WI jesse ventura runs and wins in 2000? The POD for this could be that in 1998 he wakes up and realizes the country needs new leadership. The reason fro this suddent awakening is a personality change
some ways he could run and win
-scandals with both major candidates
-said candidates
-he manages to get ralph nader to back him due to his environmentalist stances
-the centrists/socially liberal republicans/economically conservative dems bolt and join behind Ventura.
so its 2001 and Ventura is inaugerated what next?
my ideas for what happens in 2000
-more political infighting
-Bush and gore both in jail for corrupt fianances
-he wins against gore by focusing o
-in the period between the elections and Ventura's inaugeration China does major human rights blunders
-Canada's supreme court
-Iraq clandestinely begins rearming
some of my ideas for 2001
-aghanistan invaded and REAL effort spent
-formation of homelend security department but no patriot acts
-afghanistan coalition holds together and gets stronger
-Vantura takes efforts to amend free trade deals by makign it so
-relations with China become worse after trade becomes limited
-the democrat and republican parties explode
-Ventura begins establishing his social policies by allowing states to set their laws of alcohol and drugs.
-the USA joins kyoto
-the Cuban embargo ended. Restrictions on travel to cuba are also ended.
2002 major events
-Bermuda votes to leave Britain and become its own commonwealth nation
-many recall electiosn happen in states and Reform govenors sweep into power in California(arnold S.),nevada,New York and louisiana
-Putin declares martial law in Russia
-Argentina goes into an economic depression
-Fidel Castro killed and reformers take power
2003 major events
-Taiwan is recongized as an independent nation
-NAFTA is expanded to the carribean and cuba,bermda,bahamas,jamaica
-Argentina has a military coup
-subways in Madrid,paris,marseile,lisbon,berlin and rome bombed with 2,000 dead by Al Qeada
-Turkey joins the EU
-Bin laden captured and put on trial
-Bin Laden executed for ordering the deaths of over 5,000 innoncent civilians
-Rockefeller drug laws repealed in new york under govenor Cuomo, New York along with Nevada becomes the first of the Americna states to adopt the alaskan method for dealing with soft drugs.
-the USA recognizes Taiwan which pisses off china even more
-in a propaganda move, China on a showstring budget lands a man on the moon, this causes an extremely hostile reaction by USA and the announcement of a second space race by President Ventura
-OPEC begins to reduce production
-North Korea begins thratening nuke usage to other countries
events in 2004
-Iraq invaded by the united nations coalition after they threaten to obtain nuclear weapons from russia
-as the second korean war begins China is wracked by many minor revolts and student protests which are supressed with lethal force
-Republic of Iraq set up with Chalabi as its president and a program lead by the UN that resembles the post WWII reconstruction
-laws that ban smoking outside of non-smopking areas get ruled unconstitutional
-North Korea fires a missle at american bases at the DMZ, Russia invades from the north,the USA/Japan from the east and south korea from the south
-President Ventura elected with a 57% majority
-beginning of a korean reconstuction plan with Japan,the USA and south korea restoring the new northern areas of south korea
I'd like to make this into a TL but I need some names for politicians that would fit in Reform(mildly socially libertarian,economically conservative and more hardline on foreign policy). Any other possible recent events are good.