Are All Politicians Corrupt?

I wrote a novel in my twenties called EPOCH.

It was a mish-mash of everything I liked to read and watch, hints of unstoppable action stars with a little social commentary and smart ass-ery thrown in for good measure.

It was set in a post apocalyptic future, in a society rebuilt from the ashes of War.

The uber-rich can afford personal bodyguards to keep them safe in their high rise sealed skyscrapers, while a mindless mob swarms the streets below.

I was reminded of how it could happen in 2020, this story I wrote in 95.

People took to the streets to protest a black man’s death at the hands of a police officer.

They swarmed. They seethed. They raged and destroyed and fought each other and any one who came into their reach.

It was chaotic and disturbing, and one step above what I had in mind when I described the mob in Epoch.

But it was close.

Add in hunger, and fear and homelessness for a few years and it may get there.

As this mob screamed and yelled and pulsed in anger, the wealth gap widened.

The wealthy 1% got even richer as the stock market soared, and they did things with their wealth to ensure it remained with them.