to who this could be, of course. It was obviously a burner, but how much reception would anyone clearly still in England have, right? The electric power grid was in serious trouble and that would adversely affect anything that relied on it. Trash had to be piling in the streets, too, I thought, a notion that tickled me pink.

“Who is this?” I demanded to know.

“This ... is Percy. Mum and Patsy are with me. Look, man, you were quite right and even Patsy and Mum know this. We’ve got major egg on our faces here! We just want to find a way out of the country. My wife, or rather sponsor, definitely proved to take over my firm and to be every bit the tyrant that you seemed to fear. Anyway, major things are going down. The Queen has formally abdicated in favor of Charles, who has immediately and formally dismissed the New Order regime and dissolved Parliament.