The economic clans of the RU under the age of Custer. I think the only major additions was the creation of the Media Clan. Hopefully we’ll see more in the age of Oswald, with stuff like communications and computing getting spun off as their own clans as they become bigger industries (the Techno Union or Hyper-Communication clans
)You just made me realize two things.
Yeah, well, was just a form to say it. You can ignore that detail and still go full "chinese subversives are our enemies".
Banking, Agriculture, Armaments, Industrial, Media, Distilleries
I'm still a long ways from finishing my read-through of The Union Forever, but the funny thing about this is that the originator of the Bellamy Salute, Francis Bellamy, would fit right in with the Madnessverse and the RU as a possible political/religious ally of Custer (from what I can tell). He was a Christian socialist who wrote the original version of the Pledge of Allegiance (which he viewed as a way to "inoculate" immigrants against the "virus" of radicalism and subversion) and was influenced by the teachings of the Second Great Awakening (though he'd more likely be part of the later wave of Spiritual Marxist AFC members given that he was born in 1855). Hell, even some of his OTL views on immigration would fit right in with the xenophobia of the RU and even sounds like something straight out of the Madnessverse. To quote:
I knew Bellamy was a socialist, and that he probably held some racist views, but didn't know just how racist he was. He (or someone like him) would be a perfect fit here.
While I agree that he's a perfect fit, there's still one contradiction about Bellamy's views that's worth mentioning. As far as I can tell (at least, from the brief search I did on the subject), he doesn't seem to have been particularly racist, despite how his quote on immigration shows him as virulently xenophobic. There doesn't seem to be a universal consensus on his views towards racial minorities (which is why I label him as xenophobic rather than racist), with some articles painting him as racist towards African-Americans while others take the opposite view of him as a social reformer who wanted to help African-Americans. In fact, the alleged reason given for why Bellamy stopped attending church during his retirement in Florida in OTL was because he disliked the racial bigotry he saw there. It's an interesting paradox where he's supportive of social reform yet against immigration, similar to how temperance movements in the US supported various social reforms while imposing their own Protestant values on Catholic immigrant communities, and it makes him fit even more in the Madnessverse with the RU's positive view of African-American and Jewish citizens as Betters and their outright hatred of Catholic and Slavic immigrants as Inferiors.
Some strange subsection of the Agriculture Clan, considering they own the fields that produce their active ingredients?
He's fictional, basically if you threw Einstein and Mengele (with an actual genius intellect in biology and immunology) into a blender and poured him into a seersucker suit
I'm so glad Clone High is becoming popular again!
