"We need to right that wrong. That was the candidate’s slogan."
This is my entry to 
Righting Wrongs
We need to right that wrong. That was the candidate’s slogan. He got a solid victory on a platform that promised to right decades of wrongs. Who would not vote for that?
Candid as the candidate looked, no one saw what happened next coming. He let the old system punch him while he redesigned the board at his will. He led all the old sharks come to him chasing his blood trail. When he got them where he wanted, he let the heavy grid fall on them.
After playing victim and with the world as his witness, he could afford some hard lines.
The world wanted justice to be served. The world wanted an underdog. The eternal candidate was more than willing to oblige. People had complained about politicians unilateral decisions. Now that the people thought they were being consulted on just about anything and had an actual saying, their voting right were extended generously.
All the now multilateral decisions, approved with a majority vote from the people, only benefited the eternal candidate who made sure his policies only perpetuated the state of subjugation that voting people had been living under. With eternal fictitious wars being fought on all fronts, with real and imaginary foes to blame for the lack of progress, the eternal candidate won all elections.
How could anyone in their right minds accuse him of being a dictator? Never before, had any president consulted his people so much on so many sensitive issues. The best laws were drafted thanks to these consultations, only the people never saw any of them being enforced. They were enforced, though, in the government-run media. Never mind real people never saw any real improvements. It was their word against the media.
Now that the damage is irreversible and millions have left, it is about time those voting rights are adjusted to right another wrong.
Way too many traitors have been working from home and abroad to undermine the work of the eternal candidate, now represented by another puppet. None of those traitors, especially the ones who left the country and yielded their citizens’ rights, deserve the right to vote. Any voter who cannot recite the benefits of the revolution or the achievements of the last 20 years deserves to be cast out and away. Literacy has many layers and some people may know how to read and write but they can’t be considered literate if they read and write the wrong words.
Re-education will be a prerequisite to enfranchisement. Voting is a big power. Greater still is the responsibility of using that power well. We can’t afford to give that power to the wrong people.
The future is bright for the revolutionaries of the world!
Plenty of international impartial and disinterested celebrities willing to support dialogues and elections that will ensure that things will remain the way they are. Good offices, they call it.
