[exDemMom]

"It was then that Diana Moon Glampers, the Handicapper General, came into the studio with a double-barreled ten-gauge shotgun. She fired twice, and the Emperor and the Empress were dead before they hit the floor."

What always amazes me about that story is that its author is a huge leftist (although he did serve in WWII, gotta give him credit for that). This story hits the mark.

[headsonpikes]

Either the author had an epiphany regarding utopianism, or the story was meant as a mocking satire of conservative fears regarding socialist egalitarianism.

I prefer the former construction, just because I prefer to think well of people until shown otherwise.