Alternate Wikipedia Infoboxes V (Do Not Post Current Politics Here)
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Well if it's directly elected by Congress, then it's very likely to become a partisan position and one elected by a small elite. Directly electing the head of state gives the person a unique legitimacy as being above politics.
We can only dreamSo if Iceland is in the US, that means...
President Robbie Rotten!
The politics of the Far Eastern Republic, while hardly authoritarian or particularly corrupt, are considerably fractious. Having been carved from Russia following the Third World War as a buffer state, partly due to considerable hand-wringing between China and the United States, the Far Eastern Republic covered a region which even before the War was extremely sparsely populated. As the Wei Recovery Program was implemented, the native population soon had to contend with large groups of immigrants - chiefly from China, Japan, Central Asia, Bangladesh and North America.
By 2067, two informal electoral groups have emerged: the "Washington Bloc", aligned with the United States and its allies, and (more broadly speaking) the West, and the "Harbin Bloc", more closely aligned with the People's Republic of China. As of the sixth convocation, the Harbin Bloc is in government, although it does not hold a majority on its own (despite the sheer prominence of the Social Democrats and the Progressive Alliance) and had to court the recently-formed Party of Regions in order to form a coalition govenrment. The Washington Bloc waits for 2070, hoping to capitalize on the Social Democrats and Progressives' rivalry and make up for its meager results in the 2066 general election.
By 2067, two informal electoral groups have emerged: the "Washington Bloc", aligned with the United States and its allies, and (more broadly speaking) the West, and the "Harbin Bloc", more closely aligned with the People's Republic of China. As of the sixth convocation, the Harbin Bloc is in government, although it does not hold a majority on its own (despite the sheer prominence of the Social Democrats and the Progressive Alliance) and had to court the recently-formed Party of Regions in order to form a coalition govenrment. The Washington Bloc waits for 2070, hoping to capitalize on the Social Democrats and Progressives' rivalry and make up for its meager results in the 2066 general election.
| Party in parliament | Bloc | Ideology |
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| Far Eastern Social Democratic Labour Party, FESDLP (Дальневосточная социал-демократическая рабочая партия, ДВСДРП) | Harbin Bloc | Social democracy, democratic socialism, left-wing nationalism, social conservatism (factions) |
| Progressive Alliance (Прогрессивный Альянс) | Harbin Bloc | Catch-all, centrism, statism, Chinese minority interests |
| Revival – People's Movement for Social Justice (Возрождение – Народное движение за социальную справедливость) | Harbin Bloc | Social democracy, social conservatism, populism, agrarianism, Far Eastern nationalism, Christian left (faction) |
| Party of Regions (Партия регионов) | unaligned (alliance with the Harbin Bloc) | Catch-all, centrism, regionalism, Buryat nationalism (faction) |
| Republican Front of the Far East (Республиканский фронт Дальнего Востока) | Washington Bloc | Catch-all, liberal conservatism, Far Eastern nationalism |
| Far Eastern Movement for Liberty (Дальневосточное движение за свободу) | Washington Bloc | Populism, libertarianism, economic liberalism, Far Eastern nationalism, Amero-Canadian minority interests |
| Thaw – Union of Far Eastern Democrats (Оттепель – Союз дальневосточных демократов) | Washington Bloc | Social liberalism, social progressivism, environmentalism, feminism |
| Christian Democrats of the Far East (Христианские демократы Дальнего Востока) | Washington Bloc | Christian democracy, economic liberalism, national conservatism (faction) |
| Party of the People's Will (Партия народной воли) | unaligned | Russian nationalism, right-wing populism, national conservatism, Amerophobia, Sinophobia |
| Communist Party of the Far East (Коммунистическая партия Дальнего Востока) | unaligned | Communism, Marxism-Leninism, social conservatism, anti-revisionism, Amerophobia, Sinophobia |
| Aikya (Айкья) | unaligned | Social democracy, environmentalism, left-wing populism, Indian minority interests, Islamic democracy (faction) |
| Free East (Вольный Восток) | unaligned | Left-libertarianism, pirate politics, syndicalism, Far Eastern nationalism, anarchism (faction) |
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Digging in the archives for something else, I found this old piece, that I put together for a writing project.
'Dynamite Bill' is definitely an evocative nickname, I guess he really couldn't have been much of a pacifist in this timeline. He also lives longer and has the wrong children, and has named two of them after virtues/mythical Americana, so there's that. At the distance of five years, I no longer know quite what I was thinking, and it's a tiny bit disturbing to think I have been doing this long enough to have done something five years ago.
'Dynamite Bill' is definitely an evocative nickname, I guess he really couldn't have been much of a pacifist in this timeline. He also lives longer and has the wrong children, and has named two of them after virtues/mythical Americana, so there's that. At the distance of five years, I no longer know quite what I was thinking, and it's a tiny bit disturbing to think I have been doing this long enough to have done something five years ago.
If you ever find yourself in America and find that the conversation's dying out, just say "Blagojevich" and watch the carnage. For most he's at best a national embarrassment and politics at its worst and possible even a criminal mastermind with a body count in the hundreds. And that's not an inaccurate take (okay, probably not the last part, probably), very few people who's opinions matter would say say that his administration wasn't an ultra-corrupt bonanza whose pettiness would've made Spiro Agnew blush. But that's not the whole story. There are a lot places, and not only in Chicago, where repeating the above is likely to get your teeth kicked in. There, Blago is a champion for working people done in by the powers that be and stabbed in the back by his own Vice President, the [explicit deleted] Reed. That Reed pardoned his predecessor the day he recieved his sentencing have done him very few favors, and even if he survives Senator Fiegen's primary challenge things aren't looking good for November.
Rod Blagojevich is rumored to be preparing for a run for his old governorship. Early polling have him as the clear favorite in the Democratic primary and in a dead heath with Governor Rauner.
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Is there a more leftist tendency in Texas? Like are there any leftist parties?Presidents of the Republic of Texas
Texas has a two-party system, so the Liberals tend to be very broad ideologically like the Democrats in OTL. And, the Liberals do have a considerable further left-wing faction. Today, any other parties are very small and nearly irrelevant to the overall government process. The Republic of Texas is more left-wing overall than TX, OK, and NM together in OTL, but still definitely leans more conservative than average. Especially in the past couple decades where the Democrats have mostly dominated national politics.
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