It might surprise many people to learn that the USA is, in its grass roots, just as fundamentalist a nation as is any Islamic republic. Passionate religious fervor drives at least fifty percent of the electorate and through it, faith is striving to push back hard-won freedoms on every front.
Belief is working to defeat or contain advances in so many areas, including scientific research and medicine as well as gender acknowledgment, voting rights, and other basic freedoms.
What if, in this blinkered horse-race, the reins were lost and in the future, through one blunder after another, the USA became even more deeply invested in fundamentalism? We already saw it happen.
When blind and power-hungry people adorn themselves with the raiment of gods, it's ordinary, everyday people whose lives become Hell.
This is the story of someone, in the not-too-distant future, who fought that good fight.