Things aren't all bad, hell I'd say a lot of things are better than in OTL, although I guess that comes across more in my notes than in the lists in the OP.
What in particular makes you think this is a dystopia?
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Crashing the Party Test Thread
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What in particular makes you think this is a dystopia?
Probably President Erik Prince
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2008 Election/Koch Admin.
By New Years Day, 2007, David Koch's political career was on life support. The American people had been flattened by round after round of intense Koch-approved austerity and rewarded the President with the biggest landslide defeat in a midterm election since the Democratic collapse in 1990, his own Vice President was mulling a primary challenge, one-in-twelve Americans was out of work, and in brutally humilating fashion, General Motors, a titan of American manufacturing, had been bought out by Dongfeng Motors in December of 2006. However, the killing blow to President Koch was arguably not his fault - ever since the early 2000's, New York's (both the city and the state) revenues had dried up thanks to administrative incompetence and hesitance to raise taxes. In an legendary moment of political incompetence, Governor Chuck Schumer, emboldened after a landslide victory in 2006, hiked MTA fares from $2.25 to $5.50 and quietly cut discounts for riders over-65. The public response was apoplectic; ad-hoc protest groups formed overnight, progressive legislators and opponents to the Governor gleefully used the new ammunition he gave them, and Schumer's media-fuelled Presidential ambitions were permanently ended. At first the public response was peaceful, with the most disruptive protests being nightly "noise barrages" of banging pots and pans, but by February the demonstrations had turned violent. Protesters leading a picket in downtown Brooklyn stormed the MTA's headquarters and started a two-alarm fire in the Transit Building (shockingly, nobody was harmed), turnstiles across New York's subways were broken and a riot in the Bronx caused over $500,000 in property damage. The slogan "the Fares Are Too Damn High!" became ubiquitous, and after handheld footage of NYPD surrounding and beating a teenage demonstrator got into the hands of the Audience Network and NBC, the protests spread nationwide. The dam had burst; the APWU began a nationwide strike after a series of wildcats across the Southwest forced their hand, "Rock Against Austerity" concerts began attracting some of the biggest names in American music to play, and Koch cancelled all upcoming events out of a fear of "public backlash." It wasn't just about fares anymore - it was about the First Lady's glitzy fashion shows, it was about the privatization of the Postal Service, it was about Dongfeng, it was about benefits cuts, it was about the Recession, it was about every little bit of humiliation inflicted on the American people by an out-of-touch plutocrat. Koch's announcement that he wanted to spend more time with his family and wouldn't be running for re-election in 2008 became a day of public celebration, with video of an impromptu party and parade on Castro Street going viral and becoming one of the defining cultural artifacts of the era.
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Ranking of U.S. Presidents since 1969, Siena College/Audience Network Poll
1. John Kasich
2. Brian Schweitzer
3. Ralph Nader
4. Scoop Jackson
5. Ronald Reagan
6. Erik Prince
7. Dale Bumpers
8. Nelson Rockefeller
9. Martha Layne Collins
10. Mario Cuomo
11. William C. Westmoreland
12. David Koch
Ranking of Prime Ministers since 1963, University of Leeds Survey
1. Michael Foot
2. John Moore
3. Harold Wilson
4. Chris Mullin
5. Willie Whitelaw
6. Liam Fox
7. Anne Widdecombe
8. Robin Cook
9. Caroline Spelman
10. Parmjit Dhanda
11. Robert Kilroy-Silk
12. Roy Jenkins
13. Alex Salmond
1. John Kasich
2. Brian Schweitzer
3. Ralph Nader
4. Scoop Jackson
5. Ronald Reagan
6. Erik Prince
7. Dale Bumpers
8. Nelson Rockefeller
9. Martha Layne Collins
10. Mario Cuomo
11. William C. Westmoreland
12. David Koch
Ranking of Prime Ministers since 1963, University of Leeds Survey
1. Michael Foot
2. John Moore
3. Harold Wilson
4. Chris Mullin
5. Willie Whitelaw
6. Liam Fox
7. Anne Widdecombe
8. Robin Cook
9. Caroline Spelman
10. Parmjit Dhanda
11. Robert Kilroy-Silk
12. Roy Jenkins
13. Alex Salmond
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Aolbain
All he has managed to do is make himself sad
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I did not approve to be targeted with direct commercials and will sue.
@aurinoko - does this map check out for the alt-1993 election, pink for Kim Dae-jung and purple for Park Tae-jun, given what we discussed about the crackdown on the Bu-Ma Protests?