16.Abraham Lincoln (Communist)
(March 4th,1861-January 15th,1862)
1860 Def: William H. Seward (Republican) James Buchanan (Democratic)
President Lincoln was an unlikely man not destined for high political office if one was to ask anyone during the 1850s. Sure he had managed to bribe the Illinois legislature for a seat among the pair of senators and made damn sure no leaks of this got out, but besides bribing his nominator, his senate record leaves little to be desired among the far left. Decried and demonized by the national Know Nothing majority, he would remain steadfast in his believes of "every man free", declaring that "God almighty would smite the south for it's sins." It may have been a reason why he was friends with John Brown, but that is a relationship that's still mysterious to historians. Weeding out the baseless modern twenty second century claim that he was a homosexual, he simply displayed apathy towards partners and relationships, preferring the companionship of his fellow senators and a nice stack of proposed legislation over the companionship of woman and some frivolous glass of wine.
The last president of the united states, Abraham Lincoln would embark on mass displays of seemingly endless populism and rallies for the people in his quest for political office. However, he would be roadblocked in passing his meaningful reforms by a stonewalled congress not settled in with this whole "communism" thing. Forcing him to resort to executive orders, he almost is killed by a nasty gut bug which sweeps through the capital swiftly and with strange strands of mercy attached to it.
The Supreme Court all dropped dead within a few days of another, along with multiple congressional seats and senate races that conveniently opened up avenues of the revolution for his increasing ambition. He was quick to whip the ravenous crowds outside the capital against the establishment of President Buchanan, who himself had been monitoring the left wing Lincoln closely with his crony network of agents and bystanders. He would pull a Jackson and allow thousands of people into the white house, opening it up for the people to view, even ordering a gargantuan 20 ton wheel of cheese to be prepared in his likeness. Sure, several unfortunates were crushed during the mass stampede following his inauguration, but what was a few bodies for the good of the proletariat?
Chairman of the Politburo Standing Committee
1.Abraham Lincoln (Communist)
(January 15th,1862-January 1st, 1864)
Quick to purge the ranks of officers in order to secure his standing, Lincoln was firmly entrenched within Washington, even as the southern united states raised a fuss, left the nation and declared war on the far left leader. After a few generals ended up having the same genes as the little napoleon and ended fighting savagely inconclusive campaigns throughout Maryland and Virginia, Lincoln opts for a new strategy called "I'm in Charge of the Army".
This strategy would end up successful at a few minor operations involving unit sizes of a brigade, but ended up collapsing with a disastrous loss near Alexandria. Seeking to open new fronts of the war, he would throw money away by backing slave revolts and pro union uprisings in the deep south. These would feed into the Richmond propaganda machine, painting it as a war for southern securities agaisnt a radical far left regime which sought to stamp out the southern way of life.
Finally taking a word of advice from his less incompetent general staff on occasion, he would officially relinquish his command of the Potomac People's Liberation Army. Now with the main northern army in the hands of the little napoleon once more, he would duel lee in several more bloody battles throughout the Fall of 1862. As the war dragged on into 1863, Lincoln was desperate to win.
Convinced by a passing fortune teller that the key to winning the war was to kidnap their leadership, he would organize a daring assault on Richmond complete with Gatling guns, hot air balloons and armored wagons. Overly dramatized in the 1998 box office hit "Belle", the operation was a bungling failure. The armored wagons got stuck in a swamp while en route to transport, forcing the operation to continue on foot. Fake documents and even faker accents proclaiming the kidnappers of their English and french origins as diplomats wishing to proclaim recognition raised suspicions of the confederate sentries, resulting in their capture, interrogation and unraveling of the plot. Aware of an upcoming vote with his fellow members on the Politburo, he sought to distance himself from the catastrophe, instead turning back to plan A and taking personal command of the PPLA for a simple assault on Richmond.
The resulting December clusterfuck was one of snow choked roads, enemy mines and sniper fire which eliminated several high ranking officers on both sides. The chaotic battle that broke the northern army (which itself had suffered almost 30,000 killed out of it's deployed 52,000) also wiped out his remaining support within the Politburo. Summoned to New York City the following new year for one of it's meetings, he would be berated by ranking member John C. Fremont, who voted in a 6 to 1 vote to strip Lincoln of his battlefield commissions, expel him from the Communist Party (and de facto position as Chairman) and sentence him to one year in prison.
2.John C. Frémont (Communist)
(January 1st, 1864-July 2nd, 1883)
As the Politburo Standing Committee simply drank to forget the unmitigated disaster that Lincoln had been, Frémont was content to open up peace negotiations with the Confederacy, though these would drag on due to delays and vehement disagreements within the inner party sanctum of New York City. The Pro War Faction that had been opposed to the removal of Lincoln was the first to object, demanding another large scale offensive for the following spring to sweep the rebels away in Virginia. The Peace Faction, backed by the commanding words of General Ulysses S. Grant when he wasn't utterly wasted on booze, ultimately won the debate. It would be enough for the proposal to tentatively be sent to Richmond.
When the messenger walked through the door, the south's response was fairly encouraging to negotiation. Agreeing on a concrete meeting place and sending several diplomats, Vice President Alexander Stevens of the Confederacy and Member of the Politburo Standing Committee Clement Vallandigham greeted each other on the frigate USS Constitution to sign the Constitution Treaty of 1865, officially ending the war and allowing the Confederate States of America to leave the People's Republic of America.
With the war over and the country divided,Frémont went to work on massive work projects, expanding the nation west with the admittance of the ironically named Socialist Republic of Lincoln. Establishing the system of democratically elected bosses, the mid 1870s were a time of mass industrialization for the northern states of the nation, with New York City reaching 4 million people by 1880.
As the older generals of the famed antebellum age died off during the 1870s,he would come up against stiff opposition from younger and more incompetent gentlemen who owed their position within the Politburo Standing Committee due to connections with rather thick pocketed revolutionaries.
Frémont would meet his untimely end at the barrel of an assassin's (and successor's) gun in 1883.
3.Charles J. Guiteau (Communist)
(July 2nd, 1883-July 14th, 1900)
Initially held under house arrest for a few hours by the local security forces of Frémont, Politburo Member Frank Blair convinced the other members to not only let him go, but to promote him to Chairman of the Politburo Standing Committee, convinced he would be an easy political pawn to control in Blair's manipulations. That fateful emergency meeting of the Politburo would have dire consequences for the country. Upon being told of his promotion, Guiteau was said to have remarked sarcastically:
"Right, and I'm the Consul to France."
Nevertheless, he buckled down and entered his first meeting, finding it rather boring. However, he sought to (and ultimately received) the repeal of the democratically elected monopoly heads, instead being based on the richest person per company. He would repeal a slew of the far left public policies implemented under Frémont, much to his inner party backer's chagrin. The People's Navy and Army were officially declared as part of the new model armed forces, even as tribal skirmishes with those in the western lands continued to occasionally flair up into more violent affairs that required a heavier hand in the form of military forces.
At this time the resident Mormon population within salt lake city had petitioned for incorporation as the Socialist Republic of Deseret. Alarmed at the rather large territory they had claimed, Guiteau would negotiate himself with the Mormon delegation when Brigham Young arrived in New York City.
Immediately opening negotiations by insulting the Mormons and berating them for their religion, Guiteau would demand the unconditional annexation of half their territory into the already established Socialist Republic of Colorado before he would even consider them into the country. Firmly stating their intention to have a separate territory with freedom of religion, the two men argued throughout the night, with the following mornings negotiations seeing Guiteau concede to Young in the territory's size.
Following this success, Guiteau strong armed the politburo into establishing the National People's Congress of 147 members, with each of the 21 socialist republics electing 7 representatives to send to Congress every five years. Sure, the NPC was essentially a rubber stamp on all actions taken by the Politburo with no legislative authority in amending, only approving or rejecting it via a unanimous open ballot on decrees passed by the Politburo, but it was a start, Guiteau's heart was in the right place.
In terms of foreign policy, Guiteau was a firm Anglophobe, rallying the people against the british monarchy and nation, calling their leadership several insults.
Sadly, he would not live to see his success, collapsing while on his way towards a committee meeting in the July heat of 1900.
