Make Jimmy Carter's Presidency better

Yes, thank you for the realistic warning. Whereas I'm willing to do my part regarding the Cambodian genocide and perhaps even a little bit more than my part, I actually like the cheerier topics of alt history, such as advancements in medicine, timelines in which the U.S. middle class is rebuilt earlier, renewable energy other than not-yet-ready-for-prime-time solar, etc... . . Justice League of Celebrities as it were...

Well, this is a flight of fancy in which we do have effective activism, including from different celebrities. Probably at the limits of possibility, but we can dream.

Flights of fancy at AH.com? It's how we do :cool: Don't see why one couldn't wind those things together with Staubach/Field coming from one direction, Chomsky from another, McGovern/Buckley from another -- a ragtag band of cultural misfits, some of whom probably couldn't stand the sight of each other outside this special set of circumstances, come together to confront the President of the United States over his own call for a moral foreign policy while some of the powers that be around the world resist... sounds great to me. And on the rare occasions that Seventies culture did upbeat, very, very Seventies. You could even kick off earlier, in January 1977: the Cowboys were knocked out of the playoffs that year in December '76 (I've got a buddy who knows these things) and it would roughly coincide with Carter's inauguration and the whole "things are going to be different around here" vibe that briefly attended Carter after that.

You go do what you like to do, it's a privilege we all signed on for around here. But if you should ever come back to the idea it sounds well worth it.
 
Thanks for the vote of confidence, although I still think anything as fanciful as Roger Staubach and Sally Field helping out can maybe be sustained for 20-50 pages at the most.

It couldn't be a big, delicious, sprawling multi-generational work and novel, where some of the family survives the Genocide and some don't, and like a good screenplay any less likely premises are introduced in the beginning.

Of course . . . any member or guest of Alternate History is welcome to take a crack at it! :)
 
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the caption says, "an unidentified band."

http://www.sfchronicle.com/movies/article/Don-t-Think-I-ve-Forgotten-Cambodia-s-6247656.php

This is an example of what was lost.

From the 2015 documentary "Don't Think I've Forgotten: Cambodia's Lost Rock and Roll" by the husband and wife team of John Pirozzi and Linda Saphan.

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And if in the end this is merely an emotive argument, so be it. :)
 
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