New Deal Coalition Retained: A Sixth Party System Wikibox Timeline

Kaiser Chris

Kaiser Chris

Jabberjay said:
My dad would be in collage around now so he will most likely be drafted in WW3. He's fairly liberal so he might be one of the peace protesters on his collage campus right now.Given how liberal collages are theirs probably going to be riots on a Berkeley scale especially since only dumb collage students would probably be the only ones still willing to support the soviets(Though they would be a minority in TTL unlike OTL).
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I don't think there'd be any major protests besides a few radicals on the far-left. Wallace's victory in Vietnam has largely discredited the counterculture peace protests of the 60's as the United States did win a complete victory in Vietnam, so historians might look to those college students as divergents who chose to stand up against the government as a part of youth rebellion. Here in the leadup to WW3, the U.S has done nothing wrong as Reagan was on the path to detente with the Soviets and Rummy was seeking a passive-aggressive foreign policy until the coup happened. The Soviets and the Focoist bloc are the ones who are acting like aggressive conquerors, the only controversy for the West being whether it was okay for the Freyist Germans to fire upon the border guard, something I think most Americans would approve of. So domestically support for the war effort would be at an all-time high unless shit hits the fan with a global nuclear exchange, though judging by the wiki-boxes I predict a Soviet Revolution will occur before a possible judgement day.

Though since we are talking about family, this part hits pretty close to home for me as my dad was a Marine reservist so he'll most likely be deployed, along with my Uncle who was in the Navy at the time. I'll be waiting in anticipation to see what war-plan Rumsfeld and Bush concoct against the Soviets, most likely starting up with an invasion of Argentina and Brazil.
 

President Earl Warren

Kaiser Chris said:
I don't think there'd be any major protests besides a few radicals on the far-left. Wallace's victory in Vietnam has largely discredited the counterculture peace protests of the 60's as the United States did win a complete victory in Vietnam, so historians might look to those college students as divergents who chose to stand up against the government as a part of youth rebellion. Here in the leadup to WW3, the U.S has done nothing wrong as Reagan was on the path to detente with the Soviets and Rummy was seeking a passive-aggressive foreign policy until the coup happened. The Soviets and the Focoist bloc are the ones who are acting like aggressive conquerors, the only controversy for the West being whether it was okay for the Freyist Germans to fire upon the border guard, something I think most Americans would approve of. So domestically support for the war effort would be at an all-time high unless shit hits the fan with a global nuclear exchange, though judging by the wiki-boxes I predict a Soviet Revolution will occur before a possible judgement day.

Though since we are talking about family, this part hits pretty close to home for me as my dad was a Marine reservist so he'll most likely be deployed, along with my Uncle who was in the Navy at the time. I'll be waiting in anticipation to see what war-plan Rumsfeld and Bush concoct against the Soviets, most likely starting up with an invasion of Argentina and Brazil.
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Your underestimating what the fear of death comes about. If you saw your country getting into a possibly nuculear war because some border guard on the farside of the world was trigger itchy would you not be wondering why in hell thats happening.
 

Prince Daemon Targaryen

Kaiser Chris said:
I don't think there'd be any major protests besides a few radicals on the far-left. Wallace's victory in Vietnam has largely discredited the counterculture peace protests of the 60's as the United States did win a complete victory in Vietnam, so historians might look to those college students as divergents who chose to stand up against the government as a part of youth rebellion. Here in the leadup to WW3, the U.S has done nothing wrong as Reagan was on the path to detente with the Soviets and Rummy was seeking a passive-aggressive foreign policy until the coup happened. The Soviets and the Focoist bloc are the ones who are acting like aggressive conquerors, the only controversy for the West being whether it was okay for the Freyist Germans to fire upon the border guard, something I think most Americans would approve of. So domestically support for the war effort would be at an all-time high unless shit hits the fan with a global nuclear exchange, though judging by the wiki-boxes I predict a Soviet Revolution will occur before a possible judgement day.

Though since we are talking about family, this part hits pretty close to home for me as my dad was a Marine reservist so he'll most likely be deployed, along with my Uncle who was in the Navy at the time. I'll be waiting in anticipation to see what war-plan Rumsfeld and Bush concoct against the Soviets, most likely starting up with an invasion of Argentina and Brazil.
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President Earl Warren said:
Your underestimating what the fear of death comes about. If you saw your country getting into a possibly nuculear war because some border guard on the farside of the world was trigger itchy would you not be wondering why in hell thats happening.
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You both hit points very well. No one in the west likes the soviets or wants to let them off the hook. They want to fight if attacked and drive all the way to Moscow, but there is still that sense of intense fear of a nuclear holocaust. The latter is slightly mitigated by the fact that SDI is being implemented, but the fear is still substantial.
 

manav95

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President Earl Warren said:
Im assuming this was just brooks who decided to not make a play for the indian community or are the democrats as a whole deciding to throw away the indian vote?
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Well I guess in this TL Indians are primarily pro business Republicans. This actually was probably the case in OTL as well. A lot of Indians had bad experiences with socialism in India stifling businesses and economic growth, which is why they moved here. And naturally the Republican party would be a great fit for them, at least before they turned socially conservative.
 

Prince Daemon Targaryen

manav95 said:
Well I guess in this TL Indians are primarily pro business Republicans. This actually was probably the case in OTL as well. A lot of Indians had bad experiences with socialism in India stifling businesses and economic growth, which is why they moved here. And naturally the Republican party would be a great fit for them, at least before they turned socially conservative.
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Most of the Indians that arrive in the United States are either Hindus or Bengali Muslims, the ratio being about 2:1 in favor of the former
 
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