I have a feeling this TL ain't gonna turn out good. I shudder to think of what might happen come WW2.
By that do you mean the quality/plausability or would you not want to live in this timeline
I have a feeling this TL ain't gonna turn out good. I shudder to think of what might happen come WW2.
By that do you mean the quality/plausability or would you not want to live in this timeline.
FDR was more interventionist than about 60% of Democrats and 90% of Republicans. (Willkie was something of a fluke.)
For a first crack at "WWII without FDR", start by eliminating Lend-Lease. It was not a particularly popular idea at the time, and it required FDR's charisma and a certain investment of political capital to get across.
Doug M.
Thanks. I was actually considering America staying isolationist in this timeline, leading to an Anglo-Soviet alliance in Europe to defeat Germany. However, I'm not 100% on keeping the US Isolationist yet.
Note that Garner, a Texan
The NRA had very serious negative effects on the economy. The Blue Eagle would become a detested symbol amongst small business owners. A series of regulations were quickly enacted, such as labor wages and price setting.
Before the NRA there were smaller businesses that outsold larger businesses on a regional level. This was because they charged less then the brand name companies, and paid a lower wage to workers. When the NRA passed a regulation that required employers to increase workers wages. Smaller businesses were forced to either raise prices or fire workers. When the NRA passed regulation that forced all businesses to raise the prices for their goods and services, this killed many businesses, putting more people out of work in the private sector. These workers were less likely to get jobs from the RIA or in the CCC, since most of these businesses were in the North.
In 1934 the American Liberty League(ALL) was founded. Conservative Democrats along with Republicans protested the NRA, seeking either it’s repeal, or for the Supreme Court to strike it down. A group of business owners supported by the ALL who had lost their businesses because of the NRA regulations filed a suit against the Federal Government. This case would eventually reach the supreme court in the summer of 1935, where the NRA was struck down as being unconstitutional.
Why is this NRA so much tougher than the OTL one? Looking at Wiki (ja, I know, Wiki), it seems that the only price setting was basically in the oil industry (although there does seem to have been provision for regulation to that effect that might have come in later). Similarly for wage controls.
It's not obvious to me from that article that it even applied to small businesses - it would have been crazy for it to do so. Certainly things like the modern ADA mostly only apply to businesses with e.g. more than 25 employees, IIRC.
The OTL main point of contention was the loosening of the anti-trust regulation, and, at least according to Wiki, THAT was what drove up prices, not regulation...
Why is this NRA so much tougher than the OTL one? Looking at Wiki (ja, I know, Wiki), it seems that the only price setting was basically in the oil industry (although there does seem to have been provision for regulation to that effect that might have come in later). Similarly for wage controls.
It's not obvious to me from that article that it even applied to small businesses - it would have been crazy for it to do so. Certainly things like the modern ADA mostly only apply to businesses with e.g. more than 25 employees, IIRC.
The OTL main point of contention was the loosening of the anti-trust regulation, and, at least according to Wiki, THAT was what drove up prices, not regulation...
I think the TL is going along pretty nicely but could you do something to make updates a little more obvious, have them stand out from normal posts a little more?Thanks!