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Hey, so I absolutely suck at graphics, so:
- Any advice on how I could get better would be very, very much appreciated.
- Could someone please do a picture of a 1920s-era Celtic!British (as, in very much NOT OTL-British) soldier from a TL where the Anglo-Saxon colonization wasn't nearly as extensive (keep in mind that TTL's British have more in common with the Irish than they do with OTL's British. I mean, it's probably obvious, but, well...)?
The "ninth book" [but published in 2017 as Volume Zero, to show it is not in the typical series] of A History of the American Left, by Professor Maite Etxeberria, is called America First, America Always, and deals with a controversial subject that they deal with careful analysis, that of the role of the Nationalists and the so-called "nationalist left" in American politics, and where to classify them
Unlike other books which deal with a specific party, this is more like the SDP book in how it looks at a specific strain and how it evolved over time, the "nationalist left". The first chapter of this deals with, surprisingly enough, the Democratic Party of Grover Blaine's day. It analyses how Blaine's conservative-populism and isolationism affected a lot of Americans and led to the rise of a group of people who Etxeberria dubs "national-populists". In 1919, the Democratic Party was long since dead, but the Progressives, led by Waldus Beck, carried the national-populists in their party. Beck's coalition was originally the rural farmers and Social Gospel voters and so tended to carry a lot of national-populists, but his increasing co-operation with the strongly internationalist President Fitzgerald alienated a lot of them and led to former Representative Rupert Larson and Representative Richard Blaine splitting off to form the Nationalist Party, the first of many "nationalist-left" parties.
The Nationalist Party's zenith was when they successfully got President Jay Gatling to push through a referendum on the global Council of Nations and if America should remain a part of it. Before that, they carved out an odd path where they solidly supported civil rights for blacks while drawing in many antisemites attracted by Larson's railing against the "globalists". Larson himself always declared himself to be not bigoted against any race, and famously declared that "this party is the party every Jew should support". Larson himself opposed antisemitism firmly and expelled many who expressed overtly antisemitic views and firmly condemned the pogroms committed during the Sweltering Summers, but those pogroms were done by Nationalists and Larson found himself having to regularly expel party members for their actions, which gave the Nationalists a bad name as the "antisemitic party".
After the CoN referendum led to a landslide defeat for the Nationalists, they entered a period of decline and eventually disbanded in the 1940s as isolationism was increasingly unpopular with an America much more confident in the global scene. Rupert Larson ended up bemoaning the party being taken over by open antisemites and called for the paramilitary wing to disband and leave the party.
The nationalist left would return in the late 20th century, first with the National Front set up by ex-Patriotic Independent Anthony Harris. Harris was directly inspired by Larson and the Nationalist Party. Harris was someone who was once a firm segregationist and ally of Vice-President Harry Wright, but unlike many, the chaos of the 1960s led him to be more liberal on civil rights and come out in favour of the NAACP and of civil rights reform, even though he stayed in the Dixie Party and then the Patriotic Independent Party. He believed he could turn the PIP away from segregationism and towards national-populism, but the nomination of the libertarian Calvin Trexler in 1972 led him to bolt and form the National Front. Harris is well remembered today as the Secretary of State during the worst period of American foreign policy, that of fighting the Germans in the war that turned nuclear. Harris, for all his claiming to be the heir of Larson, turned out to be quite the war hawk and thus got condemnation from Larson's descendant, the next person to set up a nationalist-left party. The National Front, of course, didn't survive the 1980s.
In the turbulent 1980s, the rise of radicals led to the rise of the nationalist-left led by George Larson-Smith. Larson-Smith was Rupert Larson's grandson, and looked up to his grandfather as a hero unjustly treated by America. GLS [as he was commonly referred to as] was first a member of the Radical Party, but once that became a member of the future Democratic Choice and signed up to Arya Moon's committed internationalism, GLS bolted and declared that the National Left Party would be set up, with him and William Blaine [Richard's great-grandson] as its leaders. GLS was very much a firm "Larsonite", but if he expected Blaine to be like his great-grandfather, he was to be sorely disappointed as Blaine's war experiences led him to be more firmly progressive, leading to the split that would bring the party down from success.
George Larson-Smith firmly condemned anything to do with foreign countries as "internationalist schemes", hence the more hardline antisemites flocked to the party, something that deeply concerned William Blaine and led to the expelling of several members for antisemitic attacks. GLS entered in negotiation with the conservative National Alliance to stop the left-wing administration of Arya Moon, uniting solely on the basis of their isolationism. Their ticket was firmly a foreign policy one, and it led to the split between GLS and Blaine as the later opposed the idea, first declaring his independent campaign, then an invitation from President Moon came.
Moon's first pick for running-mate after deciding to drop Edward Dewey was General John Wickham, 1988 National Alliance presidential nominee, but Wickham ended up declining due to a health scare. Blaine was her next choice as a running mate who would weaken the isolationist ticket by reeling in disaffected National Left voters who voted for the isolationist left, not the isolationist left. Blaine, motivated by his burning hatred of Larson-Smith and Moon's firm promise that all foreign wars would be over by the end of her third term, agreed. But then he got cancer and had to withdraw, Moon ended up picking Reformist Governor Regina Icemore, and the ticket lost 1992. GLS was not oblivious to Blaine's support in the party, and successfully purged the "Blaineites" from the party, committing it to being a purely "Larsonite" party, one of isolationism above socialism. GLS would serve as Vice-President from 1993 to 1997, but split from the Barclay Administration over Barclay's betrayal of the agreement and committing America further to war in Eastern Europe. The National Left ended up fading and as GLS announced his retirement, the party ended up being taken over by a relatively left-wing leader that merged the party into the Radicals in the end [and that merged into DC].
George Larson-Smith and William Blaine insisted up to the end of their lives that the National Left did not have an issue with antisemitism, only that "some" antisemites decided to join the party. The story would end there if it was written barely seven years before. But Etxeberria decided to include two more parties, and their inclusion is rather controversial as it was Our Millennium and Americans Elect. Our Millennium started as the grassroots "March on K Street" movement railing against dynasties, corporations, the elite controlling politics, and that led to a problem with antisemitism. President Bennett was acutely aware of this problem, often found in the party's "right", so to speak, as they talked of the New World Order, of dynasties being secretly Jews or allied with Jews, and ultimately a big chunk of them [but not all] left to join DeBrossard to form Americans Elect, a more conspirational party where DeBrossard and the party leadership talked of betrayal of principles, but a chunk of the membership talked of Bennett as the NWO "plant" designed to undermine the movement and continue the Jewish dynastical regime.
Antisemitism has a long and unpleasant presence in the American left, and even the best and brightest of the left worked with parties associated with antisemitism, such as Louis Orléans incorporating the Nationalists into Vox Populi, and Arya Moon promising to limit further "internationalist schemes" in order to get William Blaine on board as her running mate. But there were people on the left who consistently opposed antisemitism, including many Jews such as Samuel Franklin and Rosa Luxemburg. Presidents Orléans and Moon had limits on how far they would deal with the nationalist-left of their day, with Orléans never appointing a Nationalist to his cabinet despite several requests and Moon only dealing with William Blaine who represented the more genuine left of the party and never with GLS who represented the mainstream conspirational part.
But even today, antisemitism remains a presence in the left that sorely needs to be cleaned out.
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A vile piece of globalist propaganda indeed. Neither the Nationalists nor the National Left where ever antisemitic and the Larson family estate will need to undertake legal actions against Mr. Etxeberria for this obvious slander.
I know you never explicitly said it was antisemitic but your rhetoric in the game heavily implied the parties were antisemitic or at least was hospitable to them
And Professor Etxeberria (who identifies as gender neutral by the way) never labelled the Larson family antisemitic, only that there was a debate on Rupert Larson, which is backed up by several scholarly works and they presented in a way they feels is neutral and balanced. The presence of antisemitism in the Nationalist Party and National Left is something well founded on surveys and secondary sources such as For the Many not the Jew: Antisemitism in the National Left by Doctor Flanders and The Northern Sweltering Summers: Antisemitic Pogroms in the 1920s by the Simpson siblings. Professor Etxeberria stands by what they wrote and sees the threat of a court case as threatening academic freedom
That was never intended and I can say for certain that neither Larson nor GLS were antisemitic and during their domination over their respective parties antisemitism (or any racism for that mater) was not tolerated.
I mean, they did kind of rail against globalist conspiracies, internationalist schemes, call every politician a puppet of the internationalist cabal, talk of its tendrils grabbing America, and even invoked Ein Volk Ein Reich Ein Fuhrer once
They went too close for me to actually believe that the party did not have antisemitic people in its ranks. I can believe that neither Larson or GLS were antisemitic, but their party's rank and file?
@black_0: What I can do, is rewrite it so that Larson and GLS were explicitly opposed to antisemitism and purged those who went overt with it, as well as condemn pogroms, just to show that the leadership were firmly against antisemitism. The parties will still have problems with antisemitism and antisemitic attacks will still be likely committed by Nationalists but it will be decidedly not tolerated by the leadership
Is that more within your view of the parties?
Is that more within your view of the parties?
You don't need to rewrite it since it is in-universe book after all so Etxaberria may have been biased against American left-wing nationalist. But if you don't mind a rewrite then go for it.
Guys, maybe you could help me: I've been trying to find a Wiki-style drawn version of this coat of arms featuring Milan's very own scrofa semilanuta, but all I can find are photos.
Maybe someone can try their hand at making an Inkscape'd/Photoshop'd version of it? It'd make a nice alternate CoA for a Visconti-less Milan-based state and, since the boar was quite popular as a heraldic animal in the Gaulish world (in fact, Gauls are the reason why this she-boar ended up as a symbol of the city since antiquity), @LSCatilina could find it very useful for his own TL.
Maybe someone can try their hand at making an Inkscape'd/Photoshop'd version of it? It'd make a nice alternate CoA for a Visconti-less Milan-based state and, since the boar was quite popular as a heraldic animal in the Gaulish world (in fact, Gauls are the reason why this she-boar ended up as a symbol of the city since antiquity), @LSCatilina could find it very useful for his own TL.
An average splash screen for the Imperial Web Service in the early days of commercial availability. Created by the state owned Fenster Company, the internet soon took off with great success and popularity inside of the Kaiserreich, the Reichspakt countries, and later most of the world. Spinoff web services soon arose in the United States, the French Empire, Canada, and even the isolated Union of Britain (albeit in a more regressive form.) The World Wide Web now is a great and influential force in the world, being a renowned place for social discussion, political information, world news, and overall entertainment.
(All interface translated for an English audience)
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More details in my DeviantArt
PS:
This latest post of mine is dedicated to @LSCatilina
BlackentheBorg
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"Now that you've found another key/What are you going to play?"
(a teaser for yet another thing that might never materialise)
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No, I'm afraid that's already been done masterfully by Emperor Norton & Glass Onion's "The End of the Beginning". The premise for this one is "Sgt. Pepper" is never conceived of.
I'm thinking this is a logo for an alternate conservative party in Ontario. Obviously the 'C' is currently used by the Conservative Party but I have made a stylized logo that combined the loyalist pre-1801 union back hearkening back to the tory origins of the present conservative movement.
You know, it might be interesting to write a story along the lines of "Okay, if Paul is dead OTL... what if he lived?" Seeing as so much of the Beatles' innovative albums were made with Campbell as a massive influence, and so many of their songs were inspired by Paul's death.