This is a scenario I have been interested in. Imagine a world where the New Deal continued and expanded, and ran amok in the wildest fever dreams of a Conservative. Wartime and Depression era powers and economic controls remain intact. There is a massive, pervasive government with a bloated, labyrinthian bureaucracy. Labor unions are massive, growing out of control, and can strangle the economy. Regulation is overly done. And it is getting bigger, more controlling, and worse as time goes on. What if this had happened? What would this United States and the wider world beyond this United States look like?
And as an additional scenario, imagine Objectivism then having success in that world at some point in its existence. Essentially, it is Atlas Shrugged from the perspective of how such a thing would look in a real world rather than purely fantasy with strawmen and personal gratification of one's ideology. That is where this comes from. The government was not like it was portrayed in that book. So from there comes the whole idea of what would that type of thing look like if it were done in the real world.
And for the love of God, please do not do the recent trend of talking about the lead up to the scenario with no focus on the aftermath of the scenario. An AHC is for the lead up. A WI is for the aftermath. In normal terms, I would come down more on total fixation on the lead up rather than the aftermath, but this topic is certainly something of an AHC as well. Just please do not totally ignore the aftermath, as that is the entire point of a WI. This is bad form. It drives me mad. I will be displeased.
And as an additional scenario, imagine Objectivism then having success in that world at some point in its existence. Essentially, it is Atlas Shrugged from the perspective of how such a thing would look in a real world rather than purely fantasy with strawmen and personal gratification of one's ideology. That is where this comes from. The government was not like it was portrayed in that book. So from there comes the whole idea of what would that type of thing look like if it were done in the real world.
And for the love of God, please do not do the recent trend of talking about the lead up to the scenario with no focus on the aftermath of the scenario. An AHC is for the lead up. A WI is for the aftermath. In normal terms, I would come down more on total fixation on the lead up rather than the aftermath, but this topic is certainly something of an AHC as well. Just please do not totally ignore the aftermath, as that is the entire point of a WI. This is bad form. It drives me mad. I will be displeased.