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It's a toy idea I've had for a while where, instead of having presidential elections, a Senator is randomly chosen at the start of each Congress to serve as President, and a member of the House is randomly chosen to serve as Vice President.
Do the opposite. That makes more sense because 1. It prevents small states from having a disproportional amount of influence. 2. The Vice President is already the senate president.
I solved it. Besides, can I save my sandbox works in something like drafts and beginning working on a new one?
Since we're asking about Wikibox tips here, I have two questions of my own:
- To get that "Table of Contents" box that every wiki article has, do I need to hit the "Publish" button on the Sandbox?
- I have weird gaps on my Albionic Church article between the italicized "See More" lines and the meat of the written segments, which has the prompt "New Paragraph" there when I hover my cursor over it. Does that also go away when the Sandbox is saved?
Sounds good, I definitely have more than 4.
I'm away from my computer atm, but I'll get on that soon.
Here's a list of Israeli Prime Ministers from my story, On The Verge of Greatness - Life In Digby’s Britain.
The History of Israel
In the late 1800s, a Zionist movement spawned. Led by Theodore Herzl, the movement supported immigration to Ottoman-controlled Palestine. During the World War, the Balfour Declaration was issued, advocating for “a national home for the Jewish people.” Three Aliyahs, or waves of Jewish immigration, occurred between 1919 and 1939. This migration was spurred on by the Russian revolutions, Eastern pogroms, and the anti-Semitic Stahlhelm coming to power in Germany. In 1937, due to unrest by the Arab population, the British government established the Peel Commission, which recommended partitioning the mandate of Palestine into a Jewish state, an Arab state, and holy areas. While the Zionist leadership were disappointed they did not receive all the land they wanted and the Arab leadership rejected the commission, Prime Minister Lansbury went ahead with the plan.
While many arrived after Israel gained its independence, the Anti-Bolshevik War provided the greatest wave of Jewish immigration. The German government believed that Jews were loyal to the Soviet Union, and harassed Jewish populations into leaving the country. In the former Soviet Union, many fled due to the war and internal instability. Over the course of the war, Russia dealt with the death of Stalin, the genocidal dictatorship of Lavrentiy Beria, the warlord period, and the ascension of Pyotr Kransov. With the support of Soviet refugees, the Mapam movement won the 1942 elections, defeating “father of the nation” David Ben-Gurion.
Prime Minister Moshe Sneh invited exiled revolutionary Leon Trotsky to the country. While Trotsky did not hold any official role (other than the six-star equivalent Rav aluf), he did have a hugely integral role in drafting the Revolutionary Constitution and crushing the German-backed Irgun revolts. As the only post-1945 communist leader, Sneh had few friends on the world stage, though he established cordial relations with China’s anarchist Kuomintang. Many countries across the world began to view their Jewish populations as having hidden loyalties to Israel and revolutionary Trotskyism.
Israel's proudest military intervention came in 1954, when Israeli soldiers liberated Ethiopia after the collapse of fascism in Italy. While the returning emperor Haile Selassie was killed by Italian colonists, revolutionaries united Ethiopia into a pan-African Rastafari state. This new government was deeply influenced by Trotskyism, with many Beata Israeli coming back to the homeland to teach their comrades of Israel’s ways. While communist guerrillas in mainland Italy were less successful, the war established great cultural ties between Israeli and Ethiopia.
Leon Trotsky’s death in 1958 was widely mourned by Jews and communists around the world. After the death of Trotsky, Sneh used nationalist Zionism to retain the party’s hold onto power. While Israel slowly gained many allies, such as Ethiopia, Republican Libya, and King Sihanouk’s socialist Cambodia, tensions increased with the Hashemite Arab Federation and Nationalist Syria over the status of British-occupied religious sites. Despite pressure from Russia (who sought to create a Third Rome in the Middle East), PM Geoffrey Bing refused to end the British mandate over the holy sites, showing solidarity with his Israeli comrades.
Sneh died in 1972, succeeded by the more moderate Hannah Lamdan. Lamdan recognized that a struggle between Israel and the Hashemites could be near; a struggle that would prove costly for the Jewish people. Her tenure led to unrest amongst industrial workers, who were opposed to the opening of Israeli trade with foreign powers. In 1980, she was removed by radical factions within Mapam, who put into place Joe Flexer. Flexer was born in the United States, and was CPUSA activist in Brooklyn. At the age of 17, he made Aliyah and joined the Israeli military. His service in Ethiopia inspired the country, with Sneh parading him as a model revolutionary. Flexer’s orthodox Trotskyist faction quickly grew until he was able to remove Lamdan from power during the malice period.
The Flexer years saw Israel regain its policy of internationalism and pushed towards a fully communist society. Unprecedented economic growth took place, and the nation’s friendship with China finally paid off. Before the end of the decade, the ROC became the largest economy, overtaking the United States. Chinese infrastructure and consumer products came to Israel; while the nation had a previously self-sufficient economy, Chinese investment allowed Israel to reach new heights.
Flexer’s death in 2000 was widely mourned across the world. His successor was Shlomo Bohbot, the first Morccoan Jew to lead the country, was a popular civil servant whose tenure in government dated back to the Sneh era. Bohbot was focused on developing futuristic technology, though the Israeli economy stagnated near the end of this tenure. His oppressive government clamped down on opposition groups and protests, and launched a purge of supposed Russian infiltration into the civil service.
In 2018, mass protests erupted, calling for Bohbot’s resignation after an economic downturn. While conservative elements in the military were co-operative in taking down supposed counter-revolutionaries, the Young Officers Movement quickly established control of the country. While their leader, Brace Belden, was attacked as an ultra-leftist or a Bonapartist, his leadership was quickly recognized by an election to the Knesset. Belden’s strict interpretation of Trotskyism sought to return Israel to revolutionary discipline. Belden received a mass rally around the flag effort after surviving a Russian-backed assassination attempt, allowing him to pass his “21st Century Trotskyism” agenda. Controversially, his government has launched investigations into the lives of German and Russian oligarchs, revealing sex trafficking networks run by business elites.
Israel is one of three communist countries, though it does not maintain cordial relations with the other two. Bolivia is controlled by Posadists, leaving it isolated from the rest of the world. Belden is firmly opposed to South Africa's government, whose apartheid government operates under the slogan "Workers of the world, unite and fight for a white South Africa!" While still Trotskyist, Israel is much closer to the Chinese sphere of influence, which includes countries like Ghana, Equatorial Africa, Greece, and Cambodia.
(I couldn't find a photo of Flexer, but Dustin Hoffman worked as a stand-in)
The History of Israel
In the late 1800s, a Zionist movement spawned. Led by Theodore Herzl, the movement supported immigration to Ottoman-controlled Palestine. During the World War, the Balfour Declaration was issued, advocating for “a national home for the Jewish people.” Three Aliyahs, or waves of Jewish immigration, occurred between 1919 and 1939. This migration was spurred on by the Russian revolutions, Eastern pogroms, and the anti-Semitic Stahlhelm coming to power in Germany. In 1937, due to unrest by the Arab population, the British government established the Peel Commission, which recommended partitioning the mandate of Palestine into a Jewish state, an Arab state, and holy areas. While the Zionist leadership were disappointed they did not receive all the land they wanted and the Arab leadership rejected the commission, Prime Minister Lansbury went ahead with the plan.
While many arrived after Israel gained its independence, the Anti-Bolshevik War provided the greatest wave of Jewish immigration. The German government believed that Jews were loyal to the Soviet Union, and harassed Jewish populations into leaving the country. In the former Soviet Union, many fled due to the war and internal instability. Over the course of the war, Russia dealt with the death of Stalin, the genocidal dictatorship of Lavrentiy Beria, the warlord period, and the ascension of Pyotr Kransov. With the support of Soviet refugees, the Mapam movement won the 1942 elections, defeating “father of the nation” David Ben-Gurion.
Prime Minister Moshe Sneh invited exiled revolutionary Leon Trotsky to the country. While Trotsky did not hold any official role (other than the six-star equivalent Rav aluf), he did have a hugely integral role in drafting the Revolutionary Constitution and crushing the German-backed Irgun revolts. As the only post-1945 communist leader, Sneh had few friends on the world stage, though he established cordial relations with China’s anarchist Kuomintang. Many countries across the world began to view their Jewish populations as having hidden loyalties to Israel and revolutionary Trotskyism.
Israel's proudest military intervention came in 1954, when Israeli soldiers liberated Ethiopia after the collapse of fascism in Italy. While the returning emperor Haile Selassie was killed by Italian colonists, revolutionaries united Ethiopia into a pan-African Rastafari state. This new government was deeply influenced by Trotskyism, with many Beata Israeli coming back to the homeland to teach their comrades of Israel’s ways. While communist guerrillas in mainland Italy were less successful, the war established great cultural ties between Israeli and Ethiopia.
Leon Trotsky’s death in 1958 was widely mourned by Jews and communists around the world. After the death of Trotsky, Sneh used nationalist Zionism to retain the party’s hold onto power. While Israel slowly gained many allies, such as Ethiopia, Republican Libya, and King Sihanouk’s socialist Cambodia, tensions increased with the Hashemite Arab Federation and Nationalist Syria over the status of British-occupied religious sites. Despite pressure from Russia (who sought to create a Third Rome in the Middle East), PM Geoffrey Bing refused to end the British mandate over the holy sites, showing solidarity with his Israeli comrades.
Sneh died in 1972, succeeded by the more moderate Hannah Lamdan. Lamdan recognized that a struggle between Israel and the Hashemites could be near; a struggle that would prove costly for the Jewish people. Her tenure led to unrest amongst industrial workers, who were opposed to the opening of Israeli trade with foreign powers. In 1980, she was removed by radical factions within Mapam, who put into place Joe Flexer. Flexer was born in the United States, and was CPUSA activist in Brooklyn. At the age of 17, he made Aliyah and joined the Israeli military. His service in Ethiopia inspired the country, with Sneh parading him as a model revolutionary. Flexer’s orthodox Trotskyist faction quickly grew until he was able to remove Lamdan from power during the malice period.
The Flexer years saw Israel regain its policy of internationalism and pushed towards a fully communist society. Unprecedented economic growth took place, and the nation’s friendship with China finally paid off. Before the end of the decade, the ROC became the largest economy, overtaking the United States. Chinese infrastructure and consumer products came to Israel; while the nation had a previously self-sufficient economy, Chinese investment allowed Israel to reach new heights.
Flexer’s death in 2000 was widely mourned across the world. His successor was Shlomo Bohbot, the first Morccoan Jew to lead the country, was a popular civil servant whose tenure in government dated back to the Sneh era. Bohbot was focused on developing futuristic technology, though the Israeli economy stagnated near the end of this tenure. His oppressive government clamped down on opposition groups and protests, and launched a purge of supposed Russian infiltration into the civil service.
In 2018, mass protests erupted, calling for Bohbot’s resignation after an economic downturn. While conservative elements in the military were co-operative in taking down supposed counter-revolutionaries, the Young Officers Movement quickly established control of the country. While their leader, Brace Belden, was attacked as an ultra-leftist or a Bonapartist, his leadership was quickly recognized by an election to the Knesset. Belden’s strict interpretation of Trotskyism sought to return Israel to revolutionary discipline. Belden received a mass rally around the flag effort after surviving a Russian-backed assassination attempt, allowing him to pass his “21st Century Trotskyism” agenda. Controversially, his government has launched investigations into the lives of German and Russian oligarchs, revealing sex trafficking networks run by business elites.
Israel is one of three communist countries, though it does not maintain cordial relations with the other two. Bolivia is controlled by Posadists, leaving it isolated from the rest of the world. Belden is firmly opposed to South Africa's government, whose apartheid government operates under the slogan "Workers of the world, unite and fight for a white South Africa!" While still Trotskyist, Israel is much closer to the Chinese sphere of influence, which includes countries like Ghana, Equatorial Africa, Greece, and Cambodia.
(I couldn't find a photo of Flexer, but Dustin Hoffman worked as a stand-in)
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Cooper Thorpe is a Member of the Imperial Parliament, representing the Stanford and Berkley Universities constituency. Having first been elected to Parliament in 1977, he is also the current Father of the House. Incidentally, when he was first elected, he was also the Baby of the House at the age of 24. He'd been a doctoral candidate at the University of Berkley when the two Californian universities of Stanford and Berkley were granted their own university constituency. His candidacy had been more of a joke than anything, and his election was a surprise to everyone--himself included. Over the 50 years he's sat in Parliament, Thorpe has evolved to become a well-respected parliamentarian, though he's still as irreverent as ever. He refuses to wear a suit and tie, and hasn't attended a State Opening of Parliament since being removed from the 1981 opening for dressing up as a character from the Crash Comet film series.
Thorpe was originally elected as an independent, and currently runs on an Independent Republican party line and sits with the Plural Left in the House of Commons. He is an avowed republican, and has been a harsh critic of the civil list and the government's continued spending to support the Tudor Dynasty. He has criticized the way the House limits backbenchers and non-majority MPs from being able to enact legislation. He has called for the abolition of university and functional constituencies (including his own), supports universal suffrage coupled with a one-man, one-vote principal. Despite his rather radical views, he has had some legislative success, with the most prominent being the Ninth Amendment to the Education Act of 1986, which prohibits discrimination based on sex in co-educational secondary and post-secondary institutions, and requires that schools spend equally on male and female students. He also chaired the Parliamentary inquiry into campus sexual assault. He's indicated that he intends to run again at the next general election.
In addition to regular geographic constituencies, the House of Commons include university, functional and armed services constituencies. The university constituencies give direct representation to the oldest and most elite universities in the British Empire, while functional constituencies allow anyone who is employed to cast a ballot regardless of whether or not they're a property owner. All active and separated members of the Armed Forces and the Royal Corps of Mounted Police elect MPs as part of the armed services constituencies--each of the Armed Forces get three MPs and the RCMP gets one. This system allows for someone to be able to cast four votes in a single election with relative ease.
The Business and Finance Functional Constituency is often referred to as the "Constituency of The City and Manhattan" because of the high concentration of voters in the City of London and Manhattan. It currently elects five MPs who, like all functional constituencies, elects members based on a single transferable vote system. The Conservative Coalition has had the top two candidates in four out of five elections since the constituency was expanded to five seats in 2005. Currently the Tories hold three of the five seats while the Liberals only hold one, with the fifth seat going to the Lord Octavius Leong, Viscount Bonham Strand, the son and heir of the Marquess of Belcher Bay and scion of the Leong family who founded and owns the SuperShopper chain of retail stores. The Business and Finance Functional Constituency often elects the sons and heirs of some of the richest and most powerful peers in the Empire to give them the opportunity to gain some Parliamentary experience before taking their father's seat in the Lords.
The Sun Never Set
Black Friday Bombings / King-Emperor John II
Friedrich Wilhelm, Crown Prince of Prussia / Congress of Atomic Powers
Most-liked shouts
Parliament of the British Empire / Counsellors of State
Landgravine Guinevere of Pusan / Margrave Mordred II of Choseon
Eugen Flegel Graf von Weiser / Empress Anna Victoria
Maria Luisa of Provence
House of Tudor-Mercia: Constantine I, Constantine II, Catherine, Joanna, Michael
The Marquess of Lynedoch
Arthur, Prince of Wales / Rudolph, King of the English
Leaders of the Congress of Atomic Powers
Tetrarchs of the Kingdom of Palestine
Ludwig XV, Grand Duke of Hesse-Darmstadt / Friederike of Hesse Darmstadt
FV201 Lancelot UCT, MV25 Timberwolf IFV, CV1 Cerberus ICV / The Grenadier Guards and Royal Natal Carbineers
Aircraft carriers of the world
Grand Council of the Michigan Confederation
20th and 21st century monarchs of the British Empire
Prussian Fatherland Front
Steppengrave Charles Albert of Nebraska / Ambrose Bingham, Viscount Lorton
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One of those senators also fell in a scandal that exposed himself as a hypocrite. Was it the same one?
Don't think so, the one on there who's Senator for my state is Gary Peters and I haven't heard a single news headline about him since he got elected lol
Mostly with millions of independents staying again from the ballot box in November.
BTW, I picked Barron as a bit of an in-joke. He and Perot are political allies in A Giant Sucking Sound.
Oh. Well my listed location which shows up on all my posts says Michigan, soooo
I like how Ernie Chambers exists in some form in all of your TLs.
Blatant cross-posting from my TL A Perfect Democracy: The World that Huey Made.
Michael Sanchez, Mary McClintok
Despite enjoying comfortable majorities in both houses of Congress, the Democrats are facing a crossroads. The economic slowdown of the past year has resulted in President Alec Reed and the Democratic congress facing steep decline in approval rating. With the Democrats on track for at least losing the House, a broader struggle within the party has emerged over its direction post-Reed. The sitting president has attempted to maintain power with a foot in both the moderate and Longist camps, pleasing neither. As the primaries shape up, two, relatively young candidates emerge on opposite ends of a widening chasm. Only time will tell if the victor leads the traditional party of power to success or simply manage the decline.
Michael Enrique Sanchez was born on June 12, 1969 in Fresno, California to an upcoming middle class hispanic family. In the late 1980's, he attended Stanford University, graduating with a bachelor's in political science. In the 1990's, he began teaching at a local community college in Sacramento while acting as a political activist for the California Democratic Party. In 2002, he became the youngest mayor in Sacramento's history, having won on a platform of making Sacramento a more business-friendly city and using new revenue to fund much needed social services. Despite the brevity of his term, he proved to be very popular, landing him the sixth congressional district seat for California in 2004. Having spent nearly a decade in Congress, he ran for governor, unseating the deeply unpopular Alliance governor Karl Schumer. He's proven to be very popular, attempting to maintain a delicate balance between business interests and a generous welfare state.
Sanchez hails from the moderate wing of the Democratic Party, a group which grew in strength following the popular presidency of Helen Marshall in the late 80's and early 90's. This group seeks to encourage economic growth and social liberalism, moving away from the more religious base that made up the Long coalition. As such, Sanchez's relationship with the Longist wing of the party has been strained at best. The Share Our Wealth Society notably declined to endorse him in his reelection bid in 2018, a move which proved embarrassing when Sanchez won in a landslide. His supporters have touted him as a consensus figure able to cross the aisle to achieve common sense solutions, as he has during his tenure as governor. However, Sanchez is not without his flaws. His relaxed style has led to a number of gaffs, including those of a sexual nature. While many of his supporters believe that Sanchez is still the most electorally viable candidate to go against the relatively popular Andrew Davis next year, his shrinking lead in the weeks leading up to next year's primary demonstrates the uphill battle that still lays ahead for him.
Mary Elinor Lind McClintok, born in 1980 in Waco Texas, has the potential of being the youngest elected President of the United States at forty-years of age. Like her main rival, McClintok enjoyed a rapid rise in prominence. Hailing from a devoutly Baptist (and Longist) household, she attended Baylor University, graduating with a degree pre-law before going on to graduate with a juris doctorate from Harvard. She served as a lawyer for the Share Our Wealth Society, which later saw her becoming Solicitor General for almost a year during Reed's first term in office. She left her position in order to run for the Senate to replace the old Alliance stalwart Bob Ewing, and enjoyed the full support of the Share Our Wealth Society. Recently, she has decline to run for another term, instead focusing on her campaign for president.
McClintok appeals mainly to the religious, diehard Longist wing of the Democratic Party which is skeptical of economic liberalism and opposes proposed privitzation schemes of the railroads or hospitals. Her passionate, and sometimes fiery oratory has often resulted in her speeches going viral on websites such as INTV and other social media sites. She has also amounted a sizable cult following among younger Share Our Wealth activists. However, this has also resulted in a fairly large "hate-following," being mocked by Alliance supporters. Some Democrats fear that her controversial methods may turn off potential swing voters. Nevertheless, she continues to appeal to a wing of the party that feels betrayed by the moderation of Reed and distrustful of the "wobbliness" of Sanchez. She finds herself catching up to Sanchez, and may even overtake him. Whether or not she is able to save both Longism AND the Democratic Party remains to be seen.
Michael Sanchez, Mary McClintok
Despite enjoying comfortable majorities in both houses of Congress, the Democrats are facing a crossroads. The economic slowdown of the past year has resulted in President Alec Reed and the Democratic congress facing steep decline in approval rating. With the Democrats on track for at least losing the House, a broader struggle within the party has emerged over its direction post-Reed. The sitting president has attempted to maintain power with a foot in both the moderate and Longist camps, pleasing neither. As the primaries shape up, two, relatively young candidates emerge on opposite ends of a widening chasm. Only time will tell if the victor leads the traditional party of power to success or simply manage the decline.
Michael Enrique Sanchez was born on June 12, 1969 in Fresno, California to an upcoming middle class hispanic family. In the late 1980's, he attended Stanford University, graduating with a bachelor's in political science. In the 1990's, he began teaching at a local community college in Sacramento while acting as a political activist for the California Democratic Party. In 2002, he became the youngest mayor in Sacramento's history, having won on a platform of making Sacramento a more business-friendly city and using new revenue to fund much needed social services. Despite the brevity of his term, he proved to be very popular, landing him the sixth congressional district seat for California in 2004. Having spent nearly a decade in Congress, he ran for governor, unseating the deeply unpopular Alliance governor Karl Schumer. He's proven to be very popular, attempting to maintain a delicate balance between business interests and a generous welfare state.
Sanchez hails from the moderate wing of the Democratic Party, a group which grew in strength following the popular presidency of Helen Marshall in the late 80's and early 90's. This group seeks to encourage economic growth and social liberalism, moving away from the more religious base that made up the Long coalition. As such, Sanchez's relationship with the Longist wing of the party has been strained at best. The Share Our Wealth Society notably declined to endorse him in his reelection bid in 2018, a move which proved embarrassing when Sanchez won in a landslide. His supporters have touted him as a consensus figure able to cross the aisle to achieve common sense solutions, as he has during his tenure as governor. However, Sanchez is not without his flaws. His relaxed style has led to a number of gaffs, including those of a sexual nature. While many of his supporters believe that Sanchez is still the most electorally viable candidate to go against the relatively popular Andrew Davis next year, his shrinking lead in the weeks leading up to next year's primary demonstrates the uphill battle that still lays ahead for him.
Mary Elinor Lind McClintok, born in 1980 in Waco Texas, has the potential of being the youngest elected President of the United States at forty-years of age. Like her main rival, McClintok enjoyed a rapid rise in prominence. Hailing from a devoutly Baptist (and Longist) household, she attended Baylor University, graduating with a degree pre-law before going on to graduate with a juris doctorate from Harvard. She served as a lawyer for the Share Our Wealth Society, which later saw her becoming Solicitor General for almost a year during Reed's first term in office. She left her position in order to run for the Senate to replace the old Alliance stalwart Bob Ewing, and enjoyed the full support of the Share Our Wealth Society. Recently, she has decline to run for another term, instead focusing on her campaign for president.
McClintok appeals mainly to the religious, diehard Longist wing of the Democratic Party which is skeptical of economic liberalism and opposes proposed privitzation schemes of the railroads or hospitals. Her passionate, and sometimes fiery oratory has often resulted in her speeches going viral on websites such as INTV and other social media sites. She has also amounted a sizable cult following among younger Share Our Wealth activists. However, this has also resulted in a fairly large "hate-following," being mocked by Alliance supporters. Some Democrats fear that her controversial methods may turn off potential swing voters. Nevertheless, she continues to appeal to a wing of the party that feels betrayed by the moderation of Reed and distrustful of the "wobbliness" of Sanchez. She finds herself catching up to Sanchez, and may even overtake him. Whether or not she is able to save both Longism AND the Democratic Party remains to be seen.
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