Mine may be an odd sounding one at first blush: Woodrow Wilson does not re-segregate the Federal Government during World War 1. That was the source of many ills, some that last to the present day.
If you could change One event post 1900..?
Trying to avert the clusterfuck that was American mass involvement in Vietnam is not petty nor Democratic. Subsequently averting Watergate and mass incarceration (or at least lessening mass incarceration) is neither of them as well.
And plus people had every reason to protest against the Vietnam War, I mean we live in a democracy that allows us to do that. So it be undemocratic to prohibit it.
I have one for Australian politics, have Julia Gillard win 2013 Australian Federal Election allow herself to keep her position as prime minister of Australia.
One of these:
- The Manhattan Project never happens, keeping the nuclear genie in the bottle. Hopefully for good.
- Transistors are discovered around 1920 and become viable replacements for vacuum tubes by about 1930. Microprocessors by 1955. Computers get a 15-20 year head start.
- Key discoveries in molecular biology (the structure of DNA, etc.) happen 20 years earlier.
- The Western Allies grow some b**ls in 1939-1940 and invade Germany from the west on day 1. Or, to be less vulgar and to paraphrase If It Had Happened Otherwise, "If France and Britain Had Had an Atom of Firmness."
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J.f.k lives past November 22 1963
John Wayne never gets cancer
Huber t Humphrey CAN SOMEHOW SURVIVE TO WIN 76 NOMINATION
John Wayne never gets cancer
Huber t Humphrey CAN SOMEHOW SURVIVE TO WIN 76 NOMINATION
According to Wikipedia he smoked six packs a day. He smoked Camels, the #1 cigarette among doctors. Perhaps he would have done better on Chesterfields?
As it was, he managed to live to 72.
Not knowing Australian politics, what effect might this have please?
The British Labour Party never promotes devolution so the Union isn't at risk of being destroyed.
Boringly I would wave WW1 - (Tragically - I'd not happen as the Germans in Gassing my grandfather who was a Royal Engineer in 1916 resulted in him being invalided to a garrison in Ireland with him subsequently meeting and very quickly marrying my Nan - sp severe was the effects of this gassing that he only managed to father 9 children - and then in the late 50s coming to England to receive treatment where my dear mum met my dad - but I digress)
Many brilliant minds were lost during that war and while it did create a great deal of good social change (particulalrly in the UK) and boosted many technologies - elsewhere it created or laid the seeds for later lots of bad social change - ie Communism and National Socialism.
I think that many of the good social and technological developments would have naturally come to pass - it just might have taken longer.
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Ok a few events in American history I'd have to change ...
1) Lyndon B. Johnson not becoming president and passing the Social Security Act which is crippling the US economy (51% of budget goes to Medicaid/Medicare/ss)
2) FDR not becoming president and creating the New Deal that started American citizens reliance on government that has turned this country so far left to this day.
3) Obama losing the 2008 election (McCain the lesser of two evils ... hope he kicks cancers a$$ though)
4) Ted Cruz defeating Trump then Hillary and becoming the 45th President of the USA (modern conservatism wank!)
1) Lyndon B. Johnson not becoming president and passing the Social Security Act which is crippling the US economy (51% of budget goes to Medicaid/Medicare/ss)
2) FDR not becoming president and creating the New Deal that started American citizens reliance on government that has turned this country so far left to this day.
3) Obama losing the 2008 election (McCain the lesser of two evils ... hope he kicks cancers a$$ though)
4) Ted Cruz defeating Trump then Hillary and becoming the 45th President of the USA (modern conservatism wank!)
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And my event? Preventing WW2.
(Alt choice would be Beau not gaining cancer, Joe running and defeating Hillary and Trump to become pres)
(Alt choice would be Beau not gaining cancer, Joe running and defeating Hillary and Trump to become pres)
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Oh yeah, I wholeheartedly agree that any Republican would have a slim chance of winning 2008 against either Obama or Hillary. But still, I have felt the last eight years under Obama has been a disaster for this country in multiple forms that would likely not have happened under McCain (the presumed Republican winner in case Obama didn't win).
Interestingly, I do believe that if Hillary won in 2008 there was no way a terrible healthcare bill like Obamacare would be passed through Congress. She would not be a good president, but Hillary definitely would've been less bad than Obama.