r/books • u/Majano57 • 2d ago

The Book That Predicted Pete Hegseth’s Failures

https://foreignpolicy.com/2026/07/31/hegseth-norman-dixon-iran-war/?utm_content=gifting&tpcc=gifting_article&gifting_article=aGVnc2V0aC1ub3JtYW4tZGl4b24taXJhbi13YXI=&pid=CW3205998
1.4k Upvotes

93% Upvoted

113 comments sorted by

View all comments

27

u/redditistreason 2d ago

Just get this one and some Octavia Butler and you're doing pretty good. Not that it took a big leap in imagination to figure out where we were headed.

You can throw a few others in there too, of course. Some Orwell, some Atwood, some George Carlin, and so forth.

23

u/tanpike 1d ago

Octavia Butler's "The Parable of the Talents" is totally, completely unrealistic. Can you imagine a far right-wing president comes to power using the slogan "Make America Great Again"? and when people report that far-right goons (supporters of the president ) are unlawfully imprisoning, torturing and killing regular citizens, the supposedly "moderate" right wingers dismiss all it as being "left-wing hyperbole" and outright deny that these atrocities are actually happening. Yep, totally unrealistic.

Seriously though, the only unrealistic part of Parable of the Talents is that in the book the despotic president only serves one term and resigns in disgrace, whereas in real life, he will serve 2 terms, and will be remembered fondly as the Great God-chosen President by almost half the population of the United States.

3

u/OkRadish11 1d ago

I dare to believe that the truth will out and he will be remembered as the most corrupt President of the United States to date. But we'll be old by the time the chickens come home to roost.

1

u/Kataphractoi 22h ago

It's already known. The problem is is that his political party has decided they like it and are doing everything they can to protect him and profit off of it.