Reimagining "On Thursday We Leave for Home" Part 2
Finally, the big day arrives. At the prescribed moment, all the conservatives activate their belts and vanish all at once. But Mitt doesn’t activate his. We briefly see the conservatives arrive in the world identical to ours except with all the Leftists gone to the other Earth. President Trumpet broadcasts a speech to the new JTA. “Let’s stop and pray first, that God will bless our efforts in this new world.” Everyone kneels down to pray and when finished, they get up to start creating their new society.
Meanwhile on the Earth Beta, Romney goes to House Speaker Nancy Pizzonni and asks what his role will be in this society. “Who needs you, pretty boy?” she snorts. “You were a useful idiot when we had an enemy, but he’s gone now – and so are all the other conservatives. You’re low man on the totem pole now. Here, go pass out these new census forms for everyone.”
Mitteen looks at the forms. “There are 23 genders listed here.”
“And they’ll all have to be equally distributed in each company or they’ll be fines or a government takeover until they do it right.”
“This is crazy!” he protests.
“Don’t talk to your President that way,” she growls. “Remember Trumpet and VP Pensetter went to Earth Alpha. Now, by succession, I’m the President. First, I’m issuing an executive order cutting off funding to any church that won’t perform gay weddings. Then another one that anyone who insults someone else’s religion, or says that something not already illegal is a sin will face mandatory jail time. And they can protest to the Supreme Court if they want – our 4 leftist judges aren’t a minority anymore; they’re the whole SCOTUS now. And I get to name 5 more who’ll tow the party line. And by the way, I’m suspending this year’s Presidential election. Everyone has suffered an obvious trauma by losing half the country, so it’s a bad time to be out campaigning and trying to choose a new leader. I’ll just stay in office an extra four years, because it’s the right thing to do.”
Mitt realizes he’s made a horrible mistake. He runs back to the machine, frantically trying to activate his belt. But it doesn’t work now, and it never will again. “Don't leave me behind. Don't leave me here!” he pleads to the sky, “Please. Please I - I want to go home.”
“Romney Mitteen, who had prerogatives: he could lead the resistance, he could criticize the man in charge, and thus be adored by the enemy. It became a habit, then a pattern, and finally a necessity. Romney Mitteen, once a god adored by the Left - now a minority of one.”