I could use some help with a premise. I have the crazy notion to combine a wank of the Technical Alliance (the thinktank that invented the concept of technocracy and disbanded after releasing it's Energy Survey in the early 30's) with a presidency of Fiorello La Guardia.
My basic thoughts are that La Guardia goes from Congress to the Senate instead of to Alderman and then onto the Vice Presidency instead of Mayor of New York and that the president dies, leaving him in charge. As VP La Guardia's pet project would be adopting the Technical Alliance as a federal committee after they release their survey and once he becomes president he'd start implementing policies they advise. The goal of this TL is to combine the progressive response (which grew in the 20's and then found itself competing with fascism and other ideologies during the Depression of the 30's) to the Depression with the technocracy movement to create something that hasn't been portrayed before.
I know an Italian-American Vice-President at that point in American history isn't incredibly likely, but bear with me if you would.
Any advice for how to implement these ideas into a coherent timeline? How long does a Congressman usually take before a successful bid for Senate? For a Senator to get on the presidential candidate ticket? Is there precedent for the government adopting independent thinktanks as special advisory committees? What are some policies that you think a technocratic thinktank in the 1930's might suggest and how might their techno-progressivism differ from the New Deal progressivism of FDR from OTL?
My basic thoughts are that La Guardia goes from Congress to the Senate instead of to Alderman and then onto the Vice Presidency instead of Mayor of New York and that the president dies, leaving him in charge. As VP La Guardia's pet project would be adopting the Technical Alliance as a federal committee after they release their survey and once he becomes president he'd start implementing policies they advise. The goal of this TL is to combine the progressive response (which grew in the 20's and then found itself competing with fascism and other ideologies during the Depression of the 30's) to the Depression with the technocracy movement to create something that hasn't been portrayed before.
I know an Italian-American Vice-President at that point in American history isn't incredibly likely, but bear with me if you would.
Any advice for how to implement these ideas into a coherent timeline? How long does a Congressman usually take before a successful bid for Senate? For a Senator to get on the presidential candidate ticket? Is there precedent for the government adopting independent thinktanks as special advisory committees? What are some policies that you think a technocratic thinktank in the 1930's might suggest and how might their techno-progressivism differ from the New Deal progressivism of FDR from OTL?