AHC: Create an exotic party system

[Born in the USSA]

Wait a minute. To clarify, is the AHC here just to create althist political parties?

No. The AHC is to create alternate party systems, so multiple parties, each of which represents either a surviving party that went extinct in OTL or a social or political movement that existed but never struck out on its own. Exceptions are made for completely new parties that style themselves after extinct movement or party, as long as it's a logical development for the time period. For example, having a worse Great Depression scenario where Technocracy Inc is swept into power during and becomes a pillar of the American electoral system would count, while having a monarchist party form would not, since there was no movement or constituency for it at the time.

As for my Power Without Knowledge idea it counts even though none of the parties are descended from their original namesake because they're both claiming to be the ideological heirs of those parties while also representing real measurable factions from the combined pool of Republicans, Democrats and Reform partisans.

 

[PrinceofApathy]

No. The AHC is to create alternate party systems, so multiple parties, each of which represents either a surviving party that went extinct in OTL or a social or political movement that existed but never struck out on its own. Exceptions are made for completely new parties that style themselves after extinct movement or party, as long as it's a logical development for the time period. For example, having a worse Great Depression scenario where Technocracy Inc is swept into power during and becomes a pillar of the American electoral system would count, while having a monarchist party form would not, since there was no movement or constituency for it at the time.

As for my Power Without Knowledge idea it counts even though none of the parties are descended from their original namesake because they're both claiming to be the ideological heirs of those parties while also representing real measurable factions from the combined pool of Republicans, Democrats and Reform partisans.

Neat.

So I was thinking about this for a while, and imagine a scenario where the 6 million Jews who would have been murdered in the Holocaust were instead transferred to Palestine by an alternate, non-Nazi organization. Handwaving the logistical nightmare this would create for the new state (not to mention the Palestinians), my guess is that this would create a society where the original Zionist dream of a "New Jew" probably wouldn't be able to take hold. OTL Israel is multicultural as it is, but nowhere near to the extent that it would be ITTL. There probably wouldn't be an "Israeli" in the sense that we know them, but it would probably be like America in the sense that identities would be hyphenated. Israel ended up absorbing the West Bank, Gaza, and the Sinai Peninsula, but gradually became more of an unofficial binational state overtime.

Zionist Union: A coalition of center to center-left of parties primarily in the interest of middle-class, Hebrew-speaking Ashkenazim. Mostly the descendants of kibbutzniks and halutzim. Focuses primarily on maintaining standards of living and promoting both the Hebrew language, as well as secular "Jewish" culture.

1. General Zionists: The party representing the intellectual tradition of Herzl and other Central/Western European Zionists. Neoliberal economics. Did not die out IOTL.
2. Labour: Same as OTL.
3. Folkspartei: A middle-class party that caters to secular Yiddish speakers. Differs from the rest of the Zionist Union in that it does not have the same attitude towards Hebrew, though largely has the same economic attitudes.

Religious Bloc: Varied on economic ideas, but united in the idea that Israel should be a society where Judaism should have a greater role in Israeli society. Currently in power. Slightly less right-wing ITTL due to the lack of trauma inflicted on religious Jews by the Holocaust, and to a lesser extent, Zionism.

• Aguduas Yisroel: Socially and economically conservative religious party that caters to Hasidic Jews. Same as OTL, but they don't feel the need to merge with Degel HaTorah and form UTJ.
• Degel HaTorah: Same as OTL. Right-wing party representing Ashkenazi Haredim of the non-Hasidic tradition.
• Poale Agudat Yisrael: An economically left-wing party that still maintains its religious values. Advocates for a higher standard of living and increased strength for unions. Attracts religious Jews of Central and Western European extraction.
• Shomer HaMizrach: Equivalent to IOTL Shas, but represents specifically Jews from the Middle East and North Africa.
• Friends of Sepharad: Economically center-left party that promotes the cultural interest of Western Sephardim (Italy, the Netherlands, Turkey, England, and the Balkans)

Conservative Association:

• Likud: Same as OTL
• Yisrael Beiteinu: Same as OTL
• Mizrachi: Economically center-right religious party that promotes the Hebrew language, as well as cultural Zionism.

Arab Joint List: Same as OTL, again. Due to being the largest minority in Israel, Arab parties are constitutionally guaranteed at least five seats in the Knesset.

Progressive Joint List: A coalition of center-left to leftist parties of various cultural persuasions.

• The Bund: A secular, anti-Zionist far-left party that advocates for the preservation and profligation of the secular and socialist Yiddish cultural milieu. Far less popular than they think they are.
• All-Palestine Communist Party: An anti-Zionist, multi-ethnic Marxist-Leninist party.
• Mapai: Economically far-left, but still supports a Jewish state and secular Zionist culture.
• Meretz: Same as OTL.
• Greens: Self explanatory.
• Tikkun Olam: An economically center-left party which specifically advocates for greater visibility for non-Orthodox Jews, given their minority status. Popular among upper-class Central European Jews that did not return to Europe after the end of the ITTL non-Nazi equivalent of WWII.

Minority parties: All connotationally guaranteed at least one Knesset seat.

• Druze Party: Self-explanatory.
• Ethiopian Association: Represents Ethiopian Jews. It was decided they would get this status due to their practice being outside the Jewish mainstream.
• Karaite Party: Represents Karaite Jews.
• Templer Forum: Represents the community of Templer Germans, who ITTL were not deported from Palestine due to their lack of Nazi affiliations, and thus became a part of the Israeli cultural fabric.
• One Slavic Nation: Represents the various Russians, Poles, Ukrainians, and other Eastern Europeans that found their way to Israel: often times through being involved with Jewish families.

 

[Born in the USSA]

Here's another excellent one from @Newne76 ! The post is mainly about the states involved but it gives tantalizing hints at a fractured alternate party system and an interesting variety in governance at the state level

Azteca
Azteca is a state in the western United States, located primarily within the southwestern portion of the country. It boarders the states of Tyler to the South and East, Cherokee , Kansas and Douglas to the west and to a certain extent up north with respect to Douglas. On the North it shares a boarder with Yutta, Sierra and Colorado. It's capital is the city of Canyonaro, near the national park of the Grand Canyon, while it's largest city is Los Angeles to the state's far western portion.

Azteca is the third largest state in the United States by area and second largest in population. Disagreements over the potential prospect of slavery expanded to the territory brought the area under the brief control of the break away Charter Republic of America during the ensuing War between the States. Following the end of the war, Radical Reconstructionists in Congress refused to bring the bill for statehood to a vote, in spite of the citizens in the territory passing a referendum in 1866. In 1869 the territory was formally organized as the Aztec Territory, dividing it between the then recently created Grand Basin Territory.

The Southwestern's developing textile industry and industrial revolution played a role in the eventual admission of the state into the union in 1889, with a keen eye on possible gold deposits driving the population up as many made their way out west to head for the state of Colorado. Politically, the state had been a large stronghold of Know Nothing anti-immigrant support and rhetoric from the right wing on American politics, though increasing population within the last twenty years and migration to the heavily urbanized areas of Taylor and Los Angeles has left the nation swing more to the left, with the state voting for Readjuster candidates on the state and federal level, with a narrow plurality being held by the left-leaning Readjuster party in the House of Representatives.


Colorado
Colorado is a state in the Western United States. It is bordered by the states of Sierra and Young to the north and east and Azteca to the south, with the Pacific Ocean comprising the state's eastern boarder. Bangkok is the state's capital for legislative affairs, while the CEO and COO both meet in the city of Fremont for governmental business.

The State's fortune was first made and comprised primarily of the whaling oil and gold mining industries that sprang up as a result of the rush for gold following 1848. Although the state had enough people to qualify as a state within two year of the gold rush, Congress was reticent to act on statehood, and so the state was just admitted prior to the war between the states. Currently Colorado is one of the most wealthy states within the United States, thanks in part to a booming movie industry there known as Highwood. The state is also known for it's general business friendly attitudes and low tax rates in contrast to other states within the country. Culturally, the state is known for it's string of successive movie directors, artists and musicians that contribute to the overall culture of Colorado and of the country as a whole. People from the state also also nicknamed "Forty-Niners" thanks to it's history as a mineral state.

Politically, the state is currently managed by a CEO and COO respectively, one of the only states in the union to organize the government on a business type level. Readjusters still hold a plurality within the state's legislative House of General Business, but not in the House of Migrants and Travelers, where a coalition of Know-Nothing and Federalist hold power. The State is also known for it's political status as a swing state, holding a total of 17 electoral votes sometimes being the decisive answer, such as in the 1960 U.S Presidential election, where it was credited with landing Senator Barry Goldwater of neighboring Azteca in the White House by eleven thousand votes out of two million cast.


Yutta
Yutta is a state in the Western United States. Bordered by the states of Sierra, Young, Lane and Hamilton on it's westside, while sharing the south with the aforementioned Azteca. The States of Douglas and Sioux are to Yutta's east, while directly north is a tiny section of the Canadian boarder and the state of Rankin. While Jerusalem along the Wasatch mountain range is the capital, the largest city is Nephi, located in the middle of the state.

As most of the state lies in the Great Basin geographically, the state was initially organized as the Great Basin Territory in 1868. Settled by Mormons seeking asylum from hatred and bigotry, this group had great issues in getting statehood, fighting in several militant actions throughout the 1870s and 1880s until the Compromise of 1888, which saw U.S President Theodore Roosevelt Sr grant statehood within two years.

The State is the only self described "Theodemocracy" within the United States. Derided by outsiders as a fundamentalist Christian theocracy, the state generally operates under a blur of church and state, with religious titles within the LDS church being the de-facto heads of state and government, although the President of the Church must abstain from partisanship, and is one of the only current Independent-affiliated state leaders.


Tyler
Tyler is the second largest U.S State by area and the largest within the Contiguous United States. It shares a boarder with Mexico to it's south, (the only state to do so.) Long and Dixon to the east, Cherokee to it's north and a lengthy boarder with Azteca to the west. Named in admiration for the U.S President who forcibly dragged an unwilling congress to admit it to the union in 1844, Tyler is the largest state in terms of overall population, with a total of almost 37 million residents. Sharpsburg is the state's largest city, with the next largest cities being Crockett and Davis respectively.

The term "Seven flags over Tyler" is a reference to seven nation-states calming the country throughout it's history. Prussia held a brief colony there before being kicked out by the English, then the French who built a series of outposts, followed by claims by the Dutch, then the Mexicans. It was then admitted into the Union in 1845. In 1861 it left the Union to go and join the CRA until it's defeat, thereafter it was reabsorbed and readmitted as a state again following a period of reconstruction.

The State's economy was historically dominated initially by Cotton from Statehood until the outbreak of the War between the States, then by a post-war cattle boom, then there was an oil boom in the early 1900s. Although the state is primarily reliant on oil exports for government revenue, the state has been diversifying it's assets since the 1950s, with expansions into the technology industry, film and military hardware, with Tyler being also known as the only state to produce nuclear weapons for the U.S military.

Politically and historically, the state has been ripe with secessionist and independence minded sympathies and general atmosphere, being a side effect of rampant segregation that continues within the state to this day, controversially understood as the "Tyler Issue" in American politics, known as a political third rail owing to the absolute political significance that Tyler holds over state and federal politics. These policies have been spearheaded by one of the last remaining strongholds of the Dixiecratic white supremacist Movements that were birthed in the early 1940s. Today, the large influx of migrants and immigrants along the long Texan Panhandle to The Sea is a common issue in American politics. The nativist Know Nothing Party is a strong ally with the Dixiecrats on anti-immigrant rhetoric and is the most adamant in improving statewide boarder security, arguing the state's the first and only place for illegal immigrants to cross into, owing the length of the state that was historically in a bid to access the Pacific Ocean.

 

[Born in the USSA]

Having evolved for over a century under the "Georgist consensus" pioneered by Sun Yat-sen, from an outside perspective the Republic of China seems monolithic under the stewardship of his Nationalist Party. This is largely an oversimplification, with even periods of intense Nationalist dominance marked by an undercurrent of robust political organizing and voter engagement by the opposition. It is also important to note that political parties in the ROC do not break down into a neat left-right spectrum, with the fractions of the National Assembly organized along an axis of governmental concentration rather than one of economic intervention. This is seen as the natural consequence of Georgism crosscutting across traditional ideological lines and of the China-oriented third pole of the Cold War.

• Progressive Party- Created in 1913 as a merger of the Republican, Democratic and Unity parties, the Progressive Party was the primary base of support for Yuan Shikai before turning on him for his attempts to puppet the National Assembly. Choosing to adapt as necessary to thrive under Sun's Cultural Revolution, the Progressives accommodated themselves to his Georgist structural forms, advocating for a more centralized statist China in contrast to the federalism championed by the Nationalists. They have maintained this orientation to the present, though their isolationist stance was a persistent drain during the height of the Cold War.
• Nationalist Party- Commonly seen as the natural party of government in China, the Nationalist Party traces its origins to 1912, though Yuan Shikai had attempted to suppress the party during his presidency. In the wake of Yuan's death in 1915, Sun Yat-sen was able to lead the Nationalists to a commanding victory on a wave of popular support, and the resulting tide of economic and social change would come to be called the Cultural Revolution, and would see the old land monopolies torn up and redistributed, though the land value tax has never been the only source of government revenue. The Nationalist Party has traditionally enjoyed a commanding presence in the Assembly, with the LVT-supported "citizen's dividends" and the checks and balance federalism championed by the party earning consistent approval from the population. The Nationalist Party has historically followed an opportunistic path to ideological expansion, using international trade deals and other economic tools to peacefully expand Chinese influence, especially among decolonized nations unwilling to side with either the US or the Soviet Union.
• Productive People's Party- Formed in 1933, the Productive People's Party arose in opposition to President Chiang Kai-shek's presidency. Although he had vowed to continue his predecessor's platform, it was thought by many that the pace of land reform had slowed under his tenure. With the Communist Party a dead letter by the thirties, the PPP was able to lay a claim to the nation's radical reformists and was soon elevated into the National Assembly. Anti-imperialist to the core, the party quickly made a name for itself in the second Sino-Japanese War, with the party faithful aggressively lobbying for aid packages for the new Republic of Japan in the aftermath. Declaring itself the party of agricultural and industrial workers, the PPP has consistently supported the devolution of central government powers to the states, successfully sponsoring a constitutional amendment to make the presidency popularly elected in the sixties. The party is interventionist, arguing that given China's history of anticolonial struggle it is the nation's responsibility to assist peoples crushed under the yoke of foreign imperialism, viewing Georgism as the surest path to national self-determination and responsible land management.

 

[Born in the USSA]

Here's a single new party I came up with for another thread that would make for a radical shakeup of the seventies.

Here's a quick scenario whipped up based on my own suggestion:

• 1968- After winning the Democratic nomination Lyndon Johnson is narrowly elected despite losing the popular vote. The Vietnam War escalates. Charles Manson and the Family die in a drug related accidental poisoning.
• 1969- The Miracle of Chicago: despite signs of a real chance at splintering the Students for a Democratic Society are able to agree to a unified platform with the Revolutionary Youth Movement faction, entering into an alliance with Fred Hampton's Rainbow Coalition and adopting a more organized national structure.
• 1970- Hunter S. Thompson is elected Sheriff of Aspen. Although unable to enact his full program the influx of counterculture elements makes the town unappealing to potential developers. In the aftermath Freak Power spreads throughout the interior west as the symbol of resistance to "land-rapers".
• 1971- Noam Chomsky and Terence McKenna meet by chance at the airport and have a lengthy discussion about their academic fields and political philosophies. They strike up a correspondence that will eventually evolve into the central synthesis of the Freak Left movement.
• 1972- With the looming threat of a presidential race between Nixon and Wallace, representatives of the SDS, Rainbow Coalition, Freak Power, the Youth International Party and the People's Temple agree to coordinate to support an independent run by Shirley Chisholm with Jim Jones as VP.

Despite Chisholm's loss in the election a combination of committed organization on the ground and historic voter apathy in the two major parties delivers a far better result than anticipated. As a result the five-way coalition survives the loss and with the adoption of the Chomsky-McKenna synthesis eventually consolidates into a single unified organization calling itself the National Progressive Party.

 

[Born in the USSA]

Inspired by the above:

Over the Rainbow- The Freak Left and the NPP

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What if we got Acid Communism before we got Capitalist Realism? I was inspired to make this by my musings over in this thread about trying to make the hippies a major political force. In something of a later-stage Reds! scenario I decided the best way to do that was to remove the tendency toward leftist splintering (or at least have cooler heads prevail) while the Manson family accidentally poisons themselves before any murders and the Vietnam War just keeps getting worse, producing a situation where the Democrats and Republicans are different flavors of cold warrior conservatives by 1972 and a political coalition organized around electing Shirley Chisholm as an Independent candidate coheres into a solid party bringing together the SDS, Fred Hampton's Rainbow Coalition, Hunter S. Thompson's Freak Power, the Yippies and the political arm of the People's Temple. The new National Progressive Party becomes the only game in town on the political left as bourgeois liberals and moderates in the other parties either fade to irrelevance, go along to get along or become radicalized over the course of the seventies.

The core ideology of the NPP is grounded in a leftist synthesis called the Freak Left, crafted by Noam Chomsky and Terence McKenna after a lengthy correspondence sparked by a chance meeting at an airport in 1971 and bringing together the organizational focus and rational outlook of the New Left with the mystical attitudes and emphasis on personal experimentation and self-discovery offered by the Freak scene. The Party has wings ranging from pacifism of the flower children to the radicalism of the Revolutionary Youth Movement and organizationally strikes a balance between the focus on direct democracy embodied by the early SDS and the more centralized and hierarchical Rainbow coalition, opting for a horizontal approach to decentralized organizing to limit the damage of government attacks on the group. Did the group's formation make Hoover drop dead of a heart attack? No, but it's been great for propaganda. The flag of the NPP combines symbols of the three largest factions during the '72 campaign, combining a rainbow for the Coalition, a clenched fist for the SDS and a peyote button for Freak Power. As for the rainbow itself the Pride Flag wasn't invented until '78 so it gets butterflied, leading to the LGBT scene retaining a pink triangle that was in use before then and thus to the pink stripe on the finished flag.

 

[Born in the USSA]

I had a random idea for an ASB party system that would evolve in relation to the spread of vampirism in the backstory of the 2009 film Daybreakers and in an attempt to create a realistic version without any fantastic elements I came up with this little number. It's pretty much the inverse of what I originally came up with but I like it all the same. As with Daybreakers the major wedge issue would have to do with the attitude toward the national food supply, and would diverge from OTL in 1910 with the successful passage of the Hippo Bill in response to the national meat shortage at the time, sending America down the path of importing animals to exploit unproductive biomes instead of industrializing the meat supply.

• Progressive Party- Founded in 1912, the Progressives embraced the Hippo Bill even as the creatures began to spread outside their range, with the party able to capitalize on the resulting disruption to the power base of the southern Democrats. The Party simultaneously used Roosevelt's New Nationalism as a cudgel against the business class in its early years, but has grown more culturally conservative as the Fourth Party System has matured. They still maintain the soundness of the Hippo Bill despite the unforseen ecological and social consequences, and have repeatedly used the bill to import new species for food or other practical uses*. The Progressives continue to use the bull moose as a symbol.
• Farmer-Labor Party- Founded in 1919 as the southern Democrats waned under a swarm of hippos and the economic disruptions of the Great War created increasing calls for a greater populist voice in national politics, the party was dominated by northern Democrats that hadn't switched to the ascendant Progressives along with a large segment of the hollowed out Republicans. In contrast to the Progressive emphasis on importing new food and labor animals, the FLP advocates a policy of making existing farmland more profitable through industrialization, along with an industrial policy focused on increasing unionization and worker control over the economy. The FLP adopted an anaconda as a symbol, mostly out of spite in response to attacks on the original populist movement that used the animal.
• Communist Party of America- Founded in 1920 by a reorganization of the Socialist Party of America, the CPA has seen the steadiest growth in the South* and in other areas disrupted by imported animal species. The Communists are most popular among the black population and the Indian nations, since both groups are ideally placed to exploit new opportunities created by the erosion of traditional methods of land control. A noticably militant fringe in the party has provided an excellent scapegoat used by the Progressives and the FLP to tar the organization without bringing race into it. As an animal that cannot be domesticated or exploited industrially, the hippo was a long standing symbol in the Socialist Party by 1920, and it continues to be used by the CPA to this day.
• Independent Party- Founded in 1948 in response to the growth of the CPA, the Independent Party is essentially an electoral vehicle for the Klan and other reactionary political groups active in the South. Unable to compete nationally, the party's congressional delegation is made up entirely of Dixiecrats that survived the defection of the northern Dems to the Progressives and the FLP and who remain locked into power by voter suppression laws. The Independents devote most of their energy to pitched street battles with the Communists, and use a camellia as the party symbol.

All told, the US in this scenario is a bit of a mixed bag. On the one hand, the Progressive/Farmer-Labor dichotomy has resulted in a much more robust social safety net and higher rates of union membership, but the importing of all these new species has had disastrous consequences on the North American biosphere. The lack of large scale industrial meat production at least makes the American food chain much more humane and the opportunities created by this disruption have created a path to cultural autonomy and economic security for historically disadvantaged groups, but there's a worrying level of political terrorism by factions who want to move more aggressively to topple the status quo, along with a resurgent Klan driven into a frenzy.

*Among other things there's a thriving population of camels in the southwest and elephants in the Great Plains. Each has had their ecological impact but perhaps most notable is the massive population of wild tigers in Texas, that one has gotten a little out of hand.
**Inspired by the SLP novel Bearfish. Unlike real life, the Communist Party is the legal successor of the Socialist Party rather than a splinter group.

 

[Born in the USSA]

Inspired by a thread on whether it's necessary to replace the US Constitution (and given my own project writing a Basic Law for my timeline), I decided to create this thread! Create amendments and constitutions (or at least parts of ones) for your AH projects and ideologies, talk shop over the art of constitutional framing, discuss innovative mechanisms and features of real life constitutional documents (or even the rare fictional ones 🤔), describe government structures, whatever takes your fancy! I know it's a bit in the weeds even by the usual standards of the site but I can speak from firsthand experience that it's an interesting and enlightening field of the hobby.

 

[Born in the USSA]

I ended up making a future history seventh party system but couldn't post it in this forum, unfortunately

 

[Anarch King of Dipsodes]

Health Above All: The Hygienist Dictatorship

The Hygienist movement declared that human health was the highest value. It drew on various sources: "physical culture", prohibitionism (no 1918 Prohibition amendment, so the movement remained active), and eugenics (no Nazi Germany, not discredited). As with other utopian ideologies, Hygienism came to believe that its noble ends justified extreme means, and to regard any disagreement with its program as criminality.

Hygienism took power in the 1952 election.

The Hygienists enacted Prohibition - of alcohol and also tobacco, with draconian enforcement. "Vice" (prostitution) was ruthlessly repressed. To ensure the complete enforcement of these measures and silence all dissent, they set up a surveillance and police state, with ubiquitous informants.

Those suffering from mental illness, mental retardation, or disabling disease were euthanized.

Food and drink were subjected to comprehensive restrictions. Personal diet was supervised. Also personal fitness, with compulsory participation in exercise programs.

The Vegetarian Purge - when a dissident faction of Hygienists was eliminated.

Athletic success became a fetish. Regional governments competed for national prestige, subjecting their athletes to extreme training and secret augmentation with drugs.

 

[Born in the USSA]

Health Above All: The Hygienist Dictatorship

The Hygienist movement declared that human health was the highest value. It drew on various sources: "physical culture", prohibitionism (no 1918 Prohibition amendment, so the movement remained active), and eugenics (no Nazi Germany, not discredited). As with other utopian ideologies, Hygienism came to believe that its noble ends justified extreme means, and to regard any disagreement with its program as criminality.

Hygienism took power in the 1952 election.

The Hygienists enacted Prohibition - of alcohol and also tobacco, with draconian enforcement. "Vice" (prostitution) was ruthlessly repressed. To ensure the complete enforcement of these measures and silence all dissent, they set up a surveillance and police state, with ubiquitous informants.

Those suffering from mental illness, mental retardation, or disabling disease were euthanized.

Food and drink were subjected to comprehensive restrictions. Personal diet was supervised. Also personal fitness, with compulsory participation in exercise programs.

The Vegetarian Purge - when a dissident faction of Hygienists was eliminated.

Athletic success became a fetish. Regional governments competed for national prestige, subjecting their athletes to extreme training and secret augmentation with drugs.

- Give Me Liberty intensifies 😱

 

[Born in the USSA]

Based on a recent interest in synarchy inspired by my Amalgamationist Texas over in the flag thread I had the inspiration for another deep cut party system. In this scenario the Federalist Party has a much more dominant position in the early Republic, eventually provoking a counterreaction.

• The Federalist Party is the natural party of government in the United States, having held uninterrupted control of the nation for the first half century of its existence and long stretches of power since then. Typically regarded as the party of the business class, the national bureaucracy and the American Rite of Freemasonry, the Federalist Party has shifted from conservative classical liberalism to outright synarchism in response to the growth of the Populist Party, and has come to view the oligarchic influence of the American Rite as the only safeguard against the tumult in Europe and elsewhere. The black and white of the party has gradually shifted to gray for convenience, and the party most commonly uses a combined Eye of Providence and Mason's compass as a symbol.

• The Populist Party arose in the 1830s as a combination of two minor parties on the fringes of Federalist domination, the northern Anti-Masonic Party and the southern Nullifier Party. Fusing gave the new populist party a national base of support, but despite occasionally capturing the Presidency or some chamber of the Congress lasting change proved elusive in the face of a superior Federalist party machinery. After decades wandering in the wilderness the party has changed, retaining the A-MP opposition to secret societies even as the Nullifier states-rights tradition was gradually discarded in favor of localist flavors of anarchism and Stirnerist egoism imported from the Continent. As a symbol of collective action the Populists have adopted the old Roman fasces as their main symbol.

 

[Born in the USSA]

Inspired by this political cartoon posted by @Xenophonte I decided to try and come up with a party system pitting the upper class against the middle and lower classes simultaneously 🤔 The POD is that Teddy Roosevelt never gets picked to be VP, so a more pro-business Republican is selected. In the resulting climate the publication of The Jungle produces a more robust backlash, just not driving everyone towards socialism as he intended.

• The Liberal Republican Party formed from the rump of the Republican Party in the wake of the defection of the radicals at the urging of Roosevelt. The business of the Liberal Republicans is business and they don't even pretend otherwise, using cultural appeals and party machines to maintain their national standing. The Liberals continue to use the GOP elephant.
• The Producers' Party is the result of a fusion between moderate progressives in the Republican and Democratic parties combined with the Georgist Single Tax Party. Positioning itself in opposition to both the fat cats at the top and the wildcats at the bottom, the Producers advocate craft unionism, Georgist land taxes, robust consumer protections and means testing in entitlements. The Producers use a goat as a symbol.
• The Socialist Party is doing far better than it ever did historically but factionalism within the working class has held it back considerably. Favoring the principle of the general union approach and solidarity between the proletariat and the lumpenproletariat, the party is attacked by the Liberals as unamerican and by the Producers as free-riders. The Socialists retain their OTL symbols.
• The True Democrats are confined to the south and focused almost entirely on states rights and cultural appeals. The True Dems use green in homage to the historical antifederalist Anti-Administration party and continue to use the Jacksonian donkey.

This party system is in for a contingent election or two and a few presidents who still lose the popular vote but the simple fact is that there's less ground between the Producers and the Socialists than there is between either party and the Liberals, so eventually an economic crisis will hit* and outrage at the system will overcome inertia, leading to the birth of a big tent populist party to counter the Liberals.

*The US never joined in the Great War but still loaned to everyone, so a default-sparked economic downturn is inevitable given the moribund European economy.

 

[Born in the USSA]

Here's a poll for my flag challenge about political parties!

Weekly Flag Challenge #256 Voting

Flag Challenge 256: Party like its 2099! Inspired by a fun idea I had for a future history American party system, my challenge to you all is to create a flag for a major 21st century American political party, combining my loves of weird politics, ideological colors and flag making. Is it a...

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[Born in the USSA]

This was inspired by a short list of proposed constitutional amendments, and my mad attempts to cram them all into the same scenario

"My fellow Earthicans...": The United States of the Earth

Based on an odd list of proposed amendments to the Constitution and using a modified version of a T-and-O map I found online, I present to you the flag for the United States of the Earth!

Spoiler: The Second Era of Good Feelings

In a world where the Corrupt Bargain was never struck, president Tilden and the Democratic majority in the House became increasingly frustrated by Republican efforts in the Senate to block them from ending Reconstruction. There was even talk in Republican circles of adding new sparsely-populated states to cement their majority. Something radical needed to be done. The end result of an orgy of bribery, shady deals and outright voter suppression would be the adoption of the 16th Amendment, in a stroke abolishing the Senate entirely. While some in the party were wary of such a drastic change, even the amendment's naysayers would have no idea how drastically this would change the United States- the 16th Amendment had been adopted at great cost and with tremendous difficulty, but absent the Senate future amendments would have a much easier time of it. Largely hamstrung by a not-incorrect belief on the part of the voters that they were too deeply in the pocket of the rich, the Republicans would be doomed to a slow extinction, though the Second Era of Good Feelings was not to last as the Democrats themselves splintered, with the Populist Party swelling in size and using the now much lower threshold to pass several new amendments in the late 1870s. The 17th Amendment banning religious figures from government office or from receiving government funds had been aimed squarely at Catholics and Mormons but due to the Free Exercise Clause was applied across the board. The 18th Amendment sought to make the Executive Branch more responsive to popular will, replacing the Presidency with a popularly elected three-member body called the Executive Council.

Spoiler: The Rise of the Brotherhood

After roughly a decade of Populist dominance over the rump Democrats and Republicans, a new party would coalesce in the early 1890's calling itself the Cooperative Brotherhood (originally Social Democracy of America) a big tent utopian socialist party seeking to combine political action and the formation of intentional communities as a path to change, newly viable in a world where the House of Representatives was effectively the only game in town. Brotherhood control of the government would see the admission of the states of Dakota, Deseret and Yellowstone, as well as an earlier Spanish-American War that would see the Philippines and Cuba admitted as states as well. The 1890s would see three new amendments added to the Constitution- the 19th Amendment changed the name of the nation to the United States of the Earth, while the 20th Amendment abolished the Army and Navy, with Coast Guard expanded into a vast Peace Force designed to span the nation's empire and enforce its control with a combined arms doctrine while sidestepping the Posse Comitatus Act entirely. The 21st Amendment was largely a result of discontent in religious circles (especially among the new pro-American elite governing Cuba and the Philippines), and would acknowledge Jesus and the Christian God as the final arbiters of human affairs. In practice this was a fairly toothless symbolic gesture, with "In God We Trust" made the official motto of the USE and a resurgence in popularity of the deistic Jefferson Bible. The flag of the USE, designed to be distinct from the defunct American one but still recognizable, was a version of the Serapis flag with a modified T-and-O map in the canton.

Spoiler: The Populist Era

The Democrats had used the abolition of the Senate to cement what at the time seemed like a lock on Congress, but the successor Populists didn't like it one bit when the Brotherhood admitted nonwhite states to do the same. The aptly named Populist Era would see yet three more amendments designed to restrict interracial mixing and prevent further foreign adventures to acquire territory, with the 22nd Amendment criminalizing interracial marriage and the 23rd Amendment banning divorce regardless of race. The 24th Amendment would establish a national referendum to declare war, with the "Yes" voters automatically drafted for the duration if the vote was successful. It hadn't passed soon enough to prevent entry into the Great War but it was the law of the land now. Fears by some Populists that this would lead to the drafting of women into the Peace Force were quickly dashed by the Brotherhood's failure to secure a women's suffrage amendment, though any relief was short lived as the states gradually passed their own women's suffrage laws. Populist hopes that the 24th Amendment would stop Brotherhood adventurism cold found themselves proven wrong in 1916, with Pancho Villa's raid on Columbus, Apachea negating the requirement of a referendum and proving casus belli for intervention in the Mexican Revolution.

Spoiler: The Great Depression

The postwar period would see growing income inequality in the USE, with the final straw coming in form of a collapsing stock market that would go on to spark a global financial crisis- the Great Depression had begun. The thirties would see the adoption of another trinity of new amendments as well as the addition of new territory. The creation of the state of Norteño out of states seceding from Mexico would see the Brotherhood back in charge and they fully intended to use that control while they had it. The 25th Amendment would cap personal wealth to one million dollars in a bid to curb income inequality, though Supreme Court rulings that this number was subject to inflation and did not cover investments sapped it of its intended effect somewhat. The 26th Amendment wasn't strictly a new one, merely stripping out the language in the 24th Amendment requiring the drafting of those voting yes in a war referendum, especially in light of now universal women's suffrage. Although a Prohibition amendment was proposed, it was ultimately shot down as too divisive in the ethnically diverse United States of the Earth, with the 27th Amendment merely making public intoxication a federal crime, leaving a patchwork of wet and dry states to decide the issue on their own.

Spoiler: The War Referendum

As war loomed in Europe, the USE remained firmly uninterested, instead focusing its attention on the threat Japan posed to the Philippines and the rest of the vast nation's pacific territory. The Axis Powers may have been sure of themselves but they weren't insane, with Japanese officials shooting down any plan that involved antagonizing the New World Colossus in any way, keeping Germany and Italy uninvolved in the process. Largely sitting out the early stages of World War II, the citizens of the USE would be moved to action by atrocities in Europe and the Pacific, invoking a War Referendum for the first time. Although the 26th Amendment removed the threat of an automatic draft, vast numbers of men and women reported for duty in the wake of the declaration of war, with the sea of troops turning the tide and the vast military buildup bringing the country roaring out of the Great Depression. In the wake of the conflict the Populists would be apoplectic. Having largely opposed the war, firebrands in the party viewed the new state of South Japan as yet another insult to the American national character, even as the voluntary annexation of Australia after the war drew less criticism for... reasons best not discussed. Although in terms of sheer numbers the Brotherhood held an edge, the public was war weary as the conflict finally ended, with low voter turnout largely credited with the ensuing Populist victory. Populist control of the House would see two new amendments, with the 28th Amendment creating a federal income tax to ease the cost of prohibition, though the maximum rate of the tax was limited to 25% or less. The 29th Amendment guaranteed the right of citizens to voluntarily segregate themselves.

Spoiler: The Triumvirate Era

The late 20th Century would see the globe divided roughly into three vast power blocks. Spilling out from the New World, the United States of the Earth held dominion over all the remaining independent nations of the Americas, with states from the Japanese Islands to Liberia. Canada, India and vast chunks of Africa were directly suborned into the vast imperial Franco-British Union, with the rest of Western Europe firmly in thrall. Holding the heartland of the world island was the Fourth International, with the USSR and the PRC jointly holding court over Asia's proletarians in the face of colonialism whether from Europe or the Americas. The vast industrialization that characterized the early phase of the Triumvirate Era would play havoc with the world's climate, leading directly to the passage of the 30th Amendment creating an inalienable right to a healthy and livable environment. In practice the passage of the 29th Amendment, combined with the origin of West Virginia, had created a precedent for the division of existing states in the event of "irreconcilable differences", which Supreme Court statute determined need only involve the federal government if the result would cross existing state lines. The fracturing of the vast states established by the Cooperative Brotherhood would make the passage of new amendments difficult going forward, but perhaps given the wild shifts the Constitution had undergone over the preceding century perhaps that was for the best.

 

[Born in the USSA]

In a world where Edward Bellamy never got tuberculosis and the temperance movement settled on a different source of government revenue to replace liquor taxes things are bound to get weird 🤔 It's also inspired a bit by this vignette:

Student: George Foles (Class 2019)
University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Course Materials for Hist 511- Ecological Parties and Politics in America and Europe
Professor J. Stein
I. COURSE OUTLINE
The intention of this course is to study how Ecological politics have affected the landscape in the United States, Canada, and Europe. We will begin by studying the thinkers and theorists who came up with most important aspects of Ecological thought, namely the population theories of Malthus and Ehrlich and the "Harsh Climates, Strong Men" theories of Frank Herbert. We will continue by researching why the political Right ended up championing this cause, and how leftists and liberals responded to theories of Global Warming and Overpopulation. Finally, we will discuss how Ecological and Population theories shaped the domestic and foreign policies of the Reagan and Vander Jagt administrations, with a focus on the Birthrate Crisis of the 80's domestically and the Great East Africa Famines of 1983 and 1993, the Settler Wars in Southern Afrika, and the Subcontinental War.

II. Reading materials
An Essay on the Principle of Population- Thomas Malthus
Theodore Roosevelt and the Beginnings of Conservative Conservationism- John Byrnes
Silent Spring- Rachel Carson
Dune- Frank Herbert
The Population Bomb- Paul R. Ehrlich
Victory Over the Sun: How Tony Mazzocchi Fought for a Better Green Politics- Connor Kilpatrick
Nixonland: The Wild 4-Year Term of Richard Nixon- Rick Perlstein
Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72- Hunter S. Thompson
Green Libertarianism- Barry Goldwater
WaPo Editorial: "Building a Clean Environment", by Ronald Reagan (1/13/1976)
My Wild Campaign Ride- Frank Herbert
Vanguard of Civilization: America's Role in Oranj Frei Staat, The Cape, Angola, Mozambique, Tswanalandt, and the Rhodesias- John Bolton
The Ecology Party Manifesto for the 1981 Election- Tony Whittaker and Edward Goldsmith
The OVP, The Greens, and the Battle for the Soul of Green Politics- Ralph Nader
Wanderer: David Icke, Ecology, the Liberals, and the UK's 8th Party System- Owen Jones
Famine- Charles Dolan
Wildman: The Two Careers of David Attenborough- Nick Hornby
Reason Magazine Special Issue: BIRTHRATE CRISIS (1985)
Approaches to Population Control- John H. Tanton
To The Children I Can Never Have- Ta-Neishi Coates
The Scorching of the Subcontinent- Pankaj Mishra
The Republican Party Platform 1992- Various
Malthus, Reagan, and Icke: The Greenwashing of Genocide- Michael Ignatieff
Open Air Prisons: Life in the "Reservations" of Southern Africa- Steven Pienaar
LIARS!: How the Right Uses Sham "Global Warming" Science to Attack the Working Man- Steve Bannon

III. Lecture Schedule
Lectures shall be from 10:00-12:00 AM Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays from 9/25-1/15, with the exception of Thanksgiving Week and Winter Vacation. Office hours shall be the same days from 3:00-6:00 PM.

IV. Grading
Attendance- 10%
Quizzes- 25%
Essays- 25%
Final Exam- 40%

The Commonwealth Temperance League originated in a coalition of temperance groups and was founded in 1910 in the wake of the wake of outreach to the Single Tax movement in the hopes of creating a source of revenue to entice states away from a reliance on liquor taxes. Combining the Land Value Tax with the thorough use of sin taxes and other pigouvian taxes to modify behavior, the CWTL takes an extremely rigid stance on environmental stewardship, though they have a conspicuous tendency to apply this most harshly on groups they deem "foreign" to the country. They're still fuming that Prohibition never became constitutional but have an extremely tight grip on the South and West.

The National Nonpartisan League, founded in 1915 by noted author and social theorist Edward Bellamy, sought to counter the danger of economic monopolies through a robust program of bringing industrial and agriculture under state control. Popular among the wet states, the NNPL devotes itself to economic nationalization while championing freedom of choice in the individual and blasts sin taxes as an unwarranted intrusion of the government into public life. Most successful in the Great Lakes, the Northeast and parts of California, the NNPL is considered the champion of the hyphenated Americans, fully supporting minority language rights. The NNPL has a dodgy record on the environment, preferring increased industrialization to better serve the national interest.

 

[Born in the USSA]

Here's a little something I'm calling The Laboratories of Democracy, an Underground Airlines scenario where Lincoln is assassinated before he can be inaugurated but the much more vaguely worded but narrower Corwin Amendment is passed in response instead of the expansive and explicitly pro-slavery Crittenden Compromise. Naturally an amendment banning interference in the "domestic affairs" of states is going to be used by far more interest groups than just the Slave Power.

Here's something that occurred to me out of the blue today! If you haven't read it the novel Underground Airlines is an alternate history story set in a present day where Lincoln was assassinated before his inauguration, the Crittenden Compromise was passed to avert the Civil War, and four states still practice slavery. The system is industrialized, the US is a global pariah, and the Hard Four have no intention to give it up.

Anyway, I got to thinking and remembered the Corwin Amendment that was floating around at about the same time and it kinda snowballed from there. Unlike the Crittenden Compromise, which featured six amendments that explicitly enshrined slavery behind an eternity clause, the Corwin Amendment made no mention of preserving slavery from constitutional changes, only the "domestic institutions" of the states. As I explored that language I came up with a whole host of knock-on effects, though the Supreme Court has drawn a pretty inclusive circle around what counts as "interstate activity", preventing the entirety of the federal government from becoming a farce.

1. Obviously slavery is maintained without escalating to a civil war, though the continual slave revolts and languishing economies prevent its expansion beyond the South. Despite attempts at industrialization slave revolts are still endemic and the Radical Party is constantly escalating the situation.
2. After Utah achieves statehood the LDS church reaffirms the doctrine of polygamy. Radicals in Congress are furious but legally there isn't anything they can do once the state constitution gets amended.
3. In a bid to defend their language rights, states with the largest percentages of German speakers are able to force the issue of English/German bilingualism, successfully suing the federal government in 1910 to preserve them.
4. A version of the Indian Citizenship Act is still passed in the twenties and, newly possessing of US citizenship, the tribes begin a torrent of legal appeals to be recognized under the same sovereignty granted to the states by the Corwin Amendment. It'll take some time but they'll eventually get their way.
5. Expect a whole tide of mass migrations, as groups move to states where they have a demographic advantage to preserve their preferred policies come hell or high water against the Constitution. Among other things Louisiana and Mississippi have become black majority and their neighbors are really irritated by it.

Welcome to the "United" States of America, a nation with at least three regional Quebecs, pretty solid rights for indigenous peoples, slavery dying a slow death, and suffrage and Prohibition forming an infuriating patchwork of policies. Long live the laboratories of democracy 😂

Electoral politics and voting laws are a bit of a hash but the electoral system can be broken up into regional parties and single-issue ones- fusion tickets are common but can get pretty schizophrenic if you're trying to make sense of the national level. To make things a little easier, an amendment reforming the presidency into a three member Executive Council to ensure regional representation (sponsored by Virginia's Albert Jenkins and Ohio's Milton Southard) passes a few years later. Under the Jenkins-Southard Amendment the top three electoral vote winners for president become a trifecta and exercise the traditional presidential powers by simple majority vote, while the vice-presidency is shared between the top two electoral vote winners for that role. It... doesn't work out as well as it should 🤔

The Big Tents

• The Redemption Party has the broadest base almost by default. Originally merely the proslavery wing of the Democratic Party, the Redeemers were less than thrilled when the amendment they supported to preserve slavery blew up in their faces. The party of the status quo, exactly what that means depends on the facts on the ground, with the party passing a hodgepodge of state party platforms during election years rather than a unified national one. Often squeaking into power they're too disjointed to actually do anything, but that keeps the other parties out and that's good enough at the end of the day.
• The Radical Party grew out of the frustrated abolitionist wing of the Republicans, eventually coming to dominate most of the North. The party has steadily moved to the left from its original position in large part to a torrent of radical European immigrants, backing German-English bilingualism in the states around the Great Lakes over the objections of more conservative members. It lost them New England but gained them enduring popularity that's served them to this day in the Old Northwest and the Great Plains.
• The Workingmen's Party is dominant on the West Coast and the Southwest, combining an economic policy to the left of the Radicals with a racial and language policy that would put them right at home with the Southern Redeemers. Naturally this puts them beyond the pale for one reason or another, and then tend to only caucus among themselves.
• The Liberty Party has branded itself the inheritor of the original abolitionist party of that name. Operating on a platform of racial equality, the Liberty Party caters to free slaves and their descendents, Hispanics and the various Indian tribes. The smallest of the Big Tent parties, Liberty typically caucuses with the Radicals and is the dominant party in Louisiana, Mississippi, Florida and Santo Domingo.

The One-Trick Ponies

• The Reform Party really wants to be a Big Tent, but as a party specifically catering to "Mormon issues" it's pretty much overwhelmingly dominant in Utah and only the major opposition in the rest of the Mormon Corridor. There's lingering prejudice against them from the Redeemers, Radicals and Workingmen, but they've struck up a pretty cordial relationship with Liberty around the issue of rights for minority religions and caucus with them regularly.
• The Equal Rights Party fights tooth and nail for women's suffrage, with every state west of the Mississippi having passed it and several of the holdouts in the eastern states at least considering it. Another frequent collaborator with the Radicals, their historic embrace of eugenics has nonetheless burned their bridges with the Liberty Party.
• The Prohibition Party is still kicking, having made prohibition the law of the land in around a third of the states. Technically the smallest party with an actual presence in Congress, the Prohibition Party almost overwhelmingly goes along with whatever line the Redeemers want to take.

 

[Born in the USSA]

Here's a little something different, a party system for a surviving Confederacy inspired by me learning that the Democrats in the Confederate Congress lost seats to Whigs in the second Confederate election cycle and deciding to make one data point a trend 🤔 Color me surprised! In any case, Lincoln is elected but assassinated early, with President Hamlin losing the 1864 election to McClellan and the Confederacy going its own way.

It's not all sunshine and roses for Dixie, with the the collapse of the Northern Democrats in the aftermath leaving a National Union Party more than willing to use protectionism against the Confederacy and a Radical Democracy Party that views overt abolitionism (and covert support for slave uprisings) to be a winning strategy. In any case, this post isn't about those parties.

• The Constitutional Union Party has grown in the fertile southern soil and has displaced the Democrats as the natural party of government in the CSA. Declaring that their highest virtue is the defense of the (Confederate) Constitution, the CUP pursues a policy of Whiggish internal improvements in order to simultaneously boost the Southron economy and better centralize the fractured states in the face of lingering Yankee aggression. As the party of the constitutional order any attempt to end the peculiar institution is a nonstarter- it's baked in and not going anywhere. God help us all.
• The Readjuster Party is very much the underdog of Confederate politics- even putting aside the fact that it's the only party that offers membership to nonwhites the whole "form a populist coalition to topple the planter class" doesn't win them any friends from the political establishment. Although constant state suppression has all but transformed the party into a secret society, it has grown slowly but steadily in Appalachia by absorbing the remaining Southern Unionists and appealing to the growing populist tendency rejecting the economic devastation caused by the preservation of slavery.

 

[Retiarius]

Before I begin, I'd like to pour one out for @Born in the USSA for basically holding up this thread by their thumbs. And for all the Georgism. You're one of the greats, BitU. Now, without further ado, here's a whole slew of party systems.

First Party System: Begins in 1788, with independent federalist Washington's election; characterized by a Federalist consensus upset by opposition from southern Republicans and northern Tolerants. Rising tensions caused by war and economics lead to threat of civil war and unsustainable political strife. Ends in 1820, with the upset election of John Marshall.
Second Party System: Begins in 1826, in which the Republicans overtook the Tolerants in the North, returning as the Federalists' main opposition on a national level. Relatively stable disputes over trade, banking and immigration. Reached its zenith in the mid-1840s, in which nearly every candidate for public office was weighing in on the Exchequer Board.
Third Party System: Some say this system began with the Slingerland Amendment, or as early as the Brazos delegates denying President Wright renomination in 1848. But most believe that it really took hold in 1860, when the Anti-Rent Coalition won a plurality of votes in the national elections only to be stymied by a Federalist-Republican agreement. This era would see mounting activism against the two main parties until President Hayes passed the 13th Amendment in 1877.
Fourth Party System: 1880 would see the unlikely reinvention of the Federalists under Alexander H. H. Stuart, as the party of moderation and respect for local traditions. With this strategy they would finally edge out the Republicans and usher in a stable two-party paradigm. Both the Federalists and the ARC would implicitly accept the Right to Land (and later emancipation), but would come to blows over the scope of radicalism and reform. Came to a close in 1912, when Federalist Frank Hanly won the nomination and the nation vowing to ban alcohol.
Fifth Party System: Starts with the impeachment and reëlection of Smedley Butler, and the resulting downfall of the Federalist Party after twenty years of dominance. Initially results in the return of the ARC, then the emergence of the Democratic Party to oppose their accelerating social changes and partiality towards China. Economic concerns are largely mollified by the burgeoning middle class, so most debates are on social and foreign policy. Noted for low turnout.
Sixth Party System: Began with the discovery of massive foreign interference in the 1976 election, from both the United Commonwealth and the Nation of China. Foreign policy immediately became off-limits for debate, leaving few points of contention save for social policy and labour rights. Environmentalism would also emerge as an issue, with the ARChers broadly in favour and the Democrats largely against.

I might make this into a longer list later. Stay tuned, I guess.

 

[Reyne]

Hello guys. Im sorry if im butting in for a thread that is only supposed to be about the US, but here is a strange political system for Portugal!

POD: Humberto Delgado's election as president of Portugal goes through - he ends the Salazarist dictatorship through political means!

Partido Federal - The Federal Party of Portugal was born just after the election of Humberto Delgado as he moved against Prime Minister Salazar to re-establish a multi-party system. They were forged out of a coalition of National Union center-right deserters, and center right-left critics of the dictatorship. They have been the most popular party since the establishment of the Federal Republic of Portugal and have provided most presidents and prime ministers of the country. They have usually followed a centrist, sometimes center-right policy of governance. The new millenium hasn't been kind to the party however, as the other parties finally picked up the slack and generations who did not experience the dictatorship or it's aftermath took up a large portion of the voting block.

União Nacional - The remnants of the Salazarist regime post-dictatorship, the National Union managed to survive through the very hostile environment post-Salazar and re-branded the party as a Nationalistic, slightly populistic party with a strong backing amongst the rural and working populace of the country. They adopted a new economic policy of dirigism, social conservatism, anti-racist and pro-federalism and pro-colony stance after the revolution, praising Humberto for his foundation of the Federal Republic but his quick devolution of powers to the colonial rebels which resulted in untold consequences for the new-born countries and Portugal itself. The National Union currently holds the presidency and will probably win re-election due to the current President's good handling of the Covid Crisis.

Partido Social Democrata - The Social Democrats of Portugal arose from the revolution as the strongest leftist party to emerge. Despite the democratization of Portugal, Delgado was still a man of the right, and a very anti-marxist one at that. Thus, the delusions of a socialist state imagined by socialists, communists and christian socialists of the country were quickly shattered. From the moderates remnants of would-be leftist revolutionaires originated the Social Democratic party, who would soon prove the second biggest party of the country and the constant oposition to the Federalists. The Social Democrats lost in popularity after the 2013 crash, after their government was unable to respond to the crisis and fell.

Partido Renovador - One of the Fringe parties of the Federal Republic, the Renovator party holds a few seats as the loud voices of the right. They are ultra-nationalistic, eurosceptic and anti-immigrant, but they have been forced to tone down their open racism after the remaining African possessions of Portugal such as Sao Tomé e Principe and Cabo Verde and even East Timor and Macau in Asia chose to remain within the Federation. They have, for a far-right party, strangely adopted a program of supporting miscigenation and calling the Portuguese people "A union of races to form one people".