Isaac Beach
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I think I prefer the top-left; the slant looks a bit queer to me. Otherwise I'd agree with Analytical Engine, bottom-right.
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I think I prefer the top-left; the slant looks a bit queer to me. Otherwise I'd agree with Analytical Engine, bottom-right.
All the four different versions I thought were the best, combined to fit in one image. The x-axis is "italicization of the P", and the y-axis is "italicization of the F".
Sorry about the spam/borderline like-whoring (?) : P
Full size
bottom right is the one I prefer myself
markus meecham
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ritual assassination of the members of parliament every four years.
tree of liberty something something blood hell yeah
Just some HOI4-styled graphical infoboxes for oncoming map/worldbuilding project.
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I was re-watching the simpsons and noticed this odd crest in the background of season 15, episode 4 "The Regina Monologues"
Its not the best re-creation as im very much an amature!
here is a screenshot of the scene:
Its not the best re-creation as im very much an amature!
here is a screenshot of the scene:
Isaac Beach
Banned
Here's my working badge and title for the world Hatkirby and I are working on: Dacia. It looks askew, but I can't seem to get it centered in a satisfying way. Oh well, works for now. It's composed of a Dacian Draco, a Falx and an Orthodox Cross.
Hapsburg
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Sacrifice the king at the end of their year, new king consecrates the land with blood. The king and the land are one, yadda yadda. Sunrise, sunset.
Make the falx roughly the same height as the cross, place them vertical, then place the draco over the top making a sort of pi formation.
Alternatively the falx and draco can form arcs/brackets around the cross.
That's where that PF logo came from...
Draft of a logo for the Parti Francophone in Kanan's Our Fair Country timeline. I'm still not sure about the shape of the F (especially the bottom), anyone have any suggestions?
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Kingdom of Guatemala is essentially the Captaincy-General, which was all of Central America minus Panama.
A History of the American Left is a series of history books by Professor Maite Etxeberria of the University of San Francisco, published between 2003 and 2017, aiming to tell the story of the many strands that made up the past of the present American left.
Vol. 1: Free Soil, Free Men, Free Labor (published 2003) is about the Republican Party (and National Union between 1869 and 1885), starting with the founding in 1854 by anti-slavery Whigs, going through their defeat in 1856 with John Fremont, then their victory in 1860 with the unrepentantly-radical Cornelius Crittenden which ends up being assassinated as the civil war brewed, then the war was incompetently won by his successor Clement Cook. In 1868, James W. Marsh won the election in a nailbiter over the Democrat, and then had a presidency where Reconstruction was "saved" and civil rights was asserted over the whole United States. After him, it all fell apart as the Democrat won. Clement Cook's son Lewis Cook won 1880 and oversaw the worsening of the Depression, setting things up for the end of the National Union in 1884.
In 1885, the divided left-wing parties apart from the socialists voted to merge into a new party, to be called the Democratic-Republicans (later renamed Progressives). The National Unionists split, with the left joining it and the right establishing a new Republican Party, one of free-market liberalism and decidedly rejecting radicalism. Nevertheless, they languished in third place for more than a decade until the Conservative Party split over their 1892 nominee assassinating President Grover Blaine over a grudge, leading to northern Conservatives joining the Republicans and leading them to power in 1900. Unfortunately, the party as a whole was relatively inexperienced and despite their best efforts, managed to lose the next election to a resurgent Conservative Party, cementing a new duopoly between the Republicans and the Conservatives with the Progressives as a third wheel. The rise of Albert S. Fitzgerald shifted the party leftwards to what he dubbed "ethical capitalism" and to further co-operation with the Progressives, ending up with a merger just before Fitzgerald's sudden death in 1921.
In 1885, the divided left-wing parties apart from the socialists voted to merge into a new party, to be called the Democratic-Republicans (later renamed Progressives). The National Unionists split, with the left joining it and the right establishing a new Republican Party, one of free-market liberalism and decidedly rejecting radicalism. Nevertheless, they languished in third place for more than a decade until the Conservative Party split over their 1892 nominee assassinating President Grover Blaine over a grudge, leading to northern Conservatives joining the Republicans and leading them to power in 1900. Unfortunately, the party as a whole was relatively inexperienced and despite their best efforts, managed to lose the next election to a resurgent Conservative Party, cementing a new duopoly between the Republicans and the Conservatives with the Progressives as a third wheel. The rise of Albert S. Fitzgerald shifted the party leftwards to what he dubbed "ethical capitalism" and to further co-operation with the Progressives, ending up with a merger just before Fitzgerald's sudden death in 1921.
Vol. 2: If There's No Struggle, There's No Progress (published 2005) is about the Progressive Party, but it also tells the story of the split left-wing parties that merged into it, such as the Populist Party [agrarian radicals split off both parties], Liberal Freedom [the disgraced opium addict former president's "free-thinking" party] and Courage Party [the successor to the disgraced Democrats], with National Union being already covered in the first book. The Democratic-Republicans [as they were called at first] dominated the opposition to the Conservatives, but after their one and only president, Henry David McCullough, they fell behind the Conservatives and Republicans. In this period of crisis, there was two men who battled it out for influence, Waldus Beck of Wisconsin and Theodore Roosevelt of New York. Roosevelt was immensely popular with the Progressive base, but every time he ran, he managed to encounter misfortune that a lot increasingly placed blame on him, but some was on the party or in two cases, a splitter Progressive ticket as Roosevelt was not popular with other politicians in his party since he rubbed them the wrong way. After Roosevelt was shot, Waldus Beck assumed full control and started the process of moving it closer to co-operation with Albert Fitzgerald's Republican Party, up to the merger in 1921 which got some die-hard Progressives condemning it and splitting off to merge with United Left to form the SDP.
Vol 3: New Ideas Without Rigid Reactions (published 2007) is about the Progressive-Republicans. The brainchild of Waldus Beck and Albert S. Fitzgerald, the two parties preceding it were increasingly close as the Conservatives despised the relatively moderate President Fitzgerald due to the fact he was a former Conservative who left the party in the 1890s. Fitzgerald tragically died a few months after the party was formed, handing power to his vice-president, Scipio Grocer, who was controversial because of his being the first African-American president. This led to the "Sweltering Summers" of the 1920s as a stagnant economy, a minority president, and rising far-right elements led to the shaky Reconstruction all but collapsing. The infant party barely survived the baptism of fire. In 1928, it shifted to the left, abandoning "ethical capitalism" in favour of strong progressivism and they lost, but in 1932 after the Great Depression wrecked the weak economy, they doubled down with J. Edgar Hoover who promised a "Equal Slice". The rise of Citizen's Choice, the increasing number of scandals in the Hoover Administration and the humiliating loss of the Second Great War proved lethal as the party fell to third in the election, missing out on the runoff. Hoover reacted badly, authorising the murder of Louis Orléans, but FBI Director Huey Long disagreed and had him "disposed of".
Without Hoover and with the scandals, the PRUSA was taken over by Arthur Urbonas in 1940 who desired a "broad-left" alliance with the SDP, but this proved to only hurt the party as moderates shifted even more to Orléans' centrist vehicle. A more left-wing base led to the nomination of Ness Roth, a charismatic left-wing populist, in 1944 and 1948, both times losing. In 1952, the centrists finally won back control with John Charest, but it came at the worst possible time as the Social Conservatives wiped everyone out and the SDP refused to endorse him for the runoff. In 1954, the PRUSA finally swallowed its pride and agreed to an Alliance with Citizen's Choice and the Social Democrats, starting a new era.
Without Hoover and with the scandals, the PRUSA was taken over by Arthur Urbonas in 1940 who desired a "broad-left" alliance with the SDP, but this proved to only hurt the party as moderates shifted even more to Orléans' centrist vehicle. A more left-wing base led to the nomination of Ness Roth, a charismatic left-wing populist, in 1944 and 1948, both times losing. In 1952, the centrists finally won back control with John Charest, but it came at the worst possible time as the Social Conservatives wiped everyone out and the SDP refused to endorse him for the runoff. In 1954, the PRUSA finally swallowed its pride and agreed to an Alliance with Citizen's Choice and the Social Democrats, starting a new era.
Vol 4.: No Socialism without Democracy (published 2010) is about the Social Democrats and predecessors. Starting with the split of Arthur Morgan and the hard-left from the National Union Party to form the People's Revolutionary Party in the late 1870s. Morgan authorised in 1884 the rising up by the party to form the "Manhattan Commune" in protest at the Conservatives taking control of the country in alliance with the hard-right Dixie Party, and the failure led to the party being all but dismantled, with the relatively-unknown Augustus Watson taking it over when the party leadership were all arrested. Morgan would rebrand the party twice in his long chairmanship, first as the Revolutionary Front to shed the associations with the failed Commune, and second as the Labor Party to move the party beyond revolutionary socialism and into labor union advocacy thanks to the lobbying of the moderate Robert L. Fischer, who rose up in the party ranks in the 1890s. Fischer would successfully exploit divisions within the Progressive ranks emerging from their "moderate" President and got defections in the 1900s to form the new United Left Federation, yet another rebranding which would inspire a cartoon about yet another change of name for the "socialist shop" with a customer going "Gee, why are you changing the name again, I liked the old one."
The United Left Federation experienced a huge surge due to Progressive discontent but it all fell apart in the late 1910s due to the war which a big chunk of the party opposed as a "bourgeois war" and the rise of the Nationalists as an alternate working-class party. The merger that formed the PRUSA was a lifeline for the party as they managed to get several die-hard Progressives to agree to a merger to form the SDP. One face that dominated the SDP in the 1920s was the incredibly-popular Rosa Luxemburg of Michigan who managed to rally the stagnant party to resurgence in her two runs for the Presidency in 1924 and 1932. After her, the party became increasingly divided between those that wanted to keep the party a firm socialist path and those that advocated a "New Direction", championed by the Wilson twins Darren and Audrey. The SDP experienced an almost-split but in the end patched things up in 1952 and won a very respectable result. In 1954, the SDP agreed to an Alliance with the other "not-Conservative" parties [apart from the centrist American Party] to unite the opposition to the hegemonic Social Conservatives.
The United Left Federation experienced a huge surge due to Progressive discontent but it all fell apart in the late 1910s due to the war which a big chunk of the party opposed as a "bourgeois war" and the rise of the Nationalists as an alternate working-class party. The merger that formed the PRUSA was a lifeline for the party as they managed to get several die-hard Progressives to agree to a merger to form the SDP. One face that dominated the SDP in the 1920s was the incredibly-popular Rosa Luxemburg of Michigan who managed to rally the stagnant party to resurgence in her two runs for the Presidency in 1924 and 1932. After her, the party became increasingly divided between those that wanted to keep the party a firm socialist path and those that advocated a "New Direction", championed by the Wilson twins Darren and Audrey. The SDP experienced an almost-split but in the end patched things up in 1952 and won a very respectable result. In 1954, the SDP agreed to an Alliance with the other "not-Conservative" parties [apart from the centrist American Party] to unite the opposition to the hegemonic Social Conservatives.
Vol. 5: A Citizenry Assembled (published 2012) tells the story of the idiosyncratic centrist Louis Orléans and the similarly-idiosyncratic party he founded, Citizen's Choice. Starting with Orléans' announcement that he would run an independent campaign, it focuses on the man himself and his political rise up until he founds Citizen's Choice in 1934 which then turns to a more general party focus, especially with the Vox Populi coalition between Citizen's Choice, the SDP, the Nationalists and others just fed up of the dominance of the "Big Two" - represented in a cartoon as Orléans struggling to keep everyone singing from the same book as a conductor. Orléans' feud with President Hoover takes up many of the early chapters, and Citizen's Choice's incoherency - being an anti-establishment centrist party founded on a vague "hope and change" platform and hero-worship of its leader - is highlighted. Orléans leads the country into the "German War", what is considered today to be "World War Two, Round Two" and the party's shift leftwards following its leader as the war continues, leading to moderates becoming more disillusioned with their President.
Orléans' assassination in 1945 leads to the party becoming rudderless and shifting back to the centre, pushing disillusioned left-wing people back to the PRUSA [and some to the SDP] as Presidents F. Scott Fitzgerald and Cato Grocer oversees the economy's collapse, the start of Deconstruction as civil rights fall back hugely and the party heading towards oblivion. In 1952, the party splits between endorsing John Charest and endorsing Orléans' half-brother in his independent campaign. Both Henry Jones Jr. and John Charest wouldn't win as the green tide proved too much. CC, heavily battered and down to a record low, agreed to enter in an Alliance with the PRUSA and SDP.
Orléans' assassination in 1945 leads to the party becoming rudderless and shifting back to the centre, pushing disillusioned left-wing people back to the PRUSA [and some to the SDP] as Presidents F. Scott Fitzgerald and Cato Grocer oversees the economy's collapse, the start of Deconstruction as civil rights fall back hugely and the party heading towards oblivion. In 1952, the party splits between endorsing John Charest and endorsing Orléans' half-brother in his independent campaign. Both Henry Jones Jr. and John Charest wouldn't win as the green tide proved too much. CC, heavily battered and down to a record low, agreed to enter in an Alliance with the PRUSA and SDP.
Vol. 6: Fighting what Divided Us (published 2014) tells the story of the "establishment left" in the Conservative Ascendancy, an era dominated by the right-wing Social Conservatives. The Alliance struggled to get off the ground as latent distrust between the three parties hindered co-operation to stop Nixon's radical reactionary agenda including repealing universal healthcare, encouraging the collapse of civil rights and the new "Twilight Struggle" with the People's Communist Republic of Germany. In the end, the 1956 nominee of Admiral Jack McCain failed to prevent Nixon from winning an outright majority, bypassing the need for a runoff. The three parties came together and agreed to fully merge as the new Citizens' Alliance. Unfortunately for them, a section of the SDP would reject this and split off as the American Labor Party.
The Citizens' Alliance, nominating Henry Jones Jr., managed to win the 1960 election via the Electoral College while losing the popular vote, and then a torrent of obstructionism by the Social Conservatives of the relatively centrist platform the CA haggled out with the centrist American Party led to government being frozen at a moment when Nixon's implemented Social Credit saw its bubble burst. Jones was blamed for this by Social Conservatives while the Citizens' Alliance solidly blamed Nixon. The government failed to even appoint much cabinet positions and led to a divided country where the south and west stood with the Soc-Cons and the north and Pacific Coast stood with the embattled president, which of course led to him repeating his 1960 "feat" in 1964 leading to many cries on the right for abolishing the Electoral College once and for all.
Obstruction eased in his second term, but Deconstruction was already heating up and there was nothing he could do about it, not with his civil rights legislation being stonewalled by the Soc-Con Congress and the South collapsing in outright race war. In the end, Deconstruction claimed another victim as a radical civil rights campaigner decided that Jones was not doing what was needed for civil rights and assassinated him. Vice-President Bell fell to the same assassin, handing power to Maxie Short, the Secretary of State. Short's radical legislation broke through the wall of Social Conservatives due to political capital from the assassinations, but the economy collapsed yet again and he was wiped out.
After 1969, the Citizens' Alliance increasingly represented those who were "passed over" by the Conservative Ascendancy, which shifted the party to the left and allowed for the rise of Forward in Unity, the successor to the centrist American Party, and to the opposition to the Soc-Cons being divided yet again. With the 1976 election being narrower than expected thanks to the charm of Jackie Coppola, the Citizens' Alliance decided that just like in 1960, there should be another merger of the opposition to the Social Conservatives. In the end, Forward in Unity and the NLC agreed to merge with the Citizens' Alliance as the new Reform Party. But in 1980, President Dwight Potter temporarily split the party when he called for a National Unity ticket to stand against the PCRG in the coming Third World War, and this proved to cost the party a possible victory.
By 1984, all those political realities wouldn't even exist any longer, destroyed by the blinding flash of nuclear bombs and the deaths of millions. The Reform Party held on as the left split off as the Radical Party, but after the Radicals won the 1984 election, Reform rapidly collapsed.
The Citizens' Alliance, nominating Henry Jones Jr., managed to win the 1960 election via the Electoral College while losing the popular vote, and then a torrent of obstructionism by the Social Conservatives of the relatively centrist platform the CA haggled out with the centrist American Party led to government being frozen at a moment when Nixon's implemented Social Credit saw its bubble burst. Jones was blamed for this by Social Conservatives while the Citizens' Alliance solidly blamed Nixon. The government failed to even appoint much cabinet positions and led to a divided country where the south and west stood with the Soc-Cons and the north and Pacific Coast stood with the embattled president, which of course led to him repeating his 1960 "feat" in 1964 leading to many cries on the right for abolishing the Electoral College once and for all.
Obstruction eased in his second term, but Deconstruction was already heating up and there was nothing he could do about it, not with his civil rights legislation being stonewalled by the Soc-Con Congress and the South collapsing in outright race war. In the end, Deconstruction claimed another victim as a radical civil rights campaigner decided that Jones was not doing what was needed for civil rights and assassinated him. Vice-President Bell fell to the same assassin, handing power to Maxie Short, the Secretary of State. Short's radical legislation broke through the wall of Social Conservatives due to political capital from the assassinations, but the economy collapsed yet again and he was wiped out.
After 1969, the Citizens' Alliance increasingly represented those who were "passed over" by the Conservative Ascendancy, which shifted the party to the left and allowed for the rise of Forward in Unity, the successor to the centrist American Party, and to the opposition to the Soc-Cons being divided yet again. With the 1976 election being narrower than expected thanks to the charm of Jackie Coppola, the Citizens' Alliance decided that just like in 1960, there should be another merger of the opposition to the Social Conservatives. In the end, Forward in Unity and the NLC agreed to merge with the Citizens' Alliance as the new Reform Party. But in 1980, President Dwight Potter temporarily split the party when he called for a National Unity ticket to stand against the PCRG in the coming Third World War, and this proved to cost the party a possible victory.
By 1984, all those political realities wouldn't even exist any longer, destroyed by the blinding flash of nuclear bombs and the deaths of millions. The Reform Party held on as the left split off as the Radical Party, but after the Radicals won the 1984 election, Reform rapidly collapsed.
Vol. 7: Soldiers of Mother Earth (published 2015) is all about the "New Left" in the Conservative Ascendancy, especially the Nature and Left Coalition, a party made out of ecologists, hippies, libertarians, drug-taking people and sexual minorities. The NLC has its origins in the American Labor Party, a party set up by Social Democratic congresswoman Wendy Hamburger due to her opposition to the merger that formed the Citizens' Alliance. The ALP distinguished itself by its firm socially-liberal views and firm pacifism as contrasting to the Citizens' Alliance's "traditional left" stances, and so when it announced a merger with nascent libertarians to form the Nature and Left Coalition, it was clear that this was a "left-libertarian" party with a fascination for "alternative ideas" for the economy, such as "environmental economics".
The Nature and Left Coalition surged at the Citizens' Alliance's expense in the 1966 midterms, establishing itself as a major party and perhaps dooming the Citizens' Alliance's chances for victory in the future - if you ask some disgruntled people who were around back then. The NLC was defiant and refused any possible merger, but agreed to an electoral pact called the "Commonwealth Coalition" between the NLC, CA and the small Christian Party so to co-ordinate opposition strategies against the resurgent Soc-Cons. However, despite rising prominence in states such as California [where Governor Arya Moon was hastily making it known as a hippie "Technicolor State"], the NLC's resolve gave after the 1976 election returned a third Social Conservative victory and a seventh popular vote victory for the party, and they agreed to a merger to form Reform.
The Nature and Left Coalition surged at the Citizens' Alliance's expense in the 1966 midterms, establishing itself as a major party and perhaps dooming the Citizens' Alliance's chances for victory in the future - if you ask some disgruntled people who were around back then. The NLC was defiant and refused any possible merger, but agreed to an electoral pact called the "Commonwealth Coalition" between the NLC, CA and the small Christian Party so to co-ordinate opposition strategies against the resurgent Soc-Cons. However, despite rising prominence in states such as California [where Governor Arya Moon was hastily making it known as a hippie "Technicolor State"], the NLC's resolve gave after the 1976 election returned a third Social Conservative victory and a seventh popular vote victory for the party, and they agreed to a merger to form Reform.
Vol. 8: The Modern Society (published 2018) is the last book in the series [despite calls to cover the left-wing nationalist tendency] and deals with Democratic Choice, the left-wing coalition between the Radical Party, the Green Party and the Reform Party (pre-1999), and ultimately an unitary party, with the merger just managed to get in the book before it was released for publishing.
The Exchange led to millions dying due to nuclear blasts, and thousands more to anthrax attacks in places like New England, and America was angry at the Social Conservatives. In this, many turned to radical solutions offered by the Radical Party, but also by the American Union of Fascists and the theocratic Salvation Party, along with the hardline national-populist America First Party. The Green Party was originally established by Artemis Fowl, former Social Conservative vice-president and overall ambitious so-and-so. Shaken by the exchange, he shifted left in beliefs and argued for a radical environmentalist agenda, but he was too "establishment" for angry Americans and he sensed it too. Hence he went cap-in-hand to the Radicals and negotiated an united ticket and an electoral pact, the very beginning of Democratic Choice.
The Radical Tadeo Murillo won a victory in 1984 based on popular anger and a desire for serious change from the Social Conservatives, and he, well, he didn't really deliver. The economy, already at Great Depression levels from the Exchange, failed to recover while the America First controlled Congress obstructed Murillo's more socialist bills, leading to frustration from his side. And then the right-wing went too far. Governor Jim Buckley of Louisiana decided that Murillo was a fundamental danger to America and must be removed at once and America put under the control of a "National Salvation Government" led by General Alexander Freeman-Smalls (the 1984 America First nominee). The coup attempt failed, and Buckley doubled down by declaring national rebellion against the "socialist government". He was allied with Salvation Party leader and incredibly paranoid pastor Jack Stevenson who declared a "Holy Union of America" in the Plains. America, already dealing with the effects of a nuclear exchange and one of the worst depressions ever, now was thrown in civil war. And then if things couldn't get any worse, Murillo was assassinated by a NSG agent in 1987.
Handing power to the Green Arya Moon, who was inaugurated in the worst situation possible. Surprisingly enough for someone known to have taken hard drugs barely a few years before, she deftly dealt with the NSG and before the next election Jim Buckley was dead and the NSG reduced to a bunch of disunited terrorist cabals. The economy recovered due to her reformist policies, and she won a landslide in 1988, which she decided would be a mandate for a radical left-wing reform of the country which she dubbed her "Modern Society". This included universal healthcare, social security, a national living wage, disability rights, and perhaps most consequential of all, a constitutional convention that reformed America into a semi-presidential system with a First Secretary as a Prime Minister.
Of course, all this success can't go by without two foreign policy controversies. The first was the trade deal with Qatar, now taken over by an ultra-libertarian hippie cult, that many now allege was the reason their party in America endorsed her in 1988 and 1992 and supported her party in congressional coalitions despite it making absolutely no ideological sense. The trade deal included a fair few "investments" in the Qatari economy that essentially and ironically made the libertarian "utopia" a state-funded experiment heavily reliant on United States dollars.
The second foreign policy controversy would be the most damaging to President Moon. Eastern Europe was heavily damaged by the Exchange and radical German supremacist organisations seeking to wipe out non-Germans were on the rise, so President Moon got Congress' authorisation for military intervention. Acutely aware that it could prove her downfall, she managed the intervention half-heartedly and allowed the radical supremacists to push away American troops and make the situation even worse than it ever was. With coffins returning, the American people decided to call time on Arya Moon and deny her a third term [which she was eligible for, technically] in 1992.
With the Democratic Choice coalition now out of power, they rallied behind non-interventionism and opposed Moon's successor who betrayed her promise of isolationism in favour of amping the war up and "winning it for good". In the end, former Reformist and now Green Patty Allen won the Presidency in 1996 and promptly withdrew troops from Eastern Europe, which Americans decided was too much of a hassle to deal with. Patty Allen was a firm social-liberal and without Moon's hang-ups about going too liberal when she thought she needed to be a national unifying figure, and so she implemented wide-spreading social reforms and oversaw the economy recover more and more.
Then the Canadians invaded.
The 2000 election proved a strong Democratic Choice victory thanks to the Canadian War turning into the Americans' favour just in time for Allen. She oversaw the economy weaken in her second term, which many attested to it being a boom for too long, but it wasn't a severe recession at least. The Democrats won 2004 with General Robert Cermak, a Green, who won in a landslide. Clearly, there was a permanent Democratic majority!
And then the Democrats fell into infighting, Cermak left the party to run independent and a Radical was nominated for the first time which led to DC losing 2008 to the moderate-conservative Rally for the Republic. In opposition for the first time in 12 years, the Democrats rallied the best they could and under the Radical John Malone, the Democrats adopted a new platform, that of firmly socially-liberal socialism, not the old Green socially-liberal economic-reformism nor the old Radical socially-conservative economic-socialism. And that led the two to increasingly consider a merger.
By the 2016 election, there was still a distinction between a Radical and a Green, but it was a difference of shade, not of kind. Najat Belkacem, their 2016 nominee, was a firm "Moonite", strongly believing in Moon's Modern Society. By 2018, the parties voted to merge as one to present a fully united alternative to President Bennett and Our Millennium.
The Exchange led to millions dying due to nuclear blasts, and thousands more to anthrax attacks in places like New England, and America was angry at the Social Conservatives. In this, many turned to radical solutions offered by the Radical Party, but also by the American Union of Fascists and the theocratic Salvation Party, along with the hardline national-populist America First Party. The Green Party was originally established by Artemis Fowl, former Social Conservative vice-president and overall ambitious so-and-so. Shaken by the exchange, he shifted left in beliefs and argued for a radical environmentalist agenda, but he was too "establishment" for angry Americans and he sensed it too. Hence he went cap-in-hand to the Radicals and negotiated an united ticket and an electoral pact, the very beginning of Democratic Choice.
The Radical Tadeo Murillo won a victory in 1984 based on popular anger and a desire for serious change from the Social Conservatives, and he, well, he didn't really deliver. The economy, already at Great Depression levels from the Exchange, failed to recover while the America First controlled Congress obstructed Murillo's more socialist bills, leading to frustration from his side. And then the right-wing went too far. Governor Jim Buckley of Louisiana decided that Murillo was a fundamental danger to America and must be removed at once and America put under the control of a "National Salvation Government" led by General Alexander Freeman-Smalls (the 1984 America First nominee). The coup attempt failed, and Buckley doubled down by declaring national rebellion against the "socialist government". He was allied with Salvation Party leader and incredibly paranoid pastor Jack Stevenson who declared a "Holy Union of America" in the Plains. America, already dealing with the effects of a nuclear exchange and one of the worst depressions ever, now was thrown in civil war. And then if things couldn't get any worse, Murillo was assassinated by a NSG agent in 1987.
Handing power to the Green Arya Moon, who was inaugurated in the worst situation possible. Surprisingly enough for someone known to have taken hard drugs barely a few years before, she deftly dealt with the NSG and before the next election Jim Buckley was dead and the NSG reduced to a bunch of disunited terrorist cabals. The economy recovered due to her reformist policies, and she won a landslide in 1988, which she decided would be a mandate for a radical left-wing reform of the country which she dubbed her "Modern Society". This included universal healthcare, social security, a national living wage, disability rights, and perhaps most consequential of all, a constitutional convention that reformed America into a semi-presidential system with a First Secretary as a Prime Minister.
Of course, all this success can't go by without two foreign policy controversies. The first was the trade deal with Qatar, now taken over by an ultra-libertarian hippie cult, that many now allege was the reason their party in America endorsed her in 1988 and 1992 and supported her party in congressional coalitions despite it making absolutely no ideological sense. The trade deal included a fair few "investments" in the Qatari economy that essentially and ironically made the libertarian "utopia" a state-funded experiment heavily reliant on United States dollars.
The second foreign policy controversy would be the most damaging to President Moon. Eastern Europe was heavily damaged by the Exchange and radical German supremacist organisations seeking to wipe out non-Germans were on the rise, so President Moon got Congress' authorisation for military intervention. Acutely aware that it could prove her downfall, she managed the intervention half-heartedly and allowed the radical supremacists to push away American troops and make the situation even worse than it ever was. With coffins returning, the American people decided to call time on Arya Moon and deny her a third term [which she was eligible for, technically] in 1992.
With the Democratic Choice coalition now out of power, they rallied behind non-interventionism and opposed Moon's successor who betrayed her promise of isolationism in favour of amping the war up and "winning it for good". In the end, former Reformist and now Green Patty Allen won the Presidency in 1996 and promptly withdrew troops from Eastern Europe, which Americans decided was too much of a hassle to deal with. Patty Allen was a firm social-liberal and without Moon's hang-ups about going too liberal when she thought she needed to be a national unifying figure, and so she implemented wide-spreading social reforms and oversaw the economy recover more and more.
Then the Canadians invaded.
The 2000 election proved a strong Democratic Choice victory thanks to the Canadian War turning into the Americans' favour just in time for Allen. She oversaw the economy weaken in her second term, which many attested to it being a boom for too long, but it wasn't a severe recession at least. The Democrats won 2004 with General Robert Cermak, a Green, who won in a landslide. Clearly, there was a permanent Democratic majority!
And then the Democrats fell into infighting, Cermak left the party to run independent and a Radical was nominated for the first time which led to DC losing 2008 to the moderate-conservative Rally for the Republic. In opposition for the first time in 12 years, the Democrats rallied the best they could and under the Radical John Malone, the Democrats adopted a new platform, that of firmly socially-liberal socialism, not the old Green socially-liberal economic-reformism nor the old Radical socially-conservative economic-socialism. And that led the two to increasingly consider a merger.
By the 2016 election, there was still a distinction between a Radical and a Green, but it was a difference of shade, not of kind. Najat Belkacem, their 2016 nominee, was a firm "Moonite", strongly believing in Moon's Modern Society. By 2018, the parties voted to merge as one to present a fully united alternative to President Bennett and Our Millennium.
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