ba mươi ❀| you force your fire, then you falsify your deeds

[lotuslife]

[The morning after Lucy's phone call across town, Vietnam is taking a page out of Russia's Fat Book of Communism. And by that, I mean she's doing what her comrade does when he's depressed: create propaganda, of course! It seems like a good idea. Why wouldn't it be a good idea. What she and all of Mayfield needs right now is a good infusion of the

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[grand_theft_moe]

[Chizuko's come to most of the same conclusion, although not in her colorful, dramatic, Marxist speech.]

I said mostly the same thing over the phones. I do not think our salvation will lie in any particular ideology though.

[lotuslife]

You must consider the possibility. There is a lot of anti-communist sentiment in this town meant to discourage us from it... One has to wonder why.

[grand_theft_moe]

We are in America. Before I arrived here, a senator named McCarthy was stirring the public into an anti-Communist frenzy. It would be more odd if such sentiment didn't exist here.

[lotuslife]

I never met him, actually. [tilts her head] Which was probably for the best.

[grand_theft_moe]

In both our cases. Still, I have a feeling that neither of us is going to be able to get the message through.

[lotuslife]

It is worth a try, no? And no matter what, I am... [pauses, looking at the poster] Loyal to the cause, despite anything Mayfield might say.

[grand_theft_moe]

Your loyalty is admirable, oneechan. Still, I favor democracy. I simply don't think this town is willing to accept it.

[lotuslife]

There is nothing wrong with democracy if it is uninterfered with. [a sigh.] That is what is happening here.