Got this idea for a political thriller.

[Eliot Rosewater]

The scene: World is in turmoil over fascists getting elected and doing what they do, harming and killing and so on. There is a chance it can be handled if only the liberal in a place called United Cool Dudes & Dudettes
can get elected, but there is a fly in that ointment.

As there is this progressive candidate who at the worst possible time imaginable decides to run 3rd party.


She/he decides that since she/he could likely get almost half of the Cool party vote, and would get most of the independents and about 25% of the No Good Fuckers party given they were mad at the current prez who acted like a dictator, that she/he can actually win.


So she/he announces this and of course the expected result is enough votes are siphoned away from the Cool Party candidate and the dictator is reelected and a year later their enemy is in charge, etc. Or worldwide nuclear war, or I fast forward in the story 9 years to worldwide calamity due to climate change, so much to choose from for me the writer, eh!

Just a thought. Would this come under horror or political?


disclaimer: I am in no way attributing these fictional characters to anyone in real life