Chapter 270 - Prime Minister
I had left our meeting and went straight to speaking with Ashton, but there were things I had to do before I could go off and meet this new Prime Minister. I also considered putting it off until after the 'test' but decided not to. If I survived, I wasn't going to be in the mood to meet anyone, let alone a self declared 'Prime Minister.'
I wasn't even sure how that even worked. Was the man voted in? If he was, how was an election held?
My main thought was about how it would play out into the future. Democracy, as much as it was laudable, didn't really have a place anymore. That wasn't how the world was going to work after the Change.
Forcing that, either because of ideals of general hope, was an effort in futility.
It was bound to fail just as Socialism was bound to fail Before. It was fine on paper or in a vacuum, but when it came time to employ it, things would fall apart. People with powers weren't going to let it, the same way people with money weren't going to give it up.
Levels made the idea of 'equality' moot. It was sad, and not something I liked to think about, but that didn't make it untrue. With tangible power, one person was not equal to another.
Hypothetically, if what this new Prime Minister was doing lasted say... ten years, maybe twenty, if he was lucky, how would someone in the D-rank, or maybe higher, feel about being treated the same as someone in the F-rank?
I for one would detest such a comparison. I already felt pity for them, but the idea we were the same was impossible to comprehend. They were fine, happy even, to languish and relegate themselves to a lower rank while that was unacceptable to me.
It was leaving their safety and well-being in the hands of another willingly.
They weren't standing on the walls during a defense. They weren't charging into a horde of Demons to defend their home.
To say that we were equal? That was fundamentally impossible.
The higher ranks would grow angry and resentful. Once that happened, it was only a matter of time before it all came crashing down if an outside force didn't do it beforehand.