"You're one of them? Unbelievable!" Michael's wife, Samantha, stomped away.

Michael's holo-phone chimed. "Oh, hi Sis, what's up? Are you upset with my candidate, too?"

His sister yelled profanities at him and hung up.

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He called Frank, a fellow member of an underground Neo-Luddite organization. "They all hate me now, but our candidate will stop the robotic takeover."

"I know, Mike, those bleeding hearts on the news call us a hate group!"

"Because we marched against that corrupt ‘Equal Rights for Sentients’ bill?"

"Destroy them all!" yelled Frank.

"Hell yeah, Frank! That'll be our new campaign slogan: Destroy Them All!"