DBWI: What if America had become a democracy?

I heard that before making George Washington the first Emperor, the Founding fathers seriously considered allowing everyone to vote. What would such a world look like?
 
I have no idea who the "Founding Fathers" you refer to were. George Washington was an ambitious British army officer who betrayed Pennsylvania, which he was supposed to defend, to the French, who installed him as a puppet "Emperor of America" as a kind of joke. Once the British reconquered the area they of course hanged him. There was no change of the "American Empire", a Bourbon protectorate, of becoming a democracy. Democratic institutions did of course later develop in the commonwealths that were formed from the British colonies.
 
I heard that before making George Washington the first Emperor, the Founding fathers seriously considered allowing everyone to vote. What would such a world look like?

Probably a lot less corruption and incompetence, for one.....I mean, sure, universal democracies aren't always perfect, but look at Canada, the Union of Northern America, Cascadia, and Mexico; all of which are presidential democracies with a high amount of development on the Schroeder-Stevens scale, according to the International Human Rights & Development Agency-those are the models to look to.
 
Probably a lot less corruption and incompetence, for one.....I mean, sure, universal democracies aren't always perfect, but look at Canada, the Union of Northern America, Cascadia, and Mexico; all of which are presidential democracies with a high amount of development on the Schroeder-Stevens scale, according to the International Human Rights & Development Agency-those are the models to look to.

Well yeah, especially when all these "presidents" are just another title for the Emperor. And that scale...it certainly does help that 5 of the 7 sitting council-states of the IHRDA are part of the greater Empire.
 
Well yeah, especially when all these "presidents" are just another title for the Emperor. And that scale...it certainly does help that 5 of the 7 sitting council-states of the IHRDA are part of the greater Empire.

Erm, what? None of what you've said is even close to true-assuming this isn't just you messing with us, are you one of those conspiracy buffs who actually thinks that the First American Empire never died and actually secretly rules the entirety of North America? I'm only asking because it's a surprisingly widespread thing that even these governments themselves have had to address.

For anybody out there who may have been genuinely fooled by this admittedly elaborate hoax, here is the information to prove it:

World Factbook: Confederation of Canada
World Factbook: Union of Northern America
World Factbook: United Mexican States
World Factbook: Confederation of Cascadia
World Factbook: International Human Rights & Development Agency

See? Nothing about Presidents being a substitute title for "Emperor", or any of these four countries being part of a "Greater American Empire"- in fact, the original American Empire never even got west of the Mississippi, outside of Louisiana! (And Sequoyah + the Arkansas Commonwealth aren't even a core part of the Second Empire, but, rather, peripheries of such).


And, btw, folks, just FYI, the World Factbook is run by a NGO non-profit out of Switzerland.

OOC: Said conspiracy theory isn't quite as widespread as the entirely of JFK or 9/11 conspiracy theories, though.
 
Expect the yanks to try and install similar systems the world over and fail.

And expect the rich to win
 
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