AH Challenge: Dictatoracy in the USA
Your challenge if you choose to accept it is to create a US which combines elements of a Dictatorship and a Democracy in the following ways:
1. The president has canceled elections and has the military patrolling the streets of the cities.
2. The media is “free” from most or all censorship technically, but self-censorship and/or ownership of it by some of the government’s associates has rendered it completely devoid of dissent (a situation similar to Russia today, and to an extent most newspapers during WWII)
3. Some elections do take place on a local level. They may or may not be totally rigged, although they must ultimately either favor the current government or else be totally irrelevant.
4. The government has somehow managed to get companies back into the USA, and outsourcing has ended, giving way to a re-invigorated economy.
5. The overlords of this new American order include the president and any of the following: the military (de-facto Junta), the wealthy elites/corporations (oligarchy, plutocracy, kleptocracy, fascist corporatism or any combination of these into some unholy mixture), new-deal type left-wingers, and/or the ruling party.
6. The POD in question must allow this to occur by the 1930’s.
Bonus points: If you can get an American man on the moon by 1957.
Your challenge if you choose to accept it is to create a US which combines elements of a Dictatorship and a Democracy in the following ways:
1. The president has canceled elections and has the military patrolling the streets of the cities.
2. The media is “free” from most or all censorship technically, but self-censorship and/or ownership of it by some of the government’s associates has rendered it completely devoid of dissent (a situation similar to Russia today, and to an extent most newspapers during WWII)
3. Some elections do take place on a local level. They may or may not be totally rigged, although they must ultimately either favor the current government or else be totally irrelevant.
4. The government has somehow managed to get companies back into the USA, and outsourcing has ended, giving way to a re-invigorated economy.
5. The overlords of this new American order include the president and any of the following: the military (de-facto Junta), the wealthy elites/corporations (oligarchy, plutocracy, kleptocracy, fascist corporatism or any combination of these into some unholy mixture), new-deal type left-wingers, and/or the ruling party.
6. The POD in question must allow this to occur by the 1930’s.
Bonus points: If you can get an American man on the moon by 1957.
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