Encounters Out There

Holo clips from the One Earth presidential debate:

"Billions of migrant aliens have invaded our space colonies and homeworld!" said a candidate. "There'll be no native Earthers left!"

"Nonsense," said the incumbent. "We live in One United Galaxy now."

"They're taking up all our space! We need more space!"

"More space? Are you kidding? We have teleportation technology—thanks to the aliens, we can go anywhere."

"We've cured all disease and have post-scarcity with ASI that we invented!"

"Actually," the incumbent straightened up, "Aliens are cyborgs. The ASI is a result of their mental cluster."

The candidate angrily stared ahead.