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In OTL, Wolfe Tone, an Irish revolutionary, wanted to establish a British military colony in Hawaii in 1790 but Prime Minister Pitt refused it. Later on he wanted to enlist in the British East India Company in the early 1790s, but he was too late with his application. Instead he moved on into politics, where he fought for Catholic and Presbyterian rights, and this led him to becoming a revolutionary against British rule in Ireland, joining the revolutionary Society of United Irishmen. It, led by him, launched the Irish Rebellion of 1798 in alliance with the French First Republic in the name of establishing a democratic non-sectarian republic. The rebellion failed, he was arrested, and he shot himself in prison before he could be executed. The fact that this person, in many ways an anti-imperial revolutionary, was so willing to expand the might of the British Empire, demonstrates how Irish nationalists could often be quite cold towards fellow victims of colonialism.

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Political Career of Theobald Wolfe Tone (1763-1837)

1790-1796: Governor of Fort Fair Haven, Sandwich Islands
1796-1805: Governor of the Sandwich Islands
1807-1812: Governor of Bombay Presidency, British East India Company
1813-1818: Independent Member of Parliament, Mayo County
1818-1837: Whig Member of Parliament, Mayo County
1830-1834: Secretary of State for War and the Colonies


Born to a family within the Protestant Ascendancy of Ireland, on his father's side Wolfe Tone was from a family which moved from England, and on his mother's side he was from famed Wolfe family, a family which produced many British officers, most notably James Wolfe, the man who in 1759 commanded the army which conquered Canada for the British - and died in the act. This relation to James Wolfe became a lifelong obsession, as Wolfe Tone desired deeply to emulate his bravery. As a young man, he studied law in Dublin, eloping with a woman who became his wife Matilda, and he later studied law in England, becoming a barrister. In 1790, he presented a plan for establishing a military colony in the Sandwich Islands (now Owhyee) to Prime Minister Pitt, who accepted it.

And so, Wolfe Tone led a fleet of British ships to Hawaii. There, they established a colony in the port known to the native people of the area as Honolulu, and this colony of Fort Fair Haven was dominated by a large military presence. Initially he did so with the consent of the local chieftain Kamehameha, who believed they could be allies, but Wolfe Tone was a man who wanted to prove himself, and so he aggressively pushed and expanded the influence of Fort Fair Haven. Thus, he naturally got into conflict with Kamehameha, and in 1792 the two fought the Battle of Fair Haven, with Kamehameha intent on sweeping the British base into the sea and Wolfe Tone intent on proving his bravery through military conquest. In battle the British quickly gained the upper hand through their guns, and after Kamehameha was killed, the British won their victory, propping a puppet king to rule in his place.

Yet, this did not end opposition, and numerous chiefs declared their refusal to recognize this clear puppetry. And so Wolfe Tone sent the British army after them, and it rapidly conquered the Big Island. Yet this brought him in disputes with the chiefs in the islands of Mowhyee and Ohahyu, and he swiftly conquered them in turn, deferring his resignation to deal with them. In 1796, new regiments came to "pacify" the Sandwich Islands, launching a highly brutal campaign to establish British rule and helped in no small part by a smallpox epidemic, and the British government now recognized Wolfe Tone's authority over the Sandwich Islands. Yet, resistance proved harsh, and it took until 1804 for the Islands to fall under British influence. In some cases this rule was by puppet chiefs and in others it was under direct rule. And so, in 1805, Wolfe Tone was finally recalled; while some even then criticized him for his role in conquering the Sandwich Islands, most Britons regarded him as a hero, spreading the stamp of British authority to a faraway land. And he reveled in this pride, believing he lived up to his venerable cousin, even as the people of the Sandwich Islands damned him and the fleet he led.

In 1807, he became Governor of the Bombay Presidency, in which he aggressively expanded British authority over the ruins of the Maratha Empire and attacked Pindari raiders. His heavy-handed approach helped cause the Third Anglo-Maratha War in 1813. Yet, in 1812 he had already resigned, leaving his successors to deal with the war he helped cause. He went on to be elected Member of Parliament, with his long military service having made him a proud Briton in the imperial sense, and he had many connections; perhaps it was inevitable that an Anglo-Irish Anglican would become a proud Briton connected to the establishment.

Initially, he was an independent, influenced by the aristocrats who made him an MP in the first place, but he broke with them and joined up with the Whigs, quickly making himself known as a firm frontbencher for his aggressive pleas for reform. During the 1820s, he strongly backed Catholic emancipation, voting for the emancipation bills of 1823 and 1825 and the Catholic Emancipation Act of 1829 in turn because he firmly believed in religious equality; yet, he also criticized how they increased the franchise qualification in Ireland to ten pounds, and he pushed failed amendments against them. This was all a substantial break with the Anglo-Irish establishment many thought he was part of, and it surprised many. Following the Whigs coming to power in 1830, he was made War Secretary, in accord with his experience. Yet, his history conquering Owhyee ultimately bit him. The great Irish nationalist Daniel O'Connell, who believed in solidarity with all oppressed peoples, damned Wolfe Tone, calling him the "Butcher of the Sandwich Islands". With O'Connell's influence over Ireland vast, this resulted in many Irish people hating him. And so, after the Whigs returned to power in 1835, as part of the Repeal-Whig pact, Wolfe Tone did not come back to the cabinet. He died in 1837, no longer as respected as he once was.

Today, Wolfe Tone is a footnote in Irish history, and indeed his name is associated much more with British history, specifically the history of the British Empire. His role in conquering Owhyee made him and make him a figure of intense hatred among not only the native people, but also by the Indo-Owhyeeans brought in later as indentured servants. In the colonial Sandwich Islands, numerous places were named in his honour, and numerous statues of him were put up. The Owhyee Liberation Army, in its attacks against the targeted these statues and destroyed many of them; following independence, the remaining statues were destroyed, and the places named after him were renamed, as his name's association with colonialism made it unthinkable to leave them be. Even today in modern Owhyee, his name is synonymous with the horrors of the colonial era, even though many of them occurred long after he was gone.
 
Republican-wank

1969-1974: Richard Nixon (Republican)
1974-1981: Gerald Ford (Republican)
1981-1989: Ronald Reagan (Republican)
1989-1997: George H.W. Bush (Republican)
1997-2005: Colin Powell (Republican)
2005-2009:
Zell Miller (Democrat)
2009-2017: Arnold Schwarzenegger (Republican)
2017-present: Nikki Haley (Republican)
 
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i had to google this movie even fucking existed because of how you mentioned it

if you're doing this, i'm going to have to make a writeup for my fucking boy mayor of second life leaderlist and post it here

very good list tho lmao
Mayors of Second Life
Start of Time-2015: Boy Mayor of Second Life (Independent)
2015-2016: Duran Duran (Emergency Government)
2016-: Boy Mayor of Second Life (Independent)

2016 def: Duran Duran (Duran Duran Party)

The Boy Mayor of Second Life is perhaps the greatest political thinker and actor in Second Life history. As Mayor of Second Life, he was widely beloved, and seen as a great and long-standing figure in the history of Second Life.

Unfortunately, The Boy Mayor in 2015 took a leave of absence, and the land was overtaken by the dark forces of the 80's New Wave Pop Band Duran Duran. Duran Duran destroyed all monuments to the Boy Mayor, and left the land fallow and dirty, covered in pleasure clubs.

In 2016, the Boy Mayor returned, and with the helpful assistance of campaign manager Totinos (Sponsored by Totino's, inventors of Totino's Pizza Rolls. Totino's Pizza Rolls, what's even in there? I love it.) The Boy Mayor's whistlestop campaign was met with opposition from groups that claimed to advocate for "Free Speech", and yet refused to hear out the extremely popular policy of Canine Suffrage.

On election day, the Boy Mayor's electoral headquarters roared with life, as he celebrated the victory over those dark bastards in Duran Duran. He and numerous Gexes travelled far and wide, from the abandoned wasteland of Muddy's Country to the home base of Duran Duran themselves.

Truly, the Boy Mayor is the Second Life. Some would say, even the third.
 
Gene's Vision

1961-1965: John F. Kennedy (Democratic)
1960 (with Walter Reuther) def. Richard Nixon (Republican), Harry F. Byrd Sr. (unpledged Democratic electors)
1964 (with George Smathers) def. Barry Goldwater (Republican), Roy Reuther (Labor)

1965-1970: George Smathers (Democratic)
1968 (with Jimmy Hoffa) def. George W. Romney (Republican), Eugene McCarthy (Progressive)
1970-1971: Jimmy Hoffa (Democratic)
1971-1971: Jimmy Hoffa (Independent "Solidarity")
1971-1972: Carl Albert (Democratic)
1972-1973: James Eastland (Democratic)
1972 voided; incomplete counts indicated a hung electoral college between George McGovern (Progressive), George Wallace (Democratic) and Nelson Rockefeller (Republican)
1973-1973: William Westmoreland (Democratic, leading Military Junta)
1973-1974: George McGovern / Gene Roddenberry / Huey Newton / Bernardine Dohrn (Revolutionary Committees of Correspondence)
1974-0000: Gene Roddenberry (New World Liberation Front)
1974 ('Phase 1' coalition with Progressives) def. numerous Independents, Lyndon LaRouche (New Labor)
1979 ('Phase 2' majority) def. numerous Independents, Tom McCall (Progressive), Lyndon LaRouche (New Labor)
 
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Gene's Vision

1961-1965: John F. Kennedy (Democratic)
1960 (with Walter Reuther) def. Richard Nixon (Republican), Harry F. Byrd Sr. (unpledged Democratic electors)
1964 (with George Smathers) def. Barry Goldwater (Republican), Roy Reuther (Labor)

1965-1970: George Smathers (Democratic)
1968 (with Jimmy Hoffa) def. George W. Romney (Republican), Eugene McCarthy (Progressive)
1970-1971: Jimmy Hoffa (Democratic)
1971-1971: Jimmy Hoffa (Independent "Solidarity")
1971-1972: Carl Albert (Democratic)
1972-1973: James Eastland (Democratic)
1972 voided; incomplete counts indicated a hung electoral college between George McGovern (Progressive), George Wallace (Democratic) and Nelson Rockefeller (Republican)
1973-1973: William Westmoreland (Democratic, leading Military Junta)
1973-1974: George McGovern / Gene Roddenberry / Huey Newton / Bernardine Dohrn (Revolutionary Committees of Correspondence)
1974-0000: Gene Roddenberry (New World Liberation Front)
1974 ('Phase 1' coalition with Progressives) def. numerous Independents, Lyndon LaRouche (New Labor)
1979 ('Phase 2' majority) def. numerous Independents, Tom McCall (Progressive), Lyndon LaRouche (New Labor)

Kennedy goes through with the idea of making Reuther his V-P, but without LBJ on the ticket to lock down the South he's even more reliant on the likes of Sam Giancana to secure victory in 1960. As such, he can hardly ignore instructions to take back Cuba from the hands of godless (and anti-casino) socialism. The Bay of Pigs has some more effort put behind it and secures a toehold for American-backed invasion that soon becomes a roiling civil war not far from Florida. While the USSR distances itself from Castro, the spectre of Trotskyism is able to make itself relevant for the first time in about 30 years, in the camps of Castro and Guevara.

At home, the heightening of the conflict in Cuba and Kennedy's pursuit of anti-communism escalation in Europe and Indochina leads to greater conflict with his V-P. This gets worse as Kennedy is forced to compromise with his party's southern conservatives. Reuther uses his position to support industrial action in favour of civil rights and opposition to the war, bringing him up against AFL president George Meany. In 1963, Reuther is assassinated by a concerned citizen (looks at camera) and Kennedy cleaves further to the party's right as political violence worsens over the years. In 1964, this is exemplified by the selection of Smathers as his new V-P. Roy Reuther attempts an independent run but his Labor party never earns the universal endorsement of the American labour movement. However, its a good start for whats to come.

Kennedy stands down due to his health in 1965, and Smathers heightens the issues plaguing America as the 1960s draw to a close. Cuba is the Mafia's country at least on the surface, but much further than Havana and you seen find that the focos are in charge. The ideas of Castro, Guevara and Trotsky make their way to America, where they are picked up by the radicalising anti-war movement. And there's another figure whose ideas join them - the Cuban Trotskyites just so happen to be dominated by acolytes of J. Posadas.

In 1968, Democratic progressives go 'clean for Gene', but it doesn't amount to much - McCarthy's run gets further than Roy Reuther's but between the endorsement of the AFL and the Teamsters going to Smathers and Romney's gaffes, the Democrats keep a firm grip on power. The wheels start falling off after 1968 however. A generation of students had cut their ideological teeth at pacifist sit-ins, they had graduated into an atmosphere of virtually unprecedented political violence. They were ready to bring the war home.

In 1970, the students went on strike. The radicalising American labor movement soon joined them - Hoffa saw which way the wind was blowing and while he disagreed with the objectives and ideology of SDS, saw an opportunity for his own advancement. The American General Strike brought down Smathers and for a few strange moments, it seemed that Jimmy Hoffa had managed to make American politics revolve around himself. But he was swiftly impeached on hurriedly unearthed corruption charges. Weeks later, Carl Albert was dead in a drunken car accident. And so James Eastland 'The Most Racist President' rose to power. The general strike was put down, bloodily. It meant a redeployment of troops that cost the mafia control of Cuba ad brought Posadism to power for the first time. But not the last.

Back in Smathers' day, a kind of Third Red Scare struck - it cost many young writers their careers. One of them, was Gene Roddenberry. His vision of a utopian future was simply too much, too far, too close to Communism, for the new blacklisters to stand. If he had been close to communism before, they made sure of it. Roddenberry found himself drawn to the idea of Posadas, that nuclear war and alien contact may be stepping stones toward an international socialist utopia free of war, poverty and disease. Maybe dolphins are sapient idk.

The 1972 election was a turning point - the Progressives finally surged forward to a point of relevance as the Democrats and Republicans ran deeply regionalist campaigns that fought over the same authoritarian hawkish ground. Initial counts indicated an electoral college plurality for the left that threatened to end the Cold War possibly. That couldn't be allowed to happen. Recently retired Army Chief of Staff, returned from the debacle of Cuba, led a march on Washington that prevented the complete results from being declared.

His brief installation as acting President by a hastily assembled Electoral College with an unclear democratic mandate turned what had been a fairly centre-left Progressive movement into a revolutionary one. George McGovern soon found himself sharing the stage at rallies with recently freed hardline figures like Huey Newton and leaders of the homegrown focos such as Bernardine Dohrn. And ideologues of Posadism like Gene Roddenberry. The actual extent of the NCC was much wider and more diverse than most lists indicate. But McGovern, Newton, Dohrn and Roddenberry were the most important in the making the Second American Revolution a success.

The strange parliamentary elections held after the brief civil war, which banned counter-revolutionary organisations, saw the Communists of all stripes (Stalinist, Trotskyist, Maoist, whatever) band together and form an at-arms-length alliance with the Progressives. The centre-left's time was done, revolution was in the air. And Roddenberry was at the centre of it all. He was on the edge of the new revolutionary culture that was emerging - one that promised sexual liberation. While Dohrn's allies had always 'dug' such ideas, Roddenberry was a much more keen and natural adherent. By the time of Phase 2, he had taken control of the NWLF entirely. Posadism had come to America - nuclear war is ironically less likely now than it has been at any time since 1945.
 
Posadism had come to America - nuclear war is ironically less likely now than it has been at any time since 1945.

The these about nuclear war quickly falls to the wayside once you prove revolution is actually still possible without it, so that's pretty coherent. Posadas went with that mostly out of desperation I think.

Though the Trotskyist descended movement is unlikely to be that friendly to the USSR, it's also probably in no position to ramp up tension with it.

Bit of a shame to see the other revolutionary leaders fall to the wayside. The interplay of a broad revolutionary party that includes all of them would be neat.
 
I cannot believe @Mumby posted a "well-known sci-fi creator takes over in the turbulence of the 1970s" scenario as I was working on this

1969-1973: Richard Nixon (Republican)
1968 (with Spiro Agnew) def. Hubert Humphrey (Democratic), George Wallace (American Independent)
1973-1977: Harold Hughes (Democratic)
1972 (with Peter Rodino) def. Richard Nixon (Republican), George Wallace (American Independent)
1977-1979: William Milliken (Republican) †
1976 (with Frank Herbert) def. Edmund Muskie (Democratic), William Dyke (Patriot), Ken Kesey (Referendum)
1979-0000: Frank Herbert (Republican)
1980 (with S. I. Hayakawa) def. Ted Kennedy (Democratic), Jeremiah Denton (Patriot)

I am rereading Dune, and it seems like everyone else is too. I don’t know if it’s the new movie coming out, or if it’s just speaking to our times more than it has in a while. Naturally, given all the serious political thinking in the book, I got to wondering what would’ve happened if Herbert had parlayed his job as a senatorial speechwriter into a career putting his political musings into practice.

Here, Herbert follows up his work for Guy Cordon by pursuing more opportunities in DC; his links to the Republican Party see him nominated to a regional post for the Bureau of Indian Affairs (Native American causes being a lifelong passion of his). Uncomfortable in the world of bureaucracy, he’s soon turning to electoral office instead, bringing the Congressional fight to JFK, who he despised as a charismatic strongman. In 1962, he moves into the big leagues by upsetting longtime Washington senator Warren Magnuson in an otherwise strong year for the Democrats.

While Herbert campaigns as an Old Right fiscal conservative and leans on his Eisenhower-era connections, his personal hobbies – writing science fiction and cultivating psilocybin mushrooms – have already brought him into contact with the still mycelial counterculture. By the late sixties, he’s the Republican Eugene McCarthy, an awkward anti-war libertarian in the Senate with a surprising youth following.

Which puts him in an interesting position once Nixon, who he grudgingly supported, comes down ahead of schedule as the small butterflies of politics expose his malfeasance and let the righteous Midwestern liberal through in 1972. Herbert, always an uneasy fit for the State of Boeing, loses his Senate seat in the following midterms as pro- and anti-Nixon Republicans alike get shown the door. However, the new idealists in the White House are willing to throw their hippie supporters a bone by giving more support to Ken Kesey’s direct democracy experiments. Frank Herbert seems a logical choice for a blue-ribbon commission on Constitutional reform, participatory legislation, the Imperial Presidency, and other groovy ideas.

The National Conference on Participatory Democracy doesn’t go anywhere, of course – Herbert wants sortition and computers, Kesey wants referenda and no computers, and the cross-sections of public they interview aren’t sure what they want, and all of it generates very little interest when inflation and gas prices and terrorism are dominating the headlines. But it does draw the attention of the Republican presidential frontrunner. Milliken sees in Herbert a way to reach both left and right at the same time. A Goldwaterite beatnik will underscore his message: back to Republican principles of low taxes and low inflation, but a new openness in government and no more Nixonian shenanigans.

1976 is your typical colorful Seventies fare – President Hughes stepping down at the last minute to pursue a life of Christian contemplation, Kesey running on government database opt-outs and Montessori schooling, et cetera. And then, as things are starting to creep back to normal, there’s a cultist with a gun. There’s always a cultist with a gun.

-​

Today, the President is brooding. His popularity is recovering as the harsh effects of his inflation measures subside. He’s split the liberals: the new generation is applauding deinstitutionalization and his reversal of the termination policy for Indian nations, while the traditionalists are pointing to his budget proposals and calling him a Social Darwinist. The Republicans have united behind him, as they do, apart from the slipping away of the most hardened warmongers and zealots. America has begun to make peace with its new place in a multipolar, dangerous world.

But his legacy isn’t settled yet. His actual supporters are few; the White House is staffed mostly with young people from the West Coast computer scene. Even his vice president is just an old acquaintance who happens to share some of his academic interests: few Republicans wanted to serve alongside him. There’s no obvious successor.

Presiding over the grinding, dehumanizing bureaucracy of the federal government is a waking nightmare and he wants out. But who else is willing to take that bureaucracy apart? And who else is thinking long-term – about these new discoveries that pollution could render Earth’s climate a hothouse, could make the world a hellish desert?

Frank Herbert is beginning to realize his terrible purpose.
 
I cannot believe @Mumby posted a "well-known sci-fi creator takes over in the turbulence of the 1970s" scenario as I was working on this

1969-1973: Richard Nixon (Republican)
1968 (with Spiro Agnew) def. Hubert Humphrey (Democratic), George Wallace (American Independent)
1973-1977: Harold Hughes (Democratic)
1972 (with Peter Rodino) def. Richard Nixon (Republican), George Wallace (American Independent)
1977-1979: William Milliken (Republican) †
1976 (with Frank Herbert) def. Edmund Muskie (Democratic), William Dyke (Patriot), Ken Kesey (Referendum)
1979-0000: Frank Herbert (Republican)
1980 (with S. I. Hayakawa) def. Ted Kennedy (Democratic), Jeremiah Denton (Patriot)

I am rereading Dune, and it seems like everyone else is too. I don’t know if it’s the new movie coming out, or if it’s just speaking to our times more than it has in a while. Naturally, given all the serious political thinking in the book, I got to wondering what would’ve happened if Herbert had parlayed his job as a senatorial speechwriter into a career putting his political musings into practice.

Here, Herbert follows up his work for Guy Cordon by pursuing more opportunities in DC; his links to the Republican Party see him nominated to a regional post for the Bureau of Indian Affairs (Native American causes being a lifelong passion of his). Uncomfortable in the world of bureaucracy, he’s soon turning to electoral office instead, bringing the Congressional fight to JFK, who he despised as a charismatic strongman. In 1962, he moves into the big leagues by upsetting longtime Washington senator Warren Magnuson in an otherwise strong year for the Democrats.

While Herbert campaigns as an Old Right fiscal conservative and leans on his Eisenhower-era connections, his personal hobbies – writing science fiction and cultivating psilocybin mushrooms – have already brought him into contact with the still mycelial counterculture. By the late sixties, he’s the Republican Eugene McCarthy, an awkward anti-war libertarian in the Senate with a surprising youth following.

Which puts him in an interesting position once Nixon, who he grudgingly supported, comes down ahead of schedule as the small butterflies of politics expose his malfeasance and let the righteous Midwestern liberal through in 1972. Herbert, always an uneasy fit for the State of Boeing, loses his Senate seat in the following midterms as pro- and anti-Nixon Republicans alike get shown the door. However, the new idealists in the White House are willing to throw their hippie supporters a bone by giving more support to Ken Kesey’s direct democracy experiments. Frank Herbert seems a logical choice for a blue-ribbon commission on Constitutional reform, participatory legislation, the Imperial Presidency, and other groovy ideas.

The National Conference on Participatory Democracy doesn’t go anywhere, of course – Herbert wants sortition and computers, Kesey wants referenda and no computers, and the cross-sections of public they interview aren’t sure what they want, and all of it generates very little interest when inflation and gas prices and terrorism are dominating the headlines. But it does draw the attention of the Republican presidential frontrunner. Milliken sees in Herbert a way to reach both left and right at the same time. A Goldwaterite beatnik will underscore his message: back to Republican principles of low taxes and low inflation, but a new openness in government and no more Nixonian shenanigans.

1976 is your typical colorful Seventies fare – President Hughes stepping down at the last minute to pursue a life of Christian contemplation, Kesey running on government database opt-outs and Montessori schooling, et cetera. And then, as things are starting to creep back to normal, there’s a cultist with a gun. There’s always a cultist with a gun.

-​

Today, the President is brooding. His popularity is recovering as the harsh effects of his inflation measures subside. He’s split the liberals: the new generation is applauding deinstitutionalization and his reversal of the termination policy for Indian nations, while the traditionalists are pointing to his budget proposals and calling him a Social Darwinist. The Republicans have united behind him, as they do, apart from the slipping away of the most hardened warmongers and zealots. America has begun to make peace with its new place in a multipolar, dangerous world.

But his legacy isn’t settled yet. His actual supporters are few; the White House is staffed mostly with young people from the West Coast computer scene. Even his vice president is just an old acquaintance who happens to share some of his academic interests: few Republicans wanted to serve alongside him. There’s no obvious successor.

Presiding over the grinding, dehumanizing bureaucracy of the federal government is a waking nightmare and he wants out. But who else is willing to take that bureaucracy apart? And who else is thinking long-term – about these new discoveries that pollution could render Earth’s climate a hothouse, could make the world a hellish desert?

Frank Herbert is beginning to realize his terrible purpose.
I love it, also, No
 
Presiding over the grinding, dehumanizing bureaucracy of the federal government is a waking nightmare and he wants out. But who else is willing to take that bureaucracy apart? And who else is thinking long-term – about these new discoveries that pollution could render Earth’s climate a hothouse, could make the world a hellish desert?

Frank Herbert is beginning to realize his terrible purpose.

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AHC: Charlie Chaplin as the John A. Lee of British Politics
1923-1928: J.R.Clynes (Labour)
1923 (Coalition with Liberals) def: Stanley Baldwin (Conservative), Reginald McKenna replacing H.H. Asquith (Liberal)
1928-1933: Austen Chamberlain (Conservative)
1928 (Majority) def: J.R.Clynes (Labour), Reginald McKenna (Liberal), David Lloyd George (Ind. Liberal)
1933-1936: J.R.Clynes (Labour)
1933 (Majority) def: Austen Chamberlain (Conservative), David Lloyd George (Action), Herbert Samuel (Liberal)
1936-1940: Herbert Morrison (Labour)
1936 (Majority) def: Neville Chamberlain (Conservative), Leslie Hore-Belisha (Liberal)
1940-1945: Herbert Morrison (Labour leading War Coalition)
1945-1949: Herbert Morrison (Labour)

1945 (Majority) def: Anthony Eden (War Conservative-Liberal Alliance), Winston Churchill (Constitutional), Charlie Chaplin (Democratic Labour-Reform Alliance)
1949-1955: Anthony Eden (New Democratic)
1949 (Majority) def: Herbert Morrison (Labour), Charlie Chaplin (Reform)
1953 (Majority) def: Herbert Morrison (Labour), Oliver Baldwin (Reform)

1955-1962: Harold MacMillian (New Democratic)
1958 (Majority) def: George Brown (Labour), Oliver Baldwin (Reform)
1962-1970: Alf Robens (Labour)
1962 (Majority) def: Harold Macmillian (New Democratic), John Strachey (Reform)
1966 (Majority) def: Quentin Hogg (New Democratic), John Strachey (Reform)

1970-: Anthony Barber (New Democratic)
1970 (Majority) def: Alf Robens (Labour), Renée Short (Reform)
 
Political Career of Ron Reagan (1911-2004)

1932-1937: Private citizen, radio host.
1937-1942: Private citizen, actor.

- film credits include Love Is on the Air (1937), Dark Victory (1939), Knute Rockne (1940), All American, Kings Row (1942)
1942-1943: First Lieutenant w/ the 18th AAF Base Unit
1943-1944: Captain w/ the 18th AAF Base Unit

- member of the Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee, the American Veterans Committee, and the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America
1944-1947: Private citizen, actor
- added to the Hollywood Blacklist in 1946, subpoenaed to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee, largely cleared of any links to American communist elements
- as a result, moves further from acting and more towards political activism in California

1948: Convention delegate for President Harry S. Truman
1948-1950: Private citizen, activist

- divorces his first wife Jane Wyman (1940-1949)
1950: Campaign manager for Helen Gahagan Douglas
- Helen Gahagan Douglas defeated Frederick Houser, Albert Levitt
1950-1954: Private citizen, Democratic Party
- considered runs for office in 1952 and 1954, but was deterred by party operatives
1954-1962: Host of General Electric Theater
- contract required him to tour General Electric (GE) plants 16 weeks out of the year, which often demanded that he give 14 talks per day
- made a special broadcast to advocate for President John Kennedy's Medicare Bill, buffeting public support and guaranteeing it's passage

1962-1964: Private citizen, Democratic party
- marries his second wife Naomi Parker Fraley (1955-)
- publicly supported both the establishment of the Peace Corps and expansion of the Food Stamp Act
- spoke at the funeral of John Kennedy, remembered for his "A Time for Choosing" eulogy
- offered a position in the Lyndon Johnson cabinet as Press Secretary, declined

1964: Senator for California
- appointed by Governor Phillip Burton to replace Senator Clair Engle
1964-1976: Senator for California
'64: defeated George Christopher
'70: defeated Norton Simon, William K. Shearer (American Independent)
- denounced the proposed Mulford Act of 1967 as "racially-motivated disarmament"
- advocated for the sentencing of Highway Patrol that participated in "Bloody Thursday" (1969)
- cosponsored the 1969 Family Assistance Plan, despite bipartisan conflict
- Initially vocal against war in Vietnam and pro-Taiwan, later became more hawkish and anti-soviet
- succeeded by Representative Ron Dellums

1968: Candidate for the Democratic Party nomination for President
defeated by Hubert Humphrey, George Wallace, Eugene McCarthy, others
1976: Candidate for the Democratic Party nomination for President
defeated by Jimmy Carter, George Wallace, Frank Church, Sargent Shriver, Birch Bayh, Fred Harris, Terry Sanford, others
1980: Candidate for the Democratic Party nomination for President

defeated Mo Udall, George McGovern, Birch Bayh, others
1981-1989: President of the United States

(with Jesse Jackson)
'80: defeated Gerry Ford/Bob Dole, John Anderson/James Buckley
'84: defeated Howard Baker/Larry Pressler
 
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Would Hayakawa be eligible?

Huh, didn't actually realize he was Canadian-born - I saw something about how he and Herbert collaborated on some linguistics work back in the 50s and just went for it.

I’m sure having Frank Herbert being President during the beginnings of the AIDS Crisis and the beginnings of the Global Warming worries will have no adverse consequences for America and the world...

On one hand, he'd probably pay more attention than Reagan did. (FWIW Herbert's younger son was gay and eventually died of AIDS IOTL.) On the other... well, who knows what an instinctive libertarian with a paradoxically Machiavellian theory of power would do in response to new threats?

Political Career of Ron Reagan (1911-2004)

1932-1937: Private citizen, radio host.
1937-1942: Private citizen, actor.

- film credits include Love Is on the Air (1937), Dark Victory (1939), Knute Rockne (1940), All American, Kings Row (1942)
1942-1943: First Lieutenant w/ the 18th AAF Base Unit
1943-1944: Captain w/ the 18th AAF Base Unit

- member of the Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee, the American Veterans Committee, and the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America
1944-1947: Private citizen, actor
- added to the Hollywood Blacklist in 1946, subpoenaed to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee, largely cleared of any links to American communist elements
- as a result, moves further from acting and more towards political activism in California

1948: Convention delegate for President Harry S. Truman
1948-1950: Private citizen, activist

- divorces his first wife Jane Wyman (1940-1949)
1950: Campaign manager for Helen Gahagan Douglas
- Helen Gahagan Douglas defeated Frederick Houser, Albert Levitt
1950-1954: Private citizen, Democratic Party
- considered runs for office in 1952 and 1954, but was deterred by party operatives
1954-1962: Host of General Electric Theater
- contract required him to tour General Electric (GE) plants 16 weeks out of the year, which often demanded that he give 14 talks per day
- made a special broadcast to advocate for President John Kennedy's Medicare Bill, buffeting public support and guaranteeing it's passage

1962-1964: Private citizen, Democratic party
- marries his second wife Naomi Parker Fraley (1955-)
- publicly supported both the establishment of the Peace Corps and expansion of the Food Stamp Act
- spoke at the funeral of John Kennedy, remembered for his "A Time for Choosing" eulogy
- offered a position in the Lyndon Johnson cabinet as Press Secretary, declined

1964: Senator for California
- appointed by Governor Phillip Burton to replace Senator Clair Engle
1964-1976: Senator for California
'64: defeated George Christopher
'70: defeated Norton Simon, William K. Shearer (American Independent)
- denounced the proposed Mulford Act of 1967 as "racially-motivated disarmament"
- advocated for the sentencing of Highway Patrol that participated in "Bloody Thursday" (1969)
- cosponsored the 1969 Family Assistance Plan, despite bipartisan conflict
- Initially vocal against war in Vietnam and pro-Taiwan, later became more hawkish and anti-soviet
- succeeded by Representative Ron Dellums

1968: Candidate for the Democratic Party nomination for President
defeated by Hubert Humphrey, George Wallace, Eugene McCarthy, others
1976: Candidate for the Democratic Party nomination for President
defeated by Jimmy Carter, George Wallace, Frank Church, Sargent Shriver, Birch Bayh, Fred Harris, Terry Sanford, others
1980: Candidate for the Democratic Party nomination for President

defeated Mo Udall, George McGovern, Birch Bayh, others
1981-1989: President of the United States

(with Jesse Jackson)
'80: defeated Gerry Ford/Bob Dole, John Anderson/James Buckley
'84: defeated Howard Baker/Larry Pressler

Good stuff but I don't think GE would have hired him for the factory lectures if he'd been blacklisted. IOTL the experience of hectoring workers about loyal Americanism and his relationship with Lemuel Boulware was what turned him decisively to the right.
 
(FWIW Herbert's younger son was gay and eventually died of AIDS IOTL.)
I remember reading from Herbert’s other son that Frank was really homophobic and kicked his son out for being gay. I think Herbert’s homophobia is pretty well know in the ScFi community.

Didn’t Mr Herbert also write a short story with a Gay Terrorist Group in it? Or am I remembering another writer there?
 
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