Walpurgisnacht
It was in the Year of Maximum Danger
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Sort of like an Atatürk, but with added religiousness?
TBH, the shiny military title makes me think of Chiang Kai-Shek.
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Sort of like an Atatürk, but with added religiousness?
TBH, the combination of guerrilla warrior to founding father and the shiny military title makes me think of Chiang Kai-Shek.
When was Jiang ever a guerrilla?
another thing based on a collaborative list on the other place (my prompt was party systems from the bicentennial to the tricentennial)
The New American Century
Presidents of the United States of America (Second Republic until 2032, Third Republic from 2032 to 2060, Fourth Republic from 2060 to 2069, Fifth Republic from 2069 to present)
2017-2021: Donald Trump (Republican)
2016 (with Mike Pence) def. Hillary Clinton (Democratic)
2020 (with Mike Pence) def. Joe Biden (Democratic), Kanye West (Independent)
2021-2021: Mike Pence (Republican)
2021-2021: Nancy Pelosi (Democratic)
2021-2027: Mike Pompeo (Republican)
2024; according to the Electoral College; (with Michael Flynn) def. Meghan McCain (Constitutionalist)
2024; according to UN observers; Constitutionalist ticket sole legal opposition, widespread voter intimidation and opposition boycotts
2027-2028: Michael Flynn (Republican)
2028-2031: Michael Flynn (Digital Soldier)
2028; according to the Electoral College; (with Marjorie Green) def. effectively unopposed
2028; according to UN observers; Digital Soldier ticket clearly defeated, President Flynn responded by couping what remained of civilian government
2031-2031: Tom Cotton (Digital Soldier)
2031-2032: Scott Walker (Republican & Constitutionalist leading Provisional Government)
2032-2032: Scott Walker / Pete Buttigieg (Republican, Constitutionalist & Democratic leading Provisional Government)
2032-2033: Pete Buttigieg (Federalist - Pro-Technical Government)
2033-2039: Pete Buttigieg (Techno-Federalist)
2032 def. Scott Walker (Oppo-Federalist), boycotted by Autonomous Zones and Benedictine Communities
2039-2045: London Breed (Techno-Federalist)
2038 def. none (Social Autonomist), Jesus Christ (Benedictine), Saira Blair (Oppo-Federalist)
2045-2051: Jacob Bachmeier (Techno-Federalist)
2044 def. scattered Social Autonomist, Benedectine and Oppo-Federalist candidacies
2051-2057: Kalan Haywood (Techno-Federalist)
2050 def. none (Social Autonomist), numerous Benedictine candidacies, Maxwell Lyon (Electoral Revival Organisation), scattered continuity Oppo-Federalist candidacies
2057-2062: Maxwell Lyon (Electoral Revival Organisation leading New America Alliance)
2056 def. Chelsea Chapel (Techno-Federalist), numerous continuity candidacies opposed to the 'Devil's Bargain' with Maxwell Lyon
2062-2067: Maxwell Lyon (Revivalist)
2062; according to the Electoral Commission; def. Erle Stanaway (Federalist)
2062; according to UN observers; amendment of term limits law, near-destruction of autonomous communities, Federalists sole viable opposition
2067-2069: Amari Franks (Revivalist)
2068; according to the Electoral Commission def. Erle Stanaway (Federalist)
2068; according to UN observers; campaigning suspended in October amidst unfavourable polling for the government
2069-2075: Erle Stanaway (Federalist)
2069 confirmatory election def. Kendall Love (Red-Black Alliance), Savanna Shannon (Revivalist), Hogan Paul (Technolibertarian)
2075-0000: Tegan Stone (Red-Black Alliance)
2074 def. Gene Hopkins (Federalist), House of Ada-Pauline-Tanner Banks (Technolibertarian), Savanna Shannon (Revivalist)
State of the Parties, 2070
National Government (Conservative and Unionist)
Currently stuck between a rock and a hard place, as they simultaneously try to resist Ireland's push for a plebiscite on Northern Ireland and try to avoid standing against "Bad Bob" Booth's war against the entire Middle Eastern Gulf while not standing for it. So that's every non-US ally pissed off when we need backdoor channels in the EuroCit's to undercut Ireland, the US pissed because we're not outright cheerleading them, and 71% of Britain pissed for various reasons. This was supposed to be the Domestic Not Foreign government. Council elections are in three weeks - assuming Booth doesn't press the button, ho ho - and they're likely screwed.
HM Loyal Opposition
Green Labour is doing really well, the first time since it opposed the Judge model and got voted out - they've been trying to rebrand themselves as the party of your domestic concerns and now's their chance, plus they can continue to point out the growing automation crisis and how Quartz's Ro-Busters Incorporated is going to damage the labour market further. Liberal Labour is falling further and further back, with geriatric members terrified this is a return to the 2010s-30s; their handling of the Antarctica Revolt and the "Ant Wars" hasn't given them much cred. The Nationalist Alliance exists. Good for them. Best likelihood is Green Labour are going to sweep the competitive council seats.
Greater London ("Brit Cit")
Still a Liberal Labour megacity, only just, because we're also still a megacity where the two Labours switch city hall every term or two. Mayor Nakamara is not having a great time now the Ro-Busters contract for bin collection has turned out to have cost more than expected and laid off all the Mk1 RoJaw repairmen - and you don't drokk with the bins. She's currently trying to plant tanks of GL's lawn by coming down hard on the Metropolitan Justice Department, over the two Beat Judges caught battering a teen in Croydon; 'citters are starting to lean towards "actually maybe GL was right about these guys". Probably won't work. The Tories are, of course, loudly backing our brave badges.
Manchester-thru-Leeds Conurb ("North-Cit")
The Blue Fort is finally coming down, or so it appears. We have been here before and the Tories pulled a rabbit out of a hat. But the ongoing juve crime, water filtration failures, and housing shortages have been building and building, and now the PM is focused on Over There and not Here - and the Northern England Nationalist Party are ready. Remember when they were a joke, ha ha nationalists split again? Well, they've sharpened their PR skills, got extremely local, dropped the holdover whinges about trans & nonbinaries so they're finally entering the 2030s, and have a young leader who has no known fascist ties. Barry Daniels will be mayor some day.
Cardiff-Swansea Sprawl ("Cymru-Hab")
Green Labour are in power and are going to stay in power because despite the party being clearly tired, despite the Cardiff-Swansea Justice Dept's big bust of politicians tied to the Little Reykjavik crime gangs, despite Liberal Labour chomping at the bit, despite the grumblings about immigrants: a large chunk of Wales will drown if the sea walls or rain pumps fail. Climate shift is existential. Now, Plaid Cymru is also focused on this but as long as they stayed tied to the Nationalist Alliance i.e. the English, they're stuck under 4% in polls.
Ulster Conglom ("BritCityDerry", if you're pro-unification)
The nationalists are at war in the streets with the other nationalists, like it's a hundred years ago, and the Ulster Justice Department are looking worryingly like Mega-City One. Mayor Maginty is keeping his Tory-Fine Gael North coalition together by sheer force of will, but allegedly the Big M is taking some marching orders from Chief Justice Ooduya to ensure stability. The mood on the streets is 'can we just have the damn plebiscite and know where we stand', but Westminster dares not do it.
And in the Republic of Scotland
The Scottish Party continues to
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Zarjaz
Oh this is great, and gives me a much better idea of what's going on - at least in some ways.Fashions Made Sacred: The AH Run-down
(Just ignoring here that of course social media and Internet are at least decades off at the time...)
France - April 2016
Major Parties and their major tribal affiliations
Democracy: Well, Renaudin's fucked it again and the government fell, again. I'm starting to think the man does this on purpose whenever his in-party rivals start looking at him funny. At least he wasn't doing anything himself in Venezuela. Probably.
-- The Basic Democrats are fucked. They're just fucked. They're the ones who wanted the coalition with the Whites, and look where its gotten them. Half the basics' fundraisers had already been barred over the Bank of Orleans scandal and now half their ministers are out over Venezuela. Oh, how the mighty have fallen. Anjou must be rolling in his political grave (he is, of course, somehow still alive, probably as Heaven's understandably in no mood to take him yet).
-- The Moralists are pissed to all hell and back about the sanctions-busting. They hate the Whites even under normal circumstances and this just proves their whole point. Renaudin usually goes running back to his home tribe whenever election time comes, though, but there's a lot in there unhappy with how much they've been sidelined in Renaudin's governments so far. They're going to demand their pound of flesh, for sure -- after all, did Protestants really need their own marriage officiants, people? I mean, really. Jews and Muslims, sure. But Protestants?
-- The Popular Democrats are rebranding again. Again. Why is the only part of the Democratic Party that isn't totally shit completely up their own asses again? How fucking hard is it to say "workers' alliances are broadly a good thing"? For crying out loud, there's an election on, morons!
-- The Traditionalists are somehow still a thing, though probably they'll be threatening to leave for the Whites a bit less for a few weeks. How are the Traditionalists even still a thing in a major party? Even the dauphin openly wants succession reform, for fuck's actual sake.
-- The Unitarists are probably the group that Renaudin's actually pleased the most in the details with his government, but his big push to make a Lyon Metropolitan Region has them up in arms because a few of them remembered what their tribe's name means, and the rest are just fuckers from Paris.
Radical Party: Oh, hey, it's an election! Someone managed to trigger an election early! Who could that possibly have been? Because it sure as hell had nothing to do with this moribund lot masquerading as an opposition party. Seriously, Montendre barely has this party under control and the election is not well-timed for the Radicals at all. Somehow, in some way, Montendre has achieved the impossible -- make this disaster Renaudin's to lose.
-- The Federalists were so close to a Lyon Metropolitan Region with the other lot they could taste it, and that means that they forgot that they're Radicals. Oops. More than a few of the others pissed off, even the storied Marquis leading the party, who came up with them back in the day. Still, they're at least standing for anything.
-- The Liberals are desperately trying to convince anyone in the Estates-General under the age of fifty that they A) stand for anything at all anymore or B) aren't a total anachronism if they do. Shockingly, they've only managed to convince [checks notes] two people in the Estates-General. Both in their forties.
-- The New Liberals are hahahahahahaha I said 'major' tribal affiliations, not 'also the Count of Nicosia and his friends from school'.
-- The Old Radicals are getting ornery about how all this nonsense about Greeks and Indians and Black people and autolibidins and such is distracting the Radical Party from its true calling: arguing with other Radicals, including other Old Radicals, about liberal economic theory while the Democrats run the country into the ground!
-- The True Radicals on the other at least only feel the need to constantly shoot themselves in the foot, instead of other tribes in the Radical Party. Someday, they might actually get their fucking act together to actually advocate for minorities effectively. Until then, fuck knows. It'd be nice if they could get someone with more charisma than a brown paper bag to speak up in the Estates-General.
Regional Parties
Cypriot Party: Ah, good, a political party willing to take a firm stance on the most crucial issue to the French nation: pissing off the Egyptians. They're in favor, if you were wondering.
Royalist Party: The collapse of the government actually hurts them the most; they were majorly hyping the Lyon Metropolitan Region as possibly a step for new metropolitan regions in their own regions down south. I actually do feel kind of bad for them. They're at least trying, and their ideas are usually pretty good, and they're not actively terrible, and they at least genuinely neither know nor care about anything to do with Venezuela.
Strollad Breizh: Ho, hum, maybe they'll gain a seat or two or maybe, if we're adventurous, lose a seat or two. More importantly, can the Democrats be so weakened as to be forced to call on the Bretons for aid like in Renaudin's first government? We all know the Radicals would rather gouge out their own eyeballs, of course. Still, maybe it'll be something more interesting than stage-managing an Estates-Provincial like they did last year. Actually, wait, no it won't. It's a general election in Brittany.
Syndesmos Ethnikou Rhomaiou: Ah, finally, another election, for the Union to finally prove that they're not a wasted, spent political force in Cypriot affairs, but a dynamic, reformed and reinvigorated under a new, charismatic leader that really can get things done without the scandals of the old guard. [FIVE MINUTES LATER] We regret to inform you that Gabriel Markopoulos is a sex pest.
Other Parties
Imperial Party: 'WE ARE NOT A COLONIALIST ANACHRONISM!' a particularly insistent set of crickets seem to be crying out into the French political night from somewhere in the basement. Maybe we should get the exterminators in.
National Unity: Actually, I have to hand it to Desmarais, she's been brilliant at doing the whole "I'm Not the Whites And Seem Conservative But Also Am Delightfully in the Middle" thing. She knows that if the Whites are ruled out, either the Democrats or the Radicals could need her to form a government after the election. Now if only she or her party had any actual principles beyond "we want to be part of the government." Not alienating either side is the game, and she's playing it well.
White Party: Ah, yes, who could have possibly thought that the party most opposed to sanctions in Venezuela is filled with sanctions-busters? The "more royalist than the Queen" Party? Perish the thought! I'm sure that Beaucoup de Roses and the rest of their lot will be totally cleared of any wrongdoing because, really, what's a bit of arms smuggling into an active warzone on another continent among friends? I'm sure that the people ofGrao Parasouthern Venezuela will be fine with a bit more tough love from their rightful government, and that this couldn't possibly piss off the dauphine's dad at all.
Oh this is great, and gives me a much better idea of what's going on - at least in some ways.
Couple of questions:
1. I thought the parties were themselves called factions TTL?
2. From this it sounds like the factions/parties are more "run against each other in first round, mutually withdraw in second" a la OTL French left-right in the National Assembly, but the Cyclopedia article about Madeleine's grandfather (and the discussion about her running for election) made it sound like they were - well, not necessarily organised parties in the OTL sense, but a lot more organised.
Sorry if I'm pestering you....
You know I had to reverse that coin flip
Also DYK the Chinook Wawa word for white person is "boston"