Yes, he’s really that hard-up

Orson Scott Card, author of Ender’s Game and a whole bunch of other books that generally no one gives a crap about, is a political junkie.

What many people are unaware of is that Card is also a bloody psychic. Put the two together and you get this:

Yes, that’s the U.S. capital building in the background.

Yes, the title is “Empire.”

Yes, our worst fears have been realized: Orson Scott Card has officially lost his marbles and conceived of a way to have the Red States and the Blue States duke it out in an arena a little more grandiose than Battle School.

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