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I mean, I don't think it would be too different than how the era treated other mad kings. Probably one of his adult children is made regent, and the King sent away to be imprisoned in some austere monastery, far, far from the public eye.

I wonder how a Catholic Church in the Anglosphere that isn't institutionally affected by the Famine would look like. Certainly in places like America, OTL the Irish Catholicism exported there could often be highly nationalistic, parochial in the worst sense of the word (which alienated many...

Amsterdam would not be as prominent in a scenario where they lost the 80 Years War.

Wasn't the EU generally seen originally a a project of the Christian Democratic parties? I guess if you want to extend that ethod for longer, you'd have to butterfly the Protests of 1968, and I think that's really hard to do qithout butterflying at least the Second World War in Europe.

It's common in America. It's seen as a way to avoid bureaucratic or elite cliques surrounded around the Governor's or other local powerbroker's patronage.

There are FPTP systems with viable third parties. Britain, for example, in the Mother of Parliaments. What you need is a political force distinct enough in a particular region that isn't served well by the major parties. The classic example is the South, due to its long and troubled history (or...

-Turkey would rain down all hellfire short of leaving NATO at the existence of an independent Kurdistan -the problem is some of the major cities. Baghdad, Kirkuk and Mosul are notoriously religiously and ethnically mixed. The last two also have the trait of being near to lots of that oil IIRC.

I think it's because people look at the much better response in Britain, Australia and Spain (starting with the Don't Die of Ignorance campaign). Of course, that was in 1986-87, Britain wasn't in the middle of a religious revival, and even that was rather late in the game after their authorities...

I highly doubt that a Carter Presidency would make too much difference from OTL. Yes, he's pro-gay rights NOW. But in 1980, 1981? As has been pointed out, he was the first modern Evangelical President. Someone talked about the Moral Majority - to some extent he was part of the Moral Majority...

I think that's largely ASB here. The simple fact is that HIV spread from, its former customary hosts (mostly railway workers and the like in Zaïre) by a combination of recruitment of aid workers from Haiti in the 60s, and the increasing ease of air travel, and some other factors. To arrest the...