Yes…Or No? (Better Say Yes)

Consent Is the Strongest Weapon

In a near-future United States obsessed with speed, unity, and global supremacy, the government cannot legally impose blind obedience—so it offers citizens a permanent choice instead: yes… or no? Those who say yes rise through society, gaining power, security, and privilege. Those who say no are not imprisoned, but quietly erased—excluded from opportunity and reduced to irrelevance.

Colonel Nathaniel “Nate” Hale is a flawless product of this system. A decorated military officer, he has built his career on loyalty, discipline, and unquestioning compliance. He believes the system is necessary, even moral. Progress, after all, demands sacrifice.

Until the sacrifice becomes personal.

When Hale’s only son refuses a national directive, the state condemns him to death as a warning to others. Ordered not only to authorize the execution but to oversee it, Hale faces the one decision he has avoided his entire life. To say yes is to preserve his rank, legacy, and place in the system. To say no is to lose everything—and become an enemy of the state.

His refusal ignites a chain reaction that fractures the military and exposes a terrifying truth: a democracy can become authoritarian without violence, without chains, and without coups—through consent alone.

Yes… Or No? (Better Say Yes) is a dystopian political thriller about power, obedience, and the moment when saying no becomes the most dangerous act of all.