The Great American State

Teleology

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Note: this is an idea without a TL, a snippet of alternate history that I hope you find entertaining or inspiring



The Great American State
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"I pledge my life to defend the Great American State from all evils, foreign and domestic; and to be tireless in my fight against communism, subversion, and all forms of treason"

The Big Three


General Douglas MacArthur, President For Life


Howard Hughes, Secretary of The State


Walter Disney, Director of the Bureau of Reconstruction


The State Secretariat


Frank "Bill" Gay, Senior Councilor to the Secretary of State
Howard Eckersley, Junior Councilor to the Secretary of State
John Holmes, Head of the Secretary's Personal Security


Lafayette "Ron" Hubbard, Public Information Deputy


Edward Wood Jr., Public Information Deputy


Dr. Jack Parsons, Science Adviser


Ensign Robert Heinlein, Military Adviser


Ronald Reagan, Trade Representative of the Great American Unions Against Communism


General James Stewart, Commander of the State Guard



Colonel John Wayne, Lt. Commander of the State Guard



Footnote: I'll be editing out most of the pics within 24 hours, once the initial shock has worn off, in the interest of saving bandwith
 
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Teleology

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Well, it just occurred to me that in 40's/50's California and Nevada there were enough colorful anti-communists dysfunctional enough to make a government in the Nazi mold of "patriotism through insanity"; which just happened to mix with the old chestnut of MacArthur maybe trying to become dictator after the war in the Pacific if the US government was one he could gain traction against (say a Soviet sympathizer like Henry Wallace or a populist like Huey Long or something).

Now, for 50's West Coast Nazis alone you might to remove the Stewart and even MacArthur, but the rest could conceivably be twisted to fit. Hughes? Nuts and hardline anti-communist. Walt Disney? Kind of nuts and hardline anti-communist. L. Ron Hubbard and Ed Wood? Self-serving opportunists.

The real touches for that "I can't believe it's not Fascism!" flavor rather than just right-wing dictatorship are Heinlein, who went from voting for Upton Sinclair for Governor of Cali to being a Cold War Hawk wanting nuclear war with the Soviets (going from socialist to anti-communist hardliner is reminiscent of the Fascist feel); Disney, the technocratic utopian who wanted to create the perfect planned community (for which Orwellian control was necessary); Parsons, a Crowley disciple occultist and the inventor of solid-state rocket fuel (for that batshit Nazi occultist vibe); and Reagan, a famous trade unionist in his day who later became a hardcore anti-socialist (for the corporate state, unions against class struggle synarchist stylings of Fascism).
 

The Doctor

The whole library looked at me funny when I started laughing. The Krall warning in the image was a great thing. :D But shame on you for making me look redicules in the library. :rolleyes:;)
 

Dan Reilly The Great

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I know it;s a bit of a nitpick, but you couldn't get a pic of John Wayne in a military uniform? I mean he must have been in at least a dozen military films.
 

Teleology

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At first I was remiss at not having a proper state security apparatus, just the State Guard police/militia under Stewart and Wayne ( Hughes personal mormon mafia are unqualified enough to be Nazi highfalutins but are essentially just his personal helper goons) but thinking about it more, I realized that the entire State Secretariat is probably meant to be second banana to MacArthur's personal authority, probably enacted through his General Staff - operating a military dictatorship without the need for the same kind of systems the Nazis had in place.
 

Teleology

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The Supreme Leadership (Generalissimo Douglas MacArthur)
The General Staff
The State
The State Committee -
The Chairman of the Committee (Chairman Howard Hughes)
- The Central Office
______ Armaments Ministry
______ Industrial Ministry
______ Office of Investigations and Intelligence
- The Military Advisory Board (Lt. Commander Robert Heinlein, Senior Adviser)
- The Office of Public Information (Lt. Commander Lafayette Hubbard, Chief of Public Information; Deputy Chief Edward Wood)
- The Science Advisory Council (Dr. Jack Parsons, Senior Adviser)
- The State Guard (General James Stewart, Commanding Officer; Colonel Marion Morrison, Adjutant)
- The Office of Patriotic Activities (Ronald Reagan, Spokesman)
The Director of Reconstruction (Director Walter Disney)
The Bureau of Reconstruction
- Civil Planning Section
- Energy Section
- Transportation Section
- Labor Section
- Public Health Section
- Public Security Section

Am I missing any bureaucracy? I made sure to roll up the tube all the way but some might be left in the cap.
 
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Teleology

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The Bureau of Reconstruction essentially gets to run its pet Rehabitation areas as a separate nation within the nation; Disney's own propaganda and ubiquitous surveillance are part of his Public Security Section and thus are extremely well integrated, whereas you can't get the Public Information propaganda machine and the State Guard not to contradict each other at any given time.

Rehabitation areas combine the prison-model style of city designs with not only a panopticon theme in effect and all of the propaganda/BuRecon paraphenalia, but are planned communities from start to finish. Disney sincerely is trying to design the city of the future, but all of those modern conveniences require total control of facilitators and functionaries. His Bureau is of course not afforded the manpower, but that's ok. He has a singular talent for getting the people who live in his planned communities to begin to take pride in them and to work for the system, to be the system. This involves everything from better pay for monorail operators and maintenance men to privileges to community leaders (encouraging them to A. get their communities to actually pick leaders and to B. meet the qualifications to receive said privileges) to a combination of Condominium tenant meetings and Cultural Revolution style hate fests where everyone gets together and publicly outs the faults of their neighbors for group scolding.



Oh, and I need a secretary of agriculture or some such thing. I'm thinking Nixon.
 

Orville_third

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It should be noted that Parsons would not have fared well in this environment. He got in trouble with the FBI for passing out a famous manifesto of Aleister Crowley's (Liber OZ).
http://www.hermetic.com/crowley/libers/lib77.html
Parsons was content to work for government money, however, as his own "Freedom is a Two-Edged Sword", he was hostile to Communism, Nazism McCarthyism, the New Deal and a lot in between.
L. Ron, on the other hand, would have loved it...
 

Teleology

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Ah, so he's not just a power hungry occultist, he's got the anarchist type sociopolitical philosophy of a genuine Satanist?

Because if it were Crowley, I can totally see Crowley engaging in an opportunity for money and influence.

Also, fun fact, in real life L. Ron Hubbard stole Parsons' mistress (his wife's sister, whom he was living with after his wife found out and left him) and ran off with his savings.
 
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