Alternate Wikipedia Infoboxes II
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I think he said he made wikiboxes but chose not to post them, so we got a random list of colored names instead, but I could be wrong; I'm really hoping that I'm wrong.
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I believe he meant the file was too big to attach directly given this site's upload limits. He needs to imagehost it in that case.
Remind me to answer this question later. For now, something else:
List of Gave Me Liberty infoboxes:
President Ernest R. Paul
Cynthia Wells, President of the Red Cross
Librian Free Women's Militia
Libria State Assembly
Operation Fever Dream
Continental Army Strategic Artillery Corps
Zebulon Pike
Wasatch Insurgency
New York Special Public Authority for Cosmic Exploration and Science (NY SPACES)
New York Ballot Question No. 244
John Jason Astor VI
Empire Party of New York
Workingman's Party of New York
2011 Jacksonville tax demonstrations
Georgia Occupation Authority
Concerned Citizens Against Standardized Testing
U.S. Federal Penitentiary No. 1
Ricky Newsome, Batlimore Titans No. 62
California v. Approximately 20,000 Pounds of Whale Meat
Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission
Republic of South Carolina
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The Solar Social Democratic Party is one of the two major parties on a national level in the Solar Federation, along with the centre-right Solar Democratic Party. It currently governs in a coalition with the Solar Green Party and the Solar Socialist Party, and receives confidence and supply from the Solar Farmers' League. They are also closely tied to the labour movement, especially in Europe. Their policies include single-payer healthcare (several Solar Republics have single-payer, while those that don't are covered by a Dutch-style system) , free higher education (implemented during the 2120s), legalization of same-sex marriage and marijuana (marijuana is legal everywhere in the SF except Venus, and gay marriage has been legal throughout the SF's existence), and opposing racism directed towards the sapient natives of Europa, Titan, and Enceladus (the only other celestial bodies other than Earth in the Solar System that support life).
My guess is that it's 'parliament'. Aka actually just the State Assemblies all totalled up and called 'parliament'.
Why not just use a Bundesrat-type deal then? Makes things a lot more manageable.
It may not be meant to work smoothly or well. I mean, most of the SDP's major party planks are things that have already been achieved (universal health care, free higher education, same-sex marriage, etc), so maybe the system is highly ossified and everyone's just in it for the graft now.
Most power is in the hands of the Solar Republics (Venus, former USA, Mexico+Spanish Caribbean+Central America, former EU, to name a few), so the Parliament's main job is to elect a Prime Minister every few years (and this a formality; political parties have already negotiated who they'll support for PM by the time Parliament votes) However, when they actually do vote on something, it's done online (this takes a few hours, since there are representatives from Venus to Triton), and there's very little debate.
Not really, Parliamentarians are via some form of PR determined by the Solar Republics (usually STV, D'Hondt, MMP, or Sainte-Lague), and seats allocated to each Republic are done proportionally. But again, it's a very weak institution and the results of votes are arranged between the ruling political parties (currently the SDP, the Greens, and the Socialists). It's something of a rubber stamp institution; it's main use is to see how many votes each political party has in order to determine the PM.
Corruption's definitely an issue with the SF. The SDP isn't nearly as bad as the VFL (which is really just a corruption dispensary), but they aren't exactly clean either. The giant Parliament is designed so as to make votes prearranged. Parliament has a meaning (elect the pm), but each Parliamentarian doesn't.
Also, I feel I should point something out since it seems to be overlooked quite a lot by some of our American members: excessive social liberalism such as marijuana liberalisation is not a fundamental part of social democratic ideology. While I may well stand corrected on this point, I don't think any European social democratic party actually advocates for its legalisation - this sort of thing is chiefly in the domain of liberals in Europe, who are a completely different beast.
Well, I'm interested to see how he can reconcile the two very different traditions of American and European liberalism in one party.
And it would be nice to see what sort of--for lack of a better term--futuristic political issues that they're dealing with and how they fit in TTL's political spectrum and parties.
Keep in mind that although the SF is certainly more European than American, the Americans of the SDP at least (basically the Congressional Progressive Caucus and the Greens) regard marijuana legalization as a major issue, and the ex-PES members are more preoccupied with economic issues than social ones, so it was able to become part of the SDP platform.
A Solar Liberal Party would actually probably remained relatively united, since UHC is something of a sacred institution in Europe and Canada, so the more socialised American liberalism could find its way into an SLP. There'd be struggles, but overall I think they'd do okay.
I think some major political issues would be how to deal with of the Titanians, Europans, and Enceladans (the Solar Socialist Party, and the SDP, the a hypothetical Solar Liberal Party, and the Solar Greens in particular would probably be friendly towards other species, while the Conservatives, a hypothetical Social Credit Party, the Farmers' League and some really far-right people would probably be hostile towards other species), Robotic labour (mostly an issue the Solar Greens are preoccupied with; TTL's equivalent to nuclear power), and the migration of Earth farming to Venus (leftists are against it except for the Farmers; League, while rightists, and the Liberals are against trying to stop it, and the Farmers' League is very strongly for it, in no small part due to the fact that the Farmers' League is almost entirely composed of the VFL)
So what's the Solar System like here overall?
Habitability? Aliens? And who else is out there other than the Solar folks?
Habitability? Aliens? And who else is out there other than the Solar folks?
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