Finicum’s 241-page apocalyptic cowboy thriller titled “Only By Blood and Suffering” is a how-to on surviving after a electromagnetic pulse or nuclear attack when your Escalade stops driving, the government has bought back all of your guns, President Bill Clinton signed away your country’s missile technology to the Chinese, the Supreme Court is loaded with lefty judicial activists and you don’t have an adequate amount of gold and “junk silver” to get by when the stock market implodes, interest rates balloon overnight and the value of the dollar collapses.
A parade of imaginary bogeymen to scare the right-wing paranoid, but too overly biased toward Western libertarian-based paranoia.
Where are the kids being brainwashed into believing that same-sex marriages and group marriage are superior to marriage of a heterosexual couple? Where are the spies in Christian churches, and the churches being shut down for anti-government activity? Where’s the sharia law? Where are the mobile abortion clinics roaming the streets like predatory bookmobiles? Where are the mandatory preschools, to get toddlers out of the home and indoctrinated by government specialists?
I appreciate that the author had the main character leering at the female mayor before offing her, but he missed a good opportunity to frame it as the inevitable and justifiable outcome of rejecting Bible-driven patriarchy. Instead, he went back to the property-rights well once again.
He needs a coauthor who is well-versed in the paranoid nightmares peddled by the nuts and the manipulators in the Evangelical community.
