- Pronouns
- He/Him
Good list, though I think there’s a successful SDP spin off about I doubt Nigel Farage would be leading it (particularly if there’s a mostly Thatcherite Tory party). I could see someone like Chris Huhne or Paul Keetch being part of it or even (klaxon) Jason Zadronzy, who’s politics are probably closer to a continuing SDP if anything.A NEW CONSENSUS: Falklands Lost
"Hail to the Chief": The Pop Culture History of US Presidents
1953-1961: Gov. John Mervin (CA)/Former Sec. of State William Russell (IL) – Democratic
1952 def. Former Gov. Harrold Stassen (MN)/Joseph McCarthy (WI) - Republican
1956 def. Sen. John W. Bricker (OH)/Gov. Joe Foss (SD) - Republican
1961-1965: Sen. Merkin Muffley (IL)/Former Gov. Cecil H. Underwood (WV) - Republican
1960 def. Sen. George Smathers (FL)/Rep. Sam Rayburn (TX) - Democratic
1965-1973: Sen. Esker Scott Anderson (OR)/Rep. Edward M. Gilley (PA) – Democratic
1964 def. Pres. Merkin Muffley (IL)/Vice Pres. Cecil H. Underwood (WV) - Republican
1968 def. Sen. Barry Goldwater (AZ)/ William E. Miller (NY) - Republican
1973-1977: Sen. Richard "Dick" Monckton (IL)/Gov. Manfred Link (VA) – Republican
1972 def. Vice Pres. Edward M. Gilley (PA)/Former Gov. Terry Sandford (NC) - Democratic
1976 def. Gov. Jerry Brown (CA)/Sen. Frank Church (ID) - Democratic
1978-1982: Vice Pres. Manfred Link (VA)*/Rep. Noah Calvin (MN) – Republican
1980 def. Gov. Cliff Finch (MS)/Sen. Edmund Muskie (ME) - Democratic
1982-1985: Sen. Douglass Dilman (MA)/Vice Pres. Noah Calvin (MN) – Republican
1985-1993: Sen. Andrew Shepherd (WI)/Sen. Joe Biden (DE) - Democratic
1984 def. Pres. Douglass Dilman (MA)/Former Sec. of Treasury John Connally (TX) - Republican
1988 def. Sen. Bob Dole (KS)/Rep. John B. Anderson (IL) - Republican
1993-2001: Gov. James Marshall (IA)/Sen. Kathryn Bennett (ME) - Republican
1992 def. Vice Pres. Joe Biden (DE)/Rep. Pat Schroeder (CO) - Democratic
1996 def. Sen. Al Gore (TN)/Former Gov. Douglas Wilder (VA) - Democratic
2001-2005: Gov. Josiah "Jed" Bartlet (NH)/Sen. John Hoynes (TX) – Democratic
2000 def. Former US Ambassador Alan Keyes (MD)/Former Sec. of Defence Donald Rumsfeld (IL) - Republican
2004 def. Gov. Robert Ritchie (FL)/Gov. Ray Sullivan (WV) - Republican
2005: Acting President Rep. Glenn Allen Walken (MS) – Republican
2005-2009: Pres. Josiah "Jed" Bartlet (NH)/Sen. Bob Russell (CO) – Democratic
2009-2013: Rep. Matt Santos (TX)/Gov. Eric Baker (PA) – Democratic
2008 def. Sen. Arnold Vinick (CA)/Rep. Jeff Haffley (WA) - Republican
2013-2017: Rep. Frank Underwood (SC)/Rep. Donald Blythe (NH) – Republican
2012 def. Pres. Matt Santos (TX)/Vice Pres. Eric Baker (PA) - Democratic
2017-2018: Pres. Frank Underwood (SC)*/Former US Ambassador to UN Claire Underwood (TX) – Republican
2016 def. Gov. Will Conway (NY)/Gen. Ted Brockhart (MA) - Democratic
2018-2021: Vice Pres. Claire Underwood (TX)/Special Advisor Mark Usher (NY) - Republican
2021-Present: Rep. Thomas J. Whitmore (TN)/Former National Security Advisor Jack Ryan (MD) - National Union
2020 def. Gov. John Keeler (MA)/Sen. Charles Logan (CA) - Republican
Points to anyone who works out what shows, films and books they were all taken from.
Just quietly, my favourite part of this list is that the Democrats and Republicans are just two different shades of the same colour.HENDERSON - Former President Harry Reid, who had been suffering from pancreatic cancer for several years, died Tuesday at his home in Henderson, Nevada. He was 82.
The Democrats are red for Reid, obviously. The Republicans, on the other hand, are red for Reagan. It makes perfect sense, doesn't it?Just quietly, my favourite part of this list is that the Democrats and Republicans are just two different shades of the same colour.
This has some very "End of History" vibes and I love it.1981-1988: Ronald Reagan (Republican)
1988-1989: Jack Kemp (Republican)
1989-1997: Harry Reid (Democratic)
'88 (with Joe Biden) def. Jack Kemp (Republican)'92 (with Walter Mondale) def. H. John Heinz (Republican), H. Ross Perot (Independent)1997-2001: Ann Richards (Democratic)
'96 (with Dick Celeste) def. Pat Buchanan (Republican)2001-2005: John McCain (Republican)
'00 (with Elizabeth Warren) def. Ann Richards (Democratic), Ray Flynn (Right2Life)2005-2013: Xavier Becerra (Democratic)
'04 (with Katie McGinty) def. John McCain (Republican), Ray Flynn (Right2Life)'08 (with Katie McGinty) def. Helen Chenoweth (Republican)2013-2021: Sarah Palin (Republican)
'12 (with Pat McCrory) def. Katie McGinty (Democratic), Harold Ford Jr. (Independent)'16 (with Pat McCrory) def. Brian Schweitzer (Democratic)2021-: Mandela Barnes (Democratic)
'20 (with Rory Reid) def. Pat McCrory (Republican)
HENDERSON - Former President Harry Reid, who had been suffering from pancreatic cancer for several years, died Tuesday at his home in Henderson, Nevada. He was 82.
Reid has often been referred to as the father of the modern Democratic Party. In his hardscrabble youth in isolated Searchlight, an embroidered pillowcase with the face of Franklin Roosevelt was one of few adornments; as President, he worked to modernize the party, bringing together labor unions, youth organizations, and traditional party institutions into the "Reid Machine", which helped ensure that the Democratic Party would hold unified control of the Presidency and Congress for fifteen years after his service, compared to only four for the Republicans.
As President of the United States, elected in 1988 in the wake of the Iran-Contra scandal, Reid presided over the fall of the Soviet Union. Though some have criticized his full-throated and aggressive support for "peaceful" nationalist and liberal movements as counterproductive, his work with Secretary of State Philip Habib and General Secretary Gorbachev to negotiate the Athens Principles and formation of the Union of Sovereign States won him, Gorbachev, and Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou the Nobel Peace Prize in 1992. Additionally, he presided over the Second Korean Crisis, lending his support both to the Olympic Revolution and to the Korean Sole Authority policy. Statues of Reid stand in, among other places, Moscow, Kyiv, Seoul, and Pyongyang.
At home, he helped create the Federal Insurance Program, expanded into Universal Medicare in 2007, and reformed labor law to protect farmworkers' right to organize and establish "card check" systems for organizing unions. He also helped to create the modern transnet by pushing for the Gore Act and signing it into law, establishing the National Telecommunications Authority to standardize systems and fund both research and physical infrastructure, and massively expanded protected lands. However, he also pressed for the 1989 Omnibus Crime Prevention Act, the 1991 Illegal Immigration Reform and Enforcement Act, and the 1992 Defense of Marriage Act, all of which Reid would later say he regretted; ironically, many of the more stringent provisions thereof were repealed by progressive Congressional majorities made possible by the "Reid Machine".
He is survived by his wife of 62 years, Landra Gould, and five children, including sitting Vice President Rory Reid.
The Sum Total
The Commonwealth party imploded in 1951 after Millington left to be a full time CND Activist etc. Action still exists though as a Labour Pressure Group who become the biggest supporters of T.Dan Smith as Acland makes a more Left Wing Blue Labour essentially.But I'd love to know what Britain is like with a successful CPGB and a new left. By 2021 is Common Wealth still a small but functional party? Do we get a kind of united left? Does Labour have an earlier Corbyn style backlash to the right? There's so many options here
the Left Lion Party
How else do you indicate that your a Nottingham based, Community, Left Wing Party?No, that's too Nottingham
It's a bold choice and I love itJust quietly, my favourite part of this list is that the Democrats and Republicans are just two different shades of the same colour.
Presidents of Brazil
1969 - 1974: Emílio Garrastazu Médici (ARENA)
1974 - 1976: Ernesto Geisel (ARENA)
1976 - 1976: João Leitão de Abreu (ARENA)
1976 - 1978: Golbery do Couto e Silva (ARENA)
Results of the 1978 Presidential Election: Ulysses Guimarães / Franco Montoro (PMDB)
defeated, 1978: Leonel Brizola / Theotônio dos Santos (PDT), João Castelo / Jose Sarney (PD), Lula da Silva / Lysâneas Dias Maciel (PT)
Paulo Evarista Arns is kidnapped and shortly after Wladmir Herzog; revelation of the TPP project (which in real life is known as Brasil: Nunca Mais - TPP was a random acronym used by researchers to maintain secrecy) after an unaware assistant to Cardinal Arns uses it as example of cross-faith cooperation in public newsletter. Chaos follows in the government and outside; Geisel moves to tamp down on the excesses of the torturers but the young officer class revolts and begins a bombing campaign throughout Rio de Janeiro. Geisel is overthrown in February, 1976 and de Abreu, the Chief of Staff and right-hand man of hardliner Médici, is brought in to represent their interests. However, mass revolt is imminent as the murder of the leader of the largest Archdiocese in the world causes both international condemnation from the Church and Democratic candidate Jimmy Carter (eager to establish his credibility as an advocate for human rights) as well as uprisings from all corners of society. The progressive church institutions centered in the Northeast encourage mass protest, further inflamed by encouragements from middle-class outlets like Veja and Folha de São Paulo as well as a mass strike in São Paulo's heavy industrial 'ABC' region led by Lula da Silva. The initial repression is immense; curfews are implemented across major urban centers, the ranks of the military judiciary are beefed up immensely to further prosecute the new intakes of 'disappeared' protest leaders and civilian dissidents, torture (which briefly waned under Geisel) is widely encouraged by de Abreu and sees a notable increase in sexual torture and "edge of life" torture (ex. drownings), and mass violence takes place; most notably during the funeral mass for Cardinal Arns, as public turnout (which had been greatly limited by the de Abreu government) grossly exceeds government expectations and security officials turn violent.
However, Pandora's Box has been opened; the people are clearly against the military, and international opinion has grossly turned against the military outside of the anti-communist right. The beginnings of the international sanctions regime begin in earnest as the Carter/Church ticket begins campaigning on ending all military aid and cooperation with the Brazilian government as well as a financial services freeze and a ban on the sale of goods, services and technology related to aerospace, computer technology and construction (all financial sectors heavily influenced by the military, or on the matter of construction, the top of the military regime). Brazil's B3 Stock Exchange undergoes a panic as jolted foreign investors and horrified civilian elites begin selling off assets en masse; this is the final straw. Golbery do Couto e Silva, who articulated the academic justification for the coup back in '64, leads a group of "moderates" to counter-coup de Abreu and Médici and begin the abertura - the opening - of society continuously promised by the dictatorship but never delivered. The old electoral college is abolished and direct elections are nominally guaranteed; however, the transition is viewed as fragile, with the threat of a still-powerful military lashing out at a civilian President omnipresent. Two civilian trends emerge; middle-class, pro-democracy moderates represented by MDB Congressman Ulysses Guimaraes, while the union movement, radicalized youth and the mass of increasingly radicalized poor Catholics (represented by the decentralized Comunidades Eclesiais de Base, essentially spontaneous churches of the poor and rural poor led by lay priests) represented by Lula da Silva and the hastily-created Worker's Party. Lula's radicalism is too much for the military to stomach, and while outright repression is impossible, the Worker's Party is denied registration by the Supreme Court on technicalities and is barred from participating in the elections. Leonel Brizola, as the only left candidate remaining, surges thanks to Lula's full support, but Guimaraes limps over the finish line, beating Brizola's PDT and the new successor party to the dictatorship, the aptly named Democratic Party.
While President Carter has made his support for the inauguration of Guimaraes public, it is currently unknown whether he will become Brazil's first directly elected President since 1964.
Based off a real anecdote related by Jaime Wright to Lawrence Weschler in his book A Miracle, A Universe, based off research from Weschler's writing, John D. French's biography Lula and His Politics of Cunning, Ann Mische's Partisan Publics: Communication and Contention across Brazilian Youth Activist Networks and Maud Chirio's Politics in Uniform: Military Officers and Dictatorship In Brazil, 1960-1980.
Does seem like the sort of thing that could actually happen. I've thought the same thing but with two shades of purple (as a way of representing that they both use red, white and blue, as some people do with the SDP here).Just quietly, my favourite part of this list is that the Democrats and Republicans are just two different shades of the same colour.