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Marxist Analysis of American politics:

Support base of the Democratic Party
-The Bourgeoise
-The Proletariat

Support base of the Republican Party
-The Landlord
-The Petit-Bourgeoisie
-The Semi-Feudal Semi-Colonial Comprador Class
-The Self-Loathing Professional Manager-Operator who inherited a car dealership
-The Lumpen “Whitey-tariat” as described by J. Sakai
-Rick Scott
 
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College Football, Coca-Cola, and the Apex of American Christofascism ​

1989-1993: George H.W. Bush/ Dan Quayle (Republican)
def. Michael Dukakis/ Lloyd Bentsen (Democratic)

1993-1995: George H.W. Bush†/ Colin Powell (Republican)
def. Bill Clinton/ Paul Tsongas (Democratic), Ross Perot/ James Stockdale (Independent, dropped out)

1995-1997: Colin Powell/ vacant (Republican)

1997-1997: Steve Largent/ Douglas Coe (Independent, endorsed by U.S. Taxpayer's)
def. Norm Rice/ George J. Mitchell (Democratic), Colin Powell/ Tommy Thompson (Republican)
1997-2001: Steve Largent/ Douglas Coe (Republican)

2001-20XX: Wesley Clark/ Ann Richards (Democratic)
def. Steve Largent/ Douglas Coe (Republican)

- George H.W Bush decides against picking Dan Quayle as Vice President again, putting General Colin Powell on the bottom of the ticket. A recovering economy and Ross Perot's decision to drop out of the race ensure his re-election, though many Americans take note of Perot's strength as a candidate despite his status as an independent politician.

- The second Bush administration oversees more foreign policy successes with the invasion of Haiti, NATO intervention in the Yugoslav Wars, and the UN occupation of Peru following the Sendero Luminoso regime's removal. American hegemony has been cemented, God is in his heaven and all is right with the world.

- Much like Nixon, Bush often utilizes "the beast", an informal network of far-right financial and military interests, to ensure the success of his foreign and domestic policy. And much like Nixon, the beast turns on Bush as their interests begin to clash. While attending a Christmas celebration at Rockefeller Center, Bush is killed by Andreas Strassmeir, a neo-Nazi suicide bomber with CIA ties.

- Powell attempts to continue the policies of his predecessors but he finds Congress difficult to negotiate with as the armed forces finds themselves drawn into increasingly unpopular quagmires. Many belonging to the neo-colonial caste of "white people" grow apprehensive towards a black man in the Oval Office, despite his dedicated service to the American empire.

- The growing Christofascist militia movements rear their head with the Presidential candidacy of former pro footballer and freshman congressman, Steve Largent. Largent selects televangelist Douglas Coe as his running mate, head of the powerful "Fellowship Foundation", known for its covert intervention in diplomatic affairs on behalf of American interests.

- The Democrats choose the liberal, charismatic, African-American Governor of Washington to lead the ticket, hoping to preserve their coalition of college-educated whites and ethnic minorities against Powell's campaign of moderate conservatism. However, the memories of racial uprisings following the murder of O.J. Simpson remain fresh in the minds of many voters. Ultimately, the United States of America remains too fascistic and underdeveloped to avoid rallying behind the banner of dog whistles, evangelical fundamentalism, and Jeffersonian smallholder fascism.

- Largent begins the process of centralizing power around the executive branch and appeals to anti-NAFTA sentiment, though the process remains gradual, as he is forced to accrue support from Newt Gingrich's Republican Party. That is until Islamic terrorist Ramzi Yousef bombs an American airliner mid-flight with an explosive suitcase, raining fire and shrapnel over the city of New York. This attack is used as a precedent to pass increasingly authoritarian anti-terrorist acts and launch an expeditionary force to remove the Al-Qaeda-affiliated government in Sudan.

- Though re-election seems certain for Largent, a whistleblower reveals that his administration employed the services of private military corporations associated with convicted far-right terrorists to assist in the occupation of Sudan. This revel causes him to lose support among much of the American populace, leading to the election of General Wesely Clark and a self-coup attempt by Largent to install himself as President for life. His attempt is unsuccessful and the liberal hawk who called for internment camps against "disloyal Americans" becomes president. God is in his heaven and all is right with the world.
 
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Punk Rock (popularized after Ronald Reagan, the pinnacle of Yakubian science was elected as President) -> Emocore (went mainstream after 130,000 American stormtroopers were ordered to loot and kill by a guy now who paints dogs) -> Hyperpop (a direct reaction to the election of Donald Trump, evolution in social media, increasing politicization of youth)

Conclusion: Evolutions in the American "music" scene are a direct reaction to Republican administrations. Predictive models tell us the next Republican President will be the mayor of a large suburban city in a blue state (likely an Asian-American woman in her 50s) playing off the landowner fantasies among the American petit-bourgeoise. Common logic allows one to deduce that this music genre will be born of Milwaukee trap's growing influence on mainstream music as the great lakes becomes a rising hub center of internal migrants after the american southwest is rendered inhabitable for its hubris against god. One can argue the rising economic misfortunes created by the changing climate and delinking of american hegemony will be impetus behind this genre's rise.
 
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Devil's Chessboard: TL where Kennedy and De Gaulle switch fates

De Gaulle is assassinated in 1962 by CIA-funded OAS veterans. Kennedy uses this as pretext to remove Dulles’ from the CIA only to become targeted by Dulles loyalists who employ Cuban fascists and the Italian mafia against him. Kennedy responds by employing death squads recruited from the Irish Mob to purge the national security state of his political opponents. Kennedy ultimately wins the power struggle and establishes the Second American Republic.

Further Amendnums:
- Che Guevera dies in the Cuban Revolution => Castro is more reluctant to embrace Communism
- Despite his nationalization of mafia-owned properties, the realpolitik-minded Kennedy decides to establish diplomatic ties with Cuba
- This angers Dulles and the Cuban exiles who mobilize against Kennedy's political supporters, liquidating dozens of dissidents
- Kennedy eventually calls for the resignation of Dulles and begins to purge Dulles loyalists from the CIA
- As revenge, a squad of Cuban exiles led by Ricardo Morales Navarette attempts to assassinate Kennedy but end up killing his wife
- Following the failed assassination attempt, RFK mobilizes death squads to kill off the Cuban-Cosa Nostra conspiracy within America
- Kennedy manages to eke out a victory over Goldwater's conservative coalition and the Civil Rights Act of 1965 is passed
- The assassination of Adam Clayton Powell leads to uprisings across America and increasing ethnic tensions
- The pressure of the presidency and Kennedy's drug addiction causes him to die of a heart attack
- Lyndon Johnson (as the Pompidou of TTL) continues Kennedy's New Deal, intervenes in the DR, but dies from the CIA heart attack gun
 
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I take my balls off and then my dick start bleedin' (what? Yeah, what? Yeah)
I take my balls off and then my dick start bleedin' (what? Yeah, yeah, what?)
Bleedin', bleedin', penis start bleedin' (yeah)
Bleedin' (ayy), bleedin' (what?), I think my penis start bleedin' (what? What?)
 
U.S. as Brazil (unfinished)

THE OLD REPUBLIC
1932-1936: John Nance Garner/ vacant (Democratic)
1936-1945: Geronimo Clark/ Christopher Bouquet (Progressive)
1945-1952: John J. McCloy/ Dwight H. Green (Republican)
1952-1956: Robert M. La Follette Jr./Homer Bone (American Labor)
1956-1957: Homer Bone/ vacant (Progressive)
1957-1961: Prescott Bush/ Allan Shivers (Republican)
1961-1961: Geronimo Clark/ Homer Bone (Democratic-Progressive)
1961-1964: Homer Bone/ Sargent Shriver (Progressive-Independent)

THE REGIME
1964-1965: Hamilton Fish III/ vacant (Republican)
1965-1966: Curtis LeMay/ Ezra Taft Benson (Nationalist)
1967-1969: Edwin Walker/ Robert B. Anderson (Nationalist)
1969-1976: Edward Lansdale/ (Nationalist)
1977-1981:

THE NEW REPUBLIC
 
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U.S. as Brazil (unfinished)

THE OLD REPUBLIC
1932-1936: John Nance Garner/ vacant (Democratic)
1936-1945: Robert M. La Follette Jr./ William H. Murray (Liberal)
1945-1952: John J. McCloy/ Dwight H. Green (Republican)
1952-1956: Robert M. La Follette Jr./ Glen Taylor (Progressive)
1956-1957: Glen Taylor/ vacant (Progressive)
1957-1961: Prescott Bush/ Allan Shivers (Republican)
1961-1961: Earl Long/ Homer Bone (Democratic-Progressive)
1961-1964: Homer Bone/ Sargent Shriver (Progressive-Independent)

THE REGIME
1964-1965: Hamilton Fish III/ vacant (Republican)
1965-1966: Curtis LeMay/ Ezra Taft Benson (Nationalist)
1967-1969: Edwin Walker/ Robert B. Anderson (Nationalist)
1969-1976: Edward Lansdale/ (Nationalist)
1977-1981:

THE NEW REPUBLIC
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LaFollette is Vargas I assume, Bone is Goulart.

Who is Quadros again? Long?
 
UPON THE SHINING SEA​

Presidents of the United States of America

1869-1873: Ulysses S. Grant/ Schuyler Colfax (Republican)
1873-1877: Ulysses S. Grant/ Henry Wilson (Republican) [1]
1877-1881: William A. Wheeler/ vacant (Republican) [2]
1881-1889: Joel Parker/ Richard M. Bishop (Democratic) [3]
1889-1893: Arthur P. Gorman/ William F. Vilas (Democratic) [4]
1893-1898: John H. Mitchell/ Harrison H. Riddleberger (Republican) [5]
1898-1901: Harrison H. Riddleberger/ vacant (Republican)
1901-pres: Thomas Watson/Stephen M. White (Progressive-Democratic) [6]

[1] Oversaw the annexation of the Dominican Republic and American intervention in the Ten Years' War
[2] Took a stance towards the appeasement of white southerners, overseeing the end of Reconstruction and anti-Klan laws
[3] Pushed through civil service reforms, expanded the Monroe Doctrine, and lowered tariffs to cement American trade interests
[4] Attempted to maintain the Democratic Bourbon economic conservative status quo but suffered from the Panic of 1893
[5] Cemented the Republican's conservative nativist anti-black stances but resigned after being impeached by Congress for bigamy
[6] The herald of the progressive era, racial democracy, and American integralist fascism

Governors of Santo Domingo

1869-1873: Gregorio Luperón (Republican)
1873-1881: José María Cabral (Republican)
1881-1885: Buenaventura Báez (Democratic)
1885-1893: Francisco Gregorio Billini (Democratic)
1893-1897: Marcos Antonio Cabral (Democratic)
1897-pres: Juan Isidro Jimenes (Democratic)
 
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Kerguelen said:
In another timeline, William Jennings Bryan could've been elected President and established American Fascism (a racial supremacist popular dictatorship centered around a coalition of petit-bourgeoise urbanites and farmers)
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TRUE
 
COVID-1939​

"As the Baltic Flu swept through Europe, it swept through a continent torn apart by the twin Nazi and Soviet empires, a continent on the verge of war. Unlike the Spanish Flu of the previous decade, the disease targeted the old and the sick, filling their lungs with viscous fluid. Those who survived could find themselves infected again, with survivors developing symptoms of psychosis and mental uncertainty. Like the Black Death, a new world was born in the aftermath of this terrible pandemic, a world ravaged by war and disease in the shadow of fascism, a world to be divided by the new twin empires."

- Bloodlands by Timothy D. Snyder​


List of Leaders of the Third German Reich

1934-1939: Adolf Hitler (NSDAP)
1939-1944: Hermann Goring (NSDAP)
1944-1944: Hermann Fegelein, interim (NSDAP)
1944-1945: transition to the Second German Republic
1945-1949: Andreas Hermes (Christian Democratic)
1949-pres: Otto Grotewohl (Social Democratic)


List of Leaders of the Soviet Union

1924-1945: Joseph Stalin (Communist)
1945-1947: Andrei Zhdanov (Communist)
1947-1951: Vyacheslav Molotov (Communist)
1951-1951: The Cultural Revolution
1951-1951: Andrei Zhdanov (Communist)
1951-pres: Alexey Kuznetsov (Communist)

List of Leaders of the United States of America

1933-1941: Franklin D. Roosevelt (Democratic)
1941-1942: Wendell Willkie (Republican)
1942-1949: Hanford MacNider (Republican)
1949-1951: Claude Pepper (Democratic)
1951-1953: Claude Pepper, de jure (Democratic)
1951-1953: William D. Leahy, de facto (Military)
1953-pres: Hanford MacNider (Independent)
 
BEYOND THE SHINING SEA - A POST-DICTATORSHIP AMERICA
"Always waiting, here at the shore. For her to return. Girl Child Revolution."

THE OLD REPUBLIC​
1933-1945: Earl Long/ Philip LaFollete (Progressive)
1945-1946: Eugene Talmadge/ Jouett Shouse (Democratic-Republican)
1946-1953: Jouett Shouse/ John J. McCloy (Democratic-Republican)
1953-1957: Prescott Bush/ Allan Shivers (Democratic-Republican)
1957-1961: Earl Long/ George Meany (Independent-Solidarity)
1961-1961: Earl Long/ Monroe Sweetland (Independent-Socialist)
1961-1964: Monroe Sweetland/ vacant (Socialist)

THE REGIME​
1964-1965: Joseph P. Kennedy/ vacant (Democratic-Republican)
1965-1966: George S. Patton/ Ezra Taft Benson (American Patriotic)
1966-1966: Ezra Taft Benson/ vacant (American Patriotic)
1966-1969: Curtis LeMay/ Thomas S. Gates Jr. (American Patriotic)
1969-1977: Edward Lansdale/ William Buckley (American Patriotic)
1977-1980: Edward Lansdale/ Joseph Kittinger (American Patriotic)
1980-pres: Joseph Kittinger/ vacant (Independent)

THE SECOND RECONSTRUCTION​
TBD

Very Broad Outline (loosely based on OTL Brazilian and Indonesian history):
- Following the Second Civil War, America is prevented from becoming a world power, widely perceived as a member of the semi-colonial "third world"
- In America's place, Argentina has become the global hegemon, Argentinian mercenaries and intelligence agencies are globally feared and reviled
- Long is an analogy to Sukarno/Vargas, a populist dictator whose personalist regime (largely built on his eccentric charisma) falls apart after his death
- The Sweetland administration serves as a mix between late Sukarno and Goulart, a socialistic anti-Argentinian government exploring civil rights reform
- The post-coup dictatorship is a rough analogy to the Golkar/ARENA regime, embarking on mass purges against minorities and political dissidents
- The end of the right-wing Argentine-backed regime leads to the rise of liberal democracy as a nation torn apart by fascism looks to an uncertain future
- Major issues include reconciliation, corruption, racial discrimination, class inequality, economic decline, and the looming shadow of the military regime
 
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