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Three riffs on the theme of unity.
1) In a parliamentary USA, Rodney King's famous quote causes him to launch a small social-democratic party. It eventually is folded into the Left Alliance USA.
2) Japan after WWII embraces its multiethnic origins (indigenous Ainu/Jomon + Yamato + Ryukuan/Okinawan + over a millennium of Chinese and Korean presence = today's Japanese ethnic group).
3) The very syncretic nature of Yoruba-inspired religions results in a philosophical movement in Latin America, the Caribbean, and later Europe that emphasizes the shared truths and unity of the world's religions. Author VS Naipaul (Indo-Trinidadian, where the Yoruba-based Trinidad Orisha and Spiritual Baptist religions combine Christianity, west African, European, and even some Hindu/Buddhist/Kabbalah influences) becomes an exponent and founding father of the movement in the 1960s, attracting the interest of Italian rightist Julius Evola. Today, Yoruba Perennialism is one of the main streams of the Traditionalist Right and is seen as an alternative to fascism, liberalism, and socialism rooted in centuries of tradition (and occultism) from around the world. Yes, La Corte Vikinga is a thing; it's a sect of Venezuelan Santeria that worships Erik the Red.
1) In a parliamentary USA, Rodney King's famous quote causes him to launch a small social-democratic party. It eventually is folded into the Left Alliance USA.
2) Japan after WWII embraces its multiethnic origins (indigenous Ainu/Jomon + Yamato + Ryukuan/Okinawan + over a millennium of Chinese and Korean presence = today's Japanese ethnic group).
3) The very syncretic nature of Yoruba-inspired religions results in a philosophical movement in Latin America, the Caribbean, and later Europe that emphasizes the shared truths and unity of the world's religions. Author VS Naipaul (Indo-Trinidadian, where the Yoruba-based Trinidad Orisha and Spiritual Baptist religions combine Christianity, west African, European, and even some Hindu/Buddhist/Kabbalah influences) becomes an exponent and founding father of the movement in the 1960s, attracting the interest of Italian rightist Julius Evola. Today, Yoruba Perennialism is one of the main streams of the Traditionalist Right and is seen as an alternative to fascism, liberalism, and socialism rooted in centuries of tradition (and occultism) from around the world. Yes, La Corte Vikinga is a thing; it's a sect of Venezuelan Santeria that worships Erik the Red.
The United States Presidential Election of 1928 if Coolidge had ran.
(I think I did good on this one, what do you guys think?)
(I think I did good on this one, what do you guys think?)
Labour probably wouldn't have won the likes of St Albans and Gillingham in a Brown-Heseltine 1997 election, but I'd say a 1966 scale Labour victory would be likely. Many of Brown's issues as PM came from the fact that he had been in frontline politics for so long; had he come in as LOTO in the 1990s then he may well have been seen in a similar light to John Smith - a safe, steady pair of hands but still with an air of newness.
The 1997 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday, 1 May 1997, five years after the last election in 1992, to elect 659 members to the House of Commons. The election was won by the Labour Party led by Gordon Brown, their first election victory since 1974 and the largest ever seat total won by Labour in an election (eclipsing Clement Attlee's feat of 393 seats). The election saw the end to 18 years of Conservative rule.
The election was held at the end of a turbulent five year period in government for the Conservatives, who had overseen unpopular policies, an internal war over Europe that continued to rage on, the resignation of John Major less than two years before the election was due as well as an economy in recession. Polling suggested at its worst the Tories could lose seats across the country on an unprecedented scale, including in their rural heartlands in southern England. Before Major's departure in July 1995, the Conservatives were twenty-five points behind Labour on average in the polls. The Opposition, on the other hand, were led by the young Gordon Brown, who was seen as a moderniser on the left. Under Brown's leadership, Labour had moved towards their centre, moving away from the traditionally left-wing stance of the party in a bid to win more Tory–Labour swing voters. Brown pledged to build a "Britain fit for the new millennium" and the Labour manifesto included democratic reform, more funding for the health service, better economic management than the Conservatives and devolution settlements for Scotland and Wales. Crucially, the manifesto did not pledge to return the railways or other industries into public hands and promised to maintain Britain's nuclear arsenal and increase defence spending, which drew criticism from the left of the party. Brown's decision to abandon the party's commitment to socialism in 1999 further inflamed tensions within the party but represented the change in direction the leadership had chosen.
The Labour campaign was ultimately successful, winning the backing of much of the media (including Rupert Murdoch's The Sun and The Times, who had consistently supported the Conservatives under Thatcher and Major). An enormous 8.4% swing from the Conservatives to Labour saw the party win in seats that they had not even put on their target lists. The Tories were wiped out in Scotland, thanks additionally to an SNP surge, and Wales and saw many current and former cabinet ministers lose their seats, including Norman Lamont, Malcolm Rifkind and Edwina Currie. Defence Secretary Michael Portillo held his own seat in Enfield Southgate by just over 1,000 votes. A record number of women were elected to parliament, 113, of whom 97 were Labour MPs. This was in part thanks to Labour's policy of using all-women shortlists.
The defeat was the Conservatives worst since 1945 in terms of seats and worst ever in terms of votes. Nonetheless, many later believed that Heseltine's stable leadership in the last couple of years of the parliament prevented the result from being even worse for the government and the exit poll had predicted an even heavier Conservative defeat of less than 175 seats, which did not materialise. This was in part due to the relative 'success' the Conservatives had in Conservative–Liberal Democrat marginals, which prevented the Conservatives hemorrhaging dozens of seats on a second front. The Liberal Democrats had hoped to make a breakthrough but instead saw a drop in their vote share. Whilst they did win 13 seats and record the best result of a third party since the 1930s, the night was considered a disappointment for the Liberal Democrats as well as the Conservatives. Heseltine announced his resignation the day after the election. A handful of weeks after the election, Paddy Ashdown also announced his resignation as leader of the Liberal Democrats.
Previous Wikiboxes:
1994 Labour leadership election – https://www.alternatehistory.com/fo...nt-politics-here.430177/page-84#post-16577918
1995 Conservative leadership election – https://www.alternatehistory.com/fo...nt-politics-here.430177/page-84#post-16579400
The election was held at the end of a turbulent five year period in government for the Conservatives, who had overseen unpopular policies, an internal war over Europe that continued to rage on, the resignation of John Major less than two years before the election was due as well as an economy in recession. Polling suggested at its worst the Tories could lose seats across the country on an unprecedented scale, including in their rural heartlands in southern England. Before Major's departure in July 1995, the Conservatives were twenty-five points behind Labour on average in the polls. The Opposition, on the other hand, were led by the young Gordon Brown, who was seen as a moderniser on the left. Under Brown's leadership, Labour had moved towards their centre, moving away from the traditionally left-wing stance of the party in a bid to win more Tory–Labour swing voters. Brown pledged to build a "Britain fit for the new millennium" and the Labour manifesto included democratic reform, more funding for the health service, better economic management than the Conservatives and devolution settlements for Scotland and Wales. Crucially, the manifesto did not pledge to return the railways or other industries into public hands and promised to maintain Britain's nuclear arsenal and increase defence spending, which drew criticism from the left of the party. Brown's decision to abandon the party's commitment to socialism in 1999 further inflamed tensions within the party but represented the change in direction the leadership had chosen.
The Labour campaign was ultimately successful, winning the backing of much of the media (including Rupert Murdoch's The Sun and The Times, who had consistently supported the Conservatives under Thatcher and Major). An enormous 8.4% swing from the Conservatives to Labour saw the party win in seats that they had not even put on their target lists. The Tories were wiped out in Scotland, thanks additionally to an SNP surge, and Wales and saw many current and former cabinet ministers lose their seats, including Norman Lamont, Malcolm Rifkind and Edwina Currie. Defence Secretary Michael Portillo held his own seat in Enfield Southgate by just over 1,000 votes. A record number of women were elected to parliament, 113, of whom 97 were Labour MPs. This was in part thanks to Labour's policy of using all-women shortlists.
The defeat was the Conservatives worst since 1945 in terms of seats and worst ever in terms of votes. Nonetheless, many later believed that Heseltine's stable leadership in the last couple of years of the parliament prevented the result from being even worse for the government and the exit poll had predicted an even heavier Conservative defeat of less than 175 seats, which did not materialise. This was in part due to the relative 'success' the Conservatives had in Conservative–Liberal Democrat marginals, which prevented the Conservatives hemorrhaging dozens of seats on a second front. The Liberal Democrats had hoped to make a breakthrough but instead saw a drop in their vote share. Whilst they did win 13 seats and record the best result of a third party since the 1930s, the night was considered a disappointment for the Liberal Democrats as well as the Conservatives. Heseltine announced his resignation the day after the election. A handful of weeks after the election, Paddy Ashdown also announced his resignation as leader of the Liberal Democrats.
Previous Wikiboxes:
1994 Labour leadership election – https://www.alternatehistory.com/fo...nt-politics-here.430177/page-84#post-16577918
1995 Conservative leadership election – https://www.alternatehistory.com/fo...nt-politics-here.430177/page-84#post-16579400
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[Sorry if this gets into Current Politics too much.]
In a particularly troublesome election, the incumbent party decided to go with a respected person who had an impeccable record to them. A very qualified candidate to succeed a very successful president, indeed! Sure, there was the rabble-rousing Senator from a very white state who strongly opposed Governor Tilden, but who listened to James G. Blaine from the State of Maine anyway?
The opposition party had other ideas, and in the end, they chose a populist demagogue who appealed to people's darkest fears, who stoked their anger against a minority and made strong avowals that "the Chinese must go!". Yes, Governor Denis Kearney was a very, very dangerous man. Despite attempts at a "Not-Kearney Labor" ticket, the Labor voters got on board. Anything to stop the Nationals!
It was a filthy campaign in which Kearney's statements regularly got into press and Tilden's honesty was attacked at every turn by Labor newspapers. When a newspaper alleged that Kearney killed a man in cold blood, he declared it "false news!" In the end, the American people chose to vote for Tilden and for another four years of the Nationals. The Electoral College, however, had other ideas...
Welcome, folks, to the Kearney Administration and the 1880s, an era of fear, danger and menace.
This is part of my "19th-century-socialist" thing that I should really give a name one day...
In a particularly troublesome election, the incumbent party decided to go with a respected person who had an impeccable record to them. A very qualified candidate to succeed a very successful president, indeed! Sure, there was the rabble-rousing Senator from a very white state who strongly opposed Governor Tilden, but who listened to James G. Blaine from the State of Maine anyway?
The opposition party had other ideas, and in the end, they chose a populist demagogue who appealed to people's darkest fears, who stoked their anger against a minority and made strong avowals that "the Chinese must go!". Yes, Governor Denis Kearney was a very, very dangerous man. Despite attempts at a "Not-Kearney Labor" ticket, the Labor voters got on board. Anything to stop the Nationals!
It was a filthy campaign in which Kearney's statements regularly got into press and Tilden's honesty was attacked at every turn by Labor newspapers. When a newspaper alleged that Kearney killed a man in cold blood, he declared it "false news!" In the end, the American people chose to vote for Tilden and for another four years of the Nationals. The Electoral College, however, had other ideas...
Welcome, folks, to the Kearney Administration and the 1880s, an era of fear, danger and menace.
This is part of my "19th-century-socialist" thing that I should really give a name one day...
The United States Presidential Election of 1928 if Coolidge had ran.
(I think I did good on this one, what do you guys think?)
Your count is a bit off. I think according to that map, Smith should get more electoral votes.
Not to be confused with Rule 35: Peace is good for business.
Or Rule 36: what is good for buisness changes, always keep two oppisite things, so that if one falls completely out of fashion, you can rely on the other.
A "slightly" ASB wikipedia box. What if, instead of being killed in his cell in the Bloody Tower, Edward V, had been saved by being ISOTed away from that dreadful place by an Alien Space Bat, who sadly didn't realize that he'd taken so long to put the young king, back into reality until 530 years later.
He returns to his cell, on the Wednesday 26th June, 2013, in a flash of light and smoke, observed by a tour group. The video of his reappearance goes viral and he is quickly taken to Buckingham Palace, in the royal carriage, avoiding all modern vehicles and people, where his 14th Great-grandniece, Elizabeth II, Queen of the United Kingdom, greets him and talks to him about where he is and what has happened.
Elizabeth II, takes his mysterious return as a religious event and believes that the young King, was returned to his country to continue his reign. Elizabeth, appoints him as her heir and abdicates on the Friday, Edward is pronounced as King Edward IX, he then appoints Elizabeth as Duchess of Edinburgh and as Regent to him until he reaches 18, on 2 November 2018, saying that although he was an ancestor of this 87 year old lady, he was now orphaned and found her an idyllic mothering figure to guide him though his new reign.
He is quickly, but thoroughly, taught of the advances in technology, society, religion and politics.
He would later marry Lady Louise Windsor, the grand daughter of Duchess Elizabeth Windsor, through her fourth child, Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex.
He returns to his cell, on the Wednesday 26th June, 2013, in a flash of light and smoke, observed by a tour group. The video of his reappearance goes viral and he is quickly taken to Buckingham Palace, in the royal carriage, avoiding all modern vehicles and people, where his 14th Great-grandniece, Elizabeth II, Queen of the United Kingdom, greets him and talks to him about where he is and what has happened.
Elizabeth II, takes his mysterious return as a religious event and believes that the young King, was returned to his country to continue his reign. Elizabeth, appoints him as her heir and abdicates on the Friday, Edward is pronounced as King Edward IX, he then appoints Elizabeth as Duchess of Edinburgh and as Regent to him until he reaches 18, on 2 November 2018, saying that although he was an ancestor of this 87 year old lady, he was now orphaned and found her an idyllic mothering figure to guide him though his new reign.
He is quickly, but thoroughly, taught of the advances in technology, society, religion and politics.
He would later marry Lady Louise Windsor, the grand daughter of Duchess Elizabeth Windsor, through her fourth child, Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex.
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Here's a concept box I made. Basically, the PoD is the South winning the Civil War. In the 20th Century both nations had Socialist revolutions. The one in the US was open to Democracy, meanwhile, in the CSA, the Long family takes over. I used the flag of Vietnam as a placeholder because I have no flag making skills
"Who's the Pope?"
Sylvester IV (born Thomas Stewart Baker; 20 January 1934) is the 264th and current Pope of the Roman Catholic Church, belong as Bishop of Rome and sovereign monarch of Vatican State. Sylvester is the second English to hold the Papacy (with Adrian IV) and the first non-Italian since the Dutch Adrian VI. Baker was born in Liverpool, England. His parents, his mother, Mary Jane (a cleaner) and John Stewart (a seaman) were working class and devout Roman Catholics. From 1940 to 1949, Baker attended Cheswardine Boarding School and at 15 he became a novice monk with the Roman Catholic Brothers of Ploermel in Jersey and later in Shropshire, when he decided to become priest in 1951.In 1959, he was ordinated by then-Bishop of Liverpool John Heenan and began his humanitarian mission along with other English priests in India, until 1962. In December 1962, during Second Vatican Council, the young priest attended many of the meetings in Rome and was delighted with the words of the then-Bishop of Milan Giovanni Montini. When Pope John XXIII died in June 1963, "we all thought that the Council and the Church would stop there", Baker said in his My Way to Found God (1995). But, later when the Council was finished, he returned to England and was relocated to Diocese of Lancaster, when he stayed by nine years. In 1974, however, Pope Paul VI indicated him to succeed James Cunningham as Bishop of Hexham and Newcastle and later, despite his friendship with Pope Montini, he was created Cardinal at age 43 in the last consistory held by Paul VI. [1] In 1978, when Paul VI died, Baker wasn't papabili as the press sold it about, but he denied to be a compromise candidate enter the cardinals. [2] He stayed working in his diocese coming personally to help in the distribution of food and clothing weekly in front of St Mary's Cathedral.
In October 1985, the matured and progressive cardinal was nominated by Pope John Paul I to become Archbishop of Westminster, after the suddenly death of Basil Hume two months before. Now as primate of the United Kingdom, Baker quickly agreed with the Pontiff to talk with Anglican authorities. That was fundamental to the success of Pope's tour on UK in late-1987, when the Holiness, along with Robert Runcie, conducted a ecumenical mass in Canterbury Cathedral. [3] The time passed, he worked a lot in Westminster, but in 10 May 1994, John Paul I passed away at age of 81. In the Conclave, Thomas Baker, Carlo Maria Martini and Joseph Ratzinger emerged as papabili by the press, following the College of Cardinals insiders' rumours. So, after three ballots, in 8 June 1994, after long talks with his colleagues, the compromise enter moderates, progressives and some conservatives also, Baker was elected Pope, tooking the name of Sylvester. [4]
Since that, Pope Sylvester showed his charisma and affection by the faithful and the poor people around the world. The first internation trip was to Kolkatta, in early-1995 when he met Mother Teresa and came back to the places he worked as monk. Later in that year, the Pontiff visited London and a held a mass with more than one-hundred-thousand people in Wembley Stadium. In 1997, after "hard and lovely work", Vatican published the first Sylvester's encyclic: Diliges proximum tuum urging Catholics around the world, when possible, to help their brother, regardless of the problem that is happening. But the Sylvester's greatest move came in 1998 when His Holiness helped governments of United Kingdom, Ireland and Northern Ireland to deal and stop "The Troubles", which have finally been terminated through the Rome Agreements, signed in early-1999 at his presence in Vatican City. By this, Robin Cook, David Trimble, Bertie Ahern and Pope Sylvester were laureated with Nobel Peace Prize in that year.
In year 2000 Newyear's Day, the Pope himself opened the Holy Door of Basilica of St. Peter, making the consecration of the Universe and humanity. [5] Over that, Sylvester also criticized "the voracity of modern capitalism" in his famous speech in Canada (2002), and the "laziness that overlaps faith" in Australia (2003). In 2004, Sylvester shocked the world with his second encyclic Amor et hominibus when talked openly about homossexual marriages, which he said "which isn't a sin, because the brotherly love that happens between them, neither is it". At the wave of allegations and revelations of cases of children sexual abuse in the Catholic Church in 2005, Sylvester established a permanent commission to identify and denounce abusive clerics, counting on the collaboration of intelligence police from dozens of countries worldwide. In 2010, after the peak of global economic crisis, Sylvester wrote his third encyclic, Aequalitas et iustitiae, heavily criticizing the capitalist system which later generated the "Anti-Commie Pope" move in USA, leaded by Alex Jones.
In 2012, rumours of his abdication came down with his world tour in South America and Asia, when he denied them and was marked by the candy distribution in Belo Horizonte, at the Global Youth Day (2013). In 2014, he turned 80 and returned to Liverpool when he announced which would bring to the Cardinalate the archbishop of Saint Andrews and Edinburgh Percy Kent-Smith, his longtime friend. As 2018, Pope Sylvester still "strong and steadfast in faith" as himself said in the 2017 Christmas mass in Vatican City. He He enjoys a popularity shortly before in the history of the Catholic Church, and still studies the possibility of convening a council around his 25th year anniversary of papacy (and after his 85th birthday) in 2019. [6]
[1] "I felt that the Holy Spirit entered me definitively through Aggiornamento and that was a wonderful hour to speak with English Catholic community about the faith." (The Man who Walked Without Fear, 2002).
[2] "I was too young for that job. Spiritual maturation was still a necessity of mine person at that moment." (My Way to Found God, 1995)
[3] "That was a great moment. I definitively realized that I was making good...and fair. To anybody, and any faith. And wasn't a merely deal. Was the construction of one the most important and respectful bridges of interreligious dialogue in the last 30 years." (The Honor of Two Traditions, 2013)
[4] "Many things have happened to me since Jersey times. But that...that was really the providence and fullness that God gave me, that I've never felt before, and only in my death I'll feel again." (The Work of the Church, 2017)
[5] "God, omnipresent father. We are here to serve and thank you for everything you have done. So I intercede with my brethren in faith for the immensity of the Universe which you have created with perfection in every detail, and to all of us, part of this blessed creation and instrument of your will, so that the peace of Christ may reign forever in our hearts and lifes. Amen." (Pope Sylvester's praying at January 1, 2000's mass in Vatican City)
[6]"Did you, from press, said I'm one of the most popular people in the World, right? But that's not quite allright. [laughs] I was in...Paris, 2011. Then, a lady come to me...and asked me if I don't know the name of an street that went to Notre Dame. I said so: 'Do you want a ride up to there?', and she denied saying: 'these old people are trying to impress us everyday!' [laughs]" (except from BBC's interview with Pope Sylvester IV, 2017)
List of the Presidents of Virginia
Virginia is a nation with a rich political history and hopefully, this can show you a bit about it. Feel free to ask any questions about the nation's history. And by the way on the Big question of slavery, Because of International pressure Virginia Abolished slavery in the late 1830s and Virginia has become a place of many prominent African American politicians and figures.
Virginia is a nation with a rich political history and hopefully, this can show you a bit about it. Feel free to ask any questions about the nation's history. And by the way on the Big question of slavery, Because of International pressure Virginia Abolished slavery in the late 1830s and Virginia has become a place of many prominent African American politicians and figures.
The System of Government is Basically just a parliamentary election with the Leader of the largest party becoming head of state under the name of "President". In this timeline, many Nations use the same system including California and Hanover
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