Flag Challenge 256: Party like its 2099!
Inspired by a fun idea I had for a future history American party system, my challenge to you all is to create a flag for a major 21st century American political party, combining my loves of weird politics, ideological colors and flag making. Is it a splinter of an existing party? A fusion of two or more? A new group championing some new idea (or some really old ones)? I leave it up to you, though setting it a few decades from now is probably the best way to avoid current politics 😅 Exciting scenarios are encouraged, and distinctive party symbols and colors are of course appreciated!
Inspired by a fun idea I had for a future history American party system, my challenge to you all is to create a flag for a major 21st century American political party, combining my loves of weird politics, ideological colors and flag making. Is it a splinter of an existing party? A fusion of two or more? A new group championing some new idea (or some really old ones)? I leave it up to you, though setting it a few decades from now is probably the best way to avoid current politics 😅 Exciting scenarios are encouraged, and distinctive party symbols and colors are of course appreciated!
Entry 1:
American Distributism Party
While the American Distributism party does have other goals as part of its platform it was founded with the expressed purpose of integrating the principals of the economic system of distributism into the United States of America.
Distributism was initially developed in the 19th century as an alternative to Pure Capitalism and Communism. In extremely short terms, distributism focus on local areas first and has an emphasis on family farms and businesses.
The flag's main design features come from a saying of one of distributism major early thinkers G. K. Chesterton, "Three acres and a cow." With the cow being self evidence and each of the three colored stripes representing an acre.
(EDIT: The collar and the blue stripe were two different shades. It was bugging the crud out of me since I noticed it. Fixed now.)
Entry 2:
The Republican-Democratic Party (not to be confused with the Democratic-Republican Party dissolved in 1834) is a centrist party created by so-called Republicans In Name Only (or RINO, pronounced to sound like "rhino") and Democrats In Name Only (or DINO). This party became a traditional kingmaker and junior partner in American politics during the Eighth alignment of the American Party System.
Triceratops, a rhino-like dinosaur, was chosen as the party's symbol. The party's official color, purple, is also a mix of Republican red and Democratic blue.
Entry 3:
God's Own Party
The GOP is a splinter from the fracturing of the Republican Party in 2040s following revelations about its leadership's involvement in the Gilead Scandal which sought to reverse all civil progress made since the 20th Century.
As the main Republican Parties reformed in order to achieve electoral success their move away from religious conservatism caused many a departure of the religious right.
These established themselves as the God's Own Party based on reinterpreting an old acronym of the Republicans.
While achieving little success nationally the GOP survived in various southern counties and states, however the recent successes in human cloning and the uterine casket has caused a surge in their numbers from those worried about "inhuman experimentation" and coupled with the rise in Revelationism as the next century approaches amidst worsening Climate Change, pundits are predicting a kingmaker scenario...
The Flag is a modified All-Seeing Eye with the US colours and a star.
Entry 4:
Liberal Party (United States):
The Liberal Party is one of the two major, contemporary political parties in the United States along with its historical rival, the Nationalist Party. Liberal Party was founded in 1980s with the collapse of the Republican Party. There has only been one Liberal president, Bill Clinton.
Liberal Party is a socially liberal and economically mixed political party, more popular in urban areas and by minority groups. Its symbol is the Liberty Bell and its color is yellow. Liberal Party is the second largest party in the United States.
Liberal Party mostly descends from the left wing and progressive factions of the Republican Party and minor parties such as Libertarian Party, United States Social Democratic Party, Reform Party and 13 Stars not a Lone Star Party. As well as parties from Pacific States and Pacific Federation such as the Social Democratic Party, the Pacific Republican Party and the left wing factions of the Pan-American Democratic Party.
Entry 5:
The Pillarist Party of America (or simply; Pillarites)
The Pillarist Party of America was founded in 2038 as a splinter of the Progress Party of America, with it's founder, controversial New Age thinker & at the time Representative Andrew Rasgey boastfully proclaiming it's founding on the House Floor. Pillarism is commonly defined as a form of Modernist Liberalism, Technocracy, and Anarchism, however Rasgey has fiercely denied such associations, proclaiming Pillarism as a Eleventh Way Political Movement.
Pillarism believes in the 'Three Pillars of Societal Progress' as defined by Rasgey in his 2039 Book 'The Way Forward: Pillarism', those being the Pillar of Faith, the Pillar of Popular Freedom, and the Pillar of Economic Freedom. Pillarism, as defined by Rasgey in other works, is a means of focusing government to 'serve society as a whole by cutting a path through the dark age of modernity forward through the doors of progress into the bright future ahead'.
