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Yeah, the Municipalists are relatively benign. Still, they're ultraconservative collectivists who want to abolish the nation-state, what remains of privacy and every barrier between church and (city)-state. Municipalists tend to be incredibly nice and compassionate people, but if one believes that synths are people, then the Municipalists want to commit genocide. The Municipalists are fine with homosexuals and transgender people, but they better get married and conform to traditional gender roles. They're capitalists, but they believe that corporations and any other form of "legal fiction" should be eliminated so that enterprise can be conducted between real people. They're anti-institutionalist, because they believe that there should only be one institution, society, that everyone must conform to whether it brings them personal happiness or not. Freedom means something very different to them than it does to our contemporary society.
Also, they want to tear down every building built since 1904, at least ones made in any sort of modernist style, and replace it with some nice historicist buildings. (This made the old logo impossibly ironic).
However, they are nonviolent in both policy and politics, and denounce direct action or revolution. And not all Municipalists adhere to every piece of Municipalist canon. The Metropole Quebecois, for example, reject the Citizen's Manifesto in particular and urban conservatism in general. (Albeit I guess that makes them worse, not better.)
Really, Municipalism is alien and seemingly idiosyncratic, but so is almost every ideology of 2068.
So, climate change basically made most people politically insane?
Also, are there any major purely social democratic or/and paleoliberal parties out there?
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So this, will probably be the last of the Ukraine series for now. I may come back, but I want to go work on some other areas beforehand.
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The 2064 Ukrainian Parliamentary Elections were an important step forward for the country. The Second Black Tide had already sunk Ukraine's leading Neo-Putinist parties, dividing the country into roughly two factions. On one side, you had the progressives, such as the Network Movement, the All-Slav Free Union and other minor parties. On the other, you had the ultranationalists, Including Our Land/Self-Defense and Svoboda. In the last election, the Network Movement and Svoboda emerged as the leading parties. The Network Party promised peace, liberties, and reform. Svoboda promised confrontation with Russia. The Movement ended the election with a fairly narrow edge over Svoboda in the Rada, but the coalition with the All-Slav Free Union and securing the presidency meant that Ukraine would be safe from Svoboda's attempts to establish a United Poland-esque regime. With Neo-Putinism dead in the Ukraine, space has opened up for other smaller parties to rise and share their ideas. However, tensions are still high, both with Poland and Russia, meaning that the appeal of the ultranationalists is not diminished.
This year, six parties crossed the 5% threshold to earn proportional representation seats.
Network Movement: While the Network Movement's ratings were still in the green coming into the election, the party's appeal had fallen since the 2059 elections. In that year, many Ukrainians employed tactical voting to push them ahead of Svoboda in order to secure a moderate government. While the Movement's ratings skyrocketed after the Polish invasion was peacefully prevented, some Ukrainians are feeling buyer's remorse. Transhumanism is still very controversial, and the party's Zentrum ties are also unappealing to many. However, with Our Land/Self-Defence taking Svoboda's place as a threat to peace, few desire a divided Rada and the risk of a nationalist coup. Thus, the Network Movement, is still the largest party in the Rada, even if it lost a number of its seats.
Our Land/Self-Defense: An observer unfamiliar with Ukrainian politics may mistake Our Land/Self-Defense and Svoboda as cookie-cutter maximalist populists. In reality, Our Land/Self-Defense is an old-school ethnic nationalist party, closer to liberal ultranationalists like Russia's Liberal Democrats or China's One China party. While Svoboda's nationalism is rooted in anti-Russian sentiment, Our Land/Self-Defense is for ethnic Ukrainians only, and wants to marginalize the Poles along with the Russians. With the near-invasion by Poland serving as a humiliation to Svoboda, Our Land/Self-Defense has become the leading ultranationalist party in Ukraine, having the greatest positive swing of any party in the 2064 elections.
All-Slav Free Union: The partnership with the Network Movement has been good for the Union. For some Ukrainians, a vote for the Union is a vote for the government without voting for transhumanism, and thus the party has grown at the Network Movement's expense. With the balance of power shifting between the two partners, many in the party have begun to question whether the Union should remain part of the government, or if it should attempt to form a government on its own in 2069.
Maiden Party: Named after the squares in which their forums meet, the Maiden party is the Municipalist party of Ukraine. The fierce suppression of Muncipalism by the New Bolshevik government in Russia forced many of Municaplists to seek refugee in Ukraine, who have become the core of a rejuvenated Muncipalist movement in the country. The Maiden party has had some trouble finding its niche in Ukrainian politics, but have gained some popularity for taking a leading role in local government in Kharkov, Donetsk, and Kiev.
Green-Agrarian Bloc: The Green-Agrarian bloc is a unity list comprised of multiple mutualist, market socialist and unreformed socialist parties. Populist in nature, the Green-Agrarians have benefited immensely from Svoboda's fall, taking votes from Svoboda's "economic voters."
Svoboda: Svoboda has fallen far. One moment, they were at the cusp of gaining enough power to stage a coup, causing enough confusion for Polish soldiers to stream through the borders and prop up Svoboda's regime. The next, they were soundly defeated at the polls, and their ties with the United Polish regime, albeit not their plans, were revealed to the world. It's a surprise that they didn't fall farther, as only vigorous campaigning allowed them to stay above the threshold. Svoboda's politics can be described as a form national anarchism, with heavy emphasis on agrarianism and establishing a "warrior culture."
Very interesting future timeline idea)
But there is some mistakes with the Ukrainain names. Such as - Petro Bohatenko, not Pyotr, Vira Motruk, not Vera (unlikely, that nationalist use Russian version of name). Also, in Russia and Ukrain short versions of are not official, so Pavel/Pavlo Ozerov, not Pavlik, Svetlana/Svitlana Belenko, not Sveta. And name "Kirill Sokolova" is very strange. Kirill/Kirilo is the men's name, Sokolova - women's surname (men's version - Sokolov).
Jesus. Not sure if I've said this before but your fathers stars series is genuinely something else. You put a heck of a lot of detail into this, and the whole thing is so masterfully crafted it sends a chill down your spine to read. Very plausible stuff indeed, you do some great work in 'looking outside of the box', really do love these future ideologies you craft. Those party logos are really pretty!
Don't know what in particular I'd like to see next, honestly whatever you put out is bound to be interesting. I'd be very curious to read some more about the ideologies of the 2060's for sure. I'd be interested to know what the nations governed by transhumanist parties are like. How are things going over in Sierra Leone, Guinea and Singapore?
In the immediate aftermath of Neil Hamilton's arrest, Welsh UKIP was in shambles. It had barely any money left, and the surprisingly ill health of both the national party and its leader left it tainted by association. With the Welsh Conservatives ascribing to the One Nation views preached by Cameron and his successor May, many former members found themselves lost in the wilderness. In came the Abolish The Welsh Assembly Party (or AWAP). Its leader, David Bevan, capitalized on the collapse by inviting Kippers into their ranks. The Newport West by-election proved fruitful for 'the' AWAP, as their star candidate Jeremy Pugh easily retained their deposit.
Quickly, the party amassed councillors, most of whom were UKIP defectors from North Wales, the party's biggest hotspot. Members and other figures within the party took steps to make sure that its public image wasn't simply 'UKIP Mark II' by announcing support for replacing the Assembly with a system of directly elected mayors and strengthened Welsh councils, and also shifting their attacks to corporations that shipped Welsh jobs overseas. The snap general election in mid-2017, following the triggering of Article 50, wasn't a boon for the party, but they did well enough to retain their deposits in about a third of the seats they contested.
Nigel Farage finally retired from public life in 2020, following the loss of his job in the European Parliament. His successor, Paul Nutall, failed to have the same media presence, and the party withered, especially in Wales. AWAP was gaining steam as dissatisfaction with the conduct in the Senedd reached an all time high. The economic malaise continued under May, who's leadership was hanging on by a thread at this point. The 2021 Welsh Elections were excellent for AWAP, who won 3 seats and narrowly beat the Liberal Democrats in terms of the popular vote. An electoral alliance with the Welsh Christian Party at the council level would also lead to good results down the line.
In the following years, AWAP's tune began to change as they gained more power with each successive election. A new generation meant that they were to drift even further away from their original party goal, instead becoming something that more closely resembled a merge between Nick Clegg and Douglas Carswell. Their major accomplishment in government so far has been implementing a strong mayoralship for Cardiff, along with many high profile transport projects along the impoverished parts of Wales.
But they still haven't got on with abolishing the fucking Welsh Assembly.
The previous election, done in an infobox?
I..., I can actually do that. Both presidential and congressional.
No, you are.
(The new emojis burn my very soul.)
Insanity is relative. People say that the GOP is insane, and they're pretty darn popular. People said that Marxism was insane, and it still set the world on fire. Even if it is insane, that doesn't mean that's necessarily a negative.More seriously, the collapse of liberal democracy in the west was a crushing blow dealt to the concept of progress and the ideologies that were built on it, be that Burkean conservatism, traditional liberalism, or social democracy. Continuing secularization, the erosion of national sovereignty, and the growing acceptance of drug use and LGBT+ persons lead to traditional social conservatism becoming obsolete. These things, as well as the ongoing rejection against postmodernism in the arts, precipitated the Incidentalist movement. Incidentalism states that truth can only be incidental, that is, stumbled upon, and that it is impossible to either perfectly represent or construct truth. When applied to philosophy, it lead to Organicism. Organicism divides the entire human experience into two categories: organic, or authentic things, and artificial, or inauthentic things. For something to be organic, it has to be crafted as a collective and unconscious experience with no end goal in mind. Artificial things, on the other hand, are consciously crafted by distinct individuals who seek a goal. Organicism holds that the authentic is superior to the inauthentic, and that climate change and the chaos of the 20th and 21st centuries are the result of humanity burdening itself with too many inauthentic ideals that are ultimately incompatible with humans' unconscious nature.
Thus, Municipalism is the politics of Organicism. Many of the Maximalist Populists, and National Syndicalist/Anarchists also claim to represent the philosophy, but Municipalism is probably the purest form of this political ideal.
So, some of the Organicist categorizations:
LGBT Experience: Organic
Synthetics: Artificial
Liberalism: Artificial
Marxism: Artificial
Cities: Organic
Nation-State: Artificial
Modernism (Art): Artificial
Religion: Organic
Religious Institutions: Artificial
Market Exchange: Organic
Corporate Law: Artificial
Folk/Traditional Music: Organic
Pop/Commercial Music: Artificial
(Direct) Democracy: Organic
Privacy: Artificial
Right to be Left Alone: Artificial
Social Democracy is a dead, dead, dead ideology. Dead as Social Credit.
- The consensus is that Thomas Piketty was right, and the period of the North Atlantic welfare state was a historical quirk that is impossible to replicate through policy.
- The failure of Social Democratic revival in the 20s only further sullied the ideology's reputation.
- Most European Social Democracy parties signed onto the Vienna Declaration, abandoning their former ideals (which they were really only paying lip service to), in exchange for Post-Liberalism and Technocracy.
- Most Asian and African Social Democratic parties either followed suit and signed with the Zentrum, or either adopted other ideologies.
(It would be very insensitive to compare these new emojis to cancer. I would not do that.)
I use name generators to hammer out names for the timeline, as I'm kinda bad at them. I'd never get anything done if I had to come up with names on my own. I guess the Ukrainian name-list was just bad. I can make those changes easily. Thanks for letting me know.
Singapore is something I'd like to do, as I haven't done much with East Asia yet. I also need to do more with Africa. I'm glad that you're enjoying it.
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Here's a Brexit related infobox, based on the PoD that David Cameron remains Prime Minister following the Brexit vote and refuses to leaves the EU, citing the difference of only 4% as being too small to base such a major decision off of when so many MPs back Remain. This leads to a revolt within the Conservative Party as Boris Johnson, Michael Gove, and other Eurosceptic conservatives call for the ousting of Cameron and demand that he listen to the will of the people. While the Leavers lack the majority to force Cameron out of the Conservative Party leadership they manage to strike a deal with Labour to call a vote of no confidence, triggering a general election.
By making the general election about the Brexit vote the UKIP reforms itself into a big tent party, seeking both right and left wing populists who opposed the EU and Westminister government. Besides promising for a day one triggering of Article 50 of the Lisbon treaty they also call for a more federalized government, giving local authorities more and opening the possibilities for devolution of more regions in England. This lead to all the Leaver MPs jumping ship from the Conservative Party to the UKIP.
Meanwhile in the Labour Party the more moderate MPs in the party call a vote of no confidence against Corbyn (as in OTL) and hold a leadership election in which Angela Eagle is elected. Corbyn supporters, dissatisfied with the result and worried that Blairites may have gained power once again found the Socialist Solidarity party to serve the interests of Labour's left-wing. This leads to massive fracturing on the left as well as the Labour exposes the Marxist and Trotskyist influences within Corbyn's party and frames them as Leaver commies, calling themselves the only left-wing party which supports the EU.
With regards to the other two major parties Nicola Sturgeon announces that if Leavers come into power she will declare the unilateral independence of Scotland in order to stay in the EU. And Tim Farron's Liberal Democrats, seeing the chaos surrounding them try to position themselves as the only non-crazy, non-corrupt party that will campaign on the single issue of staying in the EU.
Come October 13th the UKIP does far better than expected, though not reaching the same level of support that it had in the referendum, due to a combination of Bregret, higher turnouts among the younger population, a split of Leavers voters in the North with Socialist Solidarity.
The Conservative Party ended up experiencing the largest downward swing in UK political history as millions of Leavers jump ship to the UKIP and protest Cameron's failure to carry through with Brexit. The Labour Party loses almost 100 seats as millions of votes are siphoning off Socialist Solidarity and the UKIP makes massive gains in the North. Turned off by Sturgeon's secessionist rhetoric many moderate remain voters in Scotland vote for the Liberal Democrats, resulting their loss of two seats. And finally the Liberal Democrats, Socialist Solidarity, and a multitude of smaller parties, often representing only one constituency, gains a handful seats, though not enough to prevent the UKIP from gaining a majority.
In short, the remain vote remains too divided between left leaning Labour, the right leaning Tories, and the centrist Liberal Democrats for the Leavers to be stopped and with Nigel Farage commanding a vast majority in parliament he triggers Article 50, setting off a chain of events that polarize British politics even further.
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In honor of Australia's elections tomorrow, here is the 2013 Australian federal election if it were held under the binomial voting system! What is binomial voting, you ask? Well, in both Poland before the collapse of the regime and in Chile before 2013, each constituency received two MPs. An electoral alliance would receive one MP if it attained at least 33.4% of the vote, and if the majority of the winning electoral alliance was double that of the other one and had a minimum of 66.7% of the vote, they'd receive both MPs. In Chile, this enabled the former pro-dictatorial Alliance to continue to be relevant in their politics despite receiving far less of the vote than the democratic opposition parties' electoral alliance Concertación, and effectively prevented minor parties from emerging while essentially empowering party leaders over the voters. For these reasons, it was abolished. However, under the framework of the Two-Party Preferred vote in Australia's IRV system, both the 2013 and the 2010 Australian federal elections turned out fairly proportional!
The binomial voting system gave us 159/300 = 53%, 141/300 =47%. This is actually far more proportional than OTL's 2013 Australian federal election, wherein the Liberal/National Coalition received 60% of the seats and Labor received 37%. I was expecting it to spew out an amusingly weird result because this system does not work at all in theory, but it somehow works in practice.
The binomial voting system gave us 159/300 = 53%, 141/300 =47%. This is actually far more proportional than OTL's 2013 Australian federal election, wherein the Liberal/National Coalition received 60% of the seats and Labor received 37%. I was expecting it to spew out an amusingly weird result because this system does not work at all in theory, but it somehow works in practice.
In honor of Australia's elections tomorrow, here is the 2013 Australian federal election if it were held under the binomial voting system! What is binomial voting, you ask? Well, in both Poland before the collapse of the regime and in Chile before 2013, each constituency received two MPs. An electoral alliance would receive one MP if it attained at least 33.4% of the vote, and if the majority of the winning electoral alliance was double that of the other one and had a minimum of 66.7% of the vote, they'd receive both MPs. In Chile, this enabled the former pro-dictatorial Alliance to continue to be relevant in their politics despite receiving far less of the vote than the democratic opposition parties' electoral alliance Concertación, and effectively prevented minor parties from emerging while essentially empowering party leaders over the voters. For these reasons, it was abolished. However, under the framework of the Two-Party Preferred vote in Australia's IRV system, both the 2013 and the 2010 Australian federal elections turned out fairly proportional!
The binomial voting system gave us 159/300 = 53%, 141/300 =47%. This is actually far more proportional than OTL's 2013 Australian federal election, wherein the Liberal/National Coalition received 60% of the seats and Labor received 37%. I was expecting it to spew out an amusingly weird result because this system does not work at all in theory, but it somehow works in practice.
Really interesting. I actually was imagining a (probably ridiculous) theoretical voting system where each riding has 2 MPs, if no candidate has a majority, then the winner and runner-up are elected, while if one party has a majority, two MPs from that party are elected.
Am I dreaming?
It's so beautiful...
It's times like this that I shit my pants.
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Hmmm, sorry about that, as my source stated "This system forces the parties to form electoral coalitions because the effective threshold is very high: 33.4 per cent of the total vote for the top list is required to win one seat. However, a list needs to receive 66.7 per cent of the total vote to be guaranteed both seats." http://www.idea.int/elections/upload/chile_esd.pdf
I guess that's an effective threshold and not a legal one? Regardless, due to TPP, there was no party that received a result double that of the second-place party which wasn't at least 66.7%.
Well, I found population projections (accurate, dunno, but comprehensive!) for U.S. 2060, and after a adding a couple multipliers for major changes in certain states, I'm way off for house size. With the Wyoming rule, I'm looking at 714 seats in the house and 822 electoral votes, instead of 525 and 633 respectively. I'm going to need to redo those bars on all of my U.S. boxes.
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