A fascist United States AH

Jesus, why is everyone trying so damn hard to write the story for Ally? Hardly an atmosphere conducive to creativity.

Eh, he doesn't exactly have to read it. Why can't people discuss ideas for how they see a fascist United States? It certainly can help other writers with ideas on forming a fascist or a right-wing dictatorship USA.
 
right on! I think this topic is interesting and dammit if I want to debate how a fascist US would rise to power, no one can tell me not to. Besides, I agree that it helps writers(I think so) to get other ideas/suggestions from people. It makes brainstorming easier.
 

The Vulture

Banned
You keep crashing in here with "YOU MUST PUT THIS IN YOUR STORY OTHERWISE YOU'RE STUPID". Write your own damn fascist America TL instead of trying to force your ideas on another person.
 
excuse me? Sorry for suggesting ideas for him to add to his story. In my humble opinion as a writer I encourage debates/advice(its helpful you see and entirely up to me to use the suggestions) and provide ideas to other writers at a little forum you may have hear off called antishurtugal.


So, how about you write your own damn AH about a fascist America, then?
 

The Vulture

Banned
excuse me? Sorry for suggesting ideas for him to add to his story. In my humble opinion as a writer I encourage debates/advice(its helpful you see and entirely up to me to use the suggestions) and provide ideas to other writers at a little forum you may have hear off called antishurtugal.


So, how about you write your own damn AH about a fascist America, then?

Already did.
 
WARNING: CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM:

"...As you know Bob" is a horrible way to make allusions to the state of the AH world. No, no no. Have you read the Man in the High Castle? There is one part where this mistress of this one character tells him about the Grasshopper lies heavy AH novel as a way to illustrate to the reader how the Axis won without sounding like one big info dump.

If Bob already knows what happened to, say for example Cuba, then why does Character Y have to tell Bob this info in such a blatant, info dump?


Character Y, reading the newspaper, could remark to Bob:

"Hey Bob, apparently those Cuban pro-democracy protesters are at it again. Can't wait till we send in the US army to squash 'em."
 
Guys, please get a bedroom to yourselves, or something.

if you fallow through with this don't use the "as you know bob.." format of telling us why the US is fascist, that would ruin it.

Thanks a lot, I didn't even think of that.
It slipped my notice completely, but now I'll sit down and edit it out. Since the main point of the story is neither the AH aspect nor the fascist government, I'll try to be subtle about these things and just drop references here and there.

For example:
"The old President would've lifted the ban, but he was too distracted by the expansionist campaign in Southeast Asia at the time."
 
just one thing fascism is very different to a reactionary state. a fascist state can’t co-exist with federalism or really a strong church in the long run so both of these make a truly fascist America almost ASB in terms of McCarthyism a reactionary state can exist with these things but a truly fascist state is as ante conservative as communism. e.g Nazi poster's had American capitalism sitting along communism with as the great evils, Hitler in the end fell out with both catholic and some protestant church's
 
I've gotten my hands on Chris Hedges' book "American Fascists". It's pretty interesting stuff, and I might use some of it for inspiration.
 
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