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Lists of Heads of Government and Heads of State

Worried you didn't make up Hypno-Communism

It's fictional but while looking it up I read up on Maoist psychiatry, and the popularity of faith healing via hypnosis in the Soviet Union. Apparently there was a big celebrity doing it on television as the state was collapsing

I looked back a bit and found quite a wide history of hypnosis and then I was like, I have a book on this! LL Vasiliev's methods of mental suggestion. I got it decades ago and haven't cracked it open properly. I assumed it was about hypnosis due to the collection I got it from. Turns out he was a hypnotist, yes, but doing work on hypnosis for telepathy in the 50s and 60s, with work stretching back to the 20s in there.

So yeah, hypno-communism ended up being less about Maoist Speedy Synthetic Therapy and more about the work of Vasiliev. Which meant I could have some fun with it
 
It's fictional but while looking it up I read up on Maoist psychiatry, and the popularity of faith healing via hypnosis in the Soviet Union. Apparently there was a big celebrity doing it on television as the state was collapsing

I looked back a bit and found quite a wide history of hypnosis and then I was like, I have a book on this! LL Vasiliev's methods of mental suggestion. I got it decades ago and haven't cracked it open properly. I assumed it was about hypnosis due to the collection I got it from. Turns out he was a hypnotist, yes, but doing work on hypnosis for telepathy in the 50s and 60s, with work stretching back to the 20s in there.

So yeah, hypno-communism ended up being less about Maoist Speedy Synthetic Therapy and more about the work of Vasiliev. Which meant I could have some fun with it
I have done a GOOD bit of reading into this subject, and there were QUITE A FEW celebrities - Anatoly Kashpirovsky is the most famous (he is now a COVID ghoul, natch) and the now-deceased Allan Chumak was also similarly notable; he enchanted water or cold cream or what have you with supposedly curative powers through the TV! Both of these men were of course politically involved - Kashpirovsky aspired to the presidency and was a Liberal Democratic Duma member!
 
I have done a GOOD bit of reading into this subject, and there were QUITE A FEW celebrities - Anatoly Kashpirovsky is the most famous (he is now a COVID ghoul, natch) and the now-deceased Allan Chumak was also similarly notable; he enchanted water or cold cream or what have you with supposedly curative powers through the TV! Both of these men were of course politically involved - Kashpirovsky aspired to the presidency and was a Liberal Democratic Duma member!

PP-DD had a lot of those people in its ranks,especially their chief promoter on OTV Florin Condurățeanu,who ended up as a member of TVR directive board on behalf of the party and was PP-DD’s Shadow Health Minister.

Also his son ended up as an MP for PP-DD.
 
1969-1974: Richard M.Nixon (Republican)† [1]
1968 (With Spiro Agnew) def. Hubert Humphrey (Democratic), George Wallace (American Independent)
1972 (With Sprio Agnew) def. Hubert Humphrey (Democratic), George Wallace (American Independent) [2]

1974-1977: John Connally (Republican) [3]
1977-1981: Birch Bayh (Democratic) [4]
1976 (With Reubin Askew) def. John Connally (Republican), Tom McCall (Independent) [5]
1981-1989: Donald Rumsfeld (Republican) [6]
1980 (With Paul Laxalt) def. Birch Bayh (Democratic), Henry Howell (Citizens), David Koch (Libertarian) [7]
1984 (With Paul Laxalt) def. John Glenn (Democratic)

1989-: Geraldine Ferraro (Democratic) [8]
1988 (With Sam Nunn) def. William L.Armstrong (Republican), Lowell Weicker (Solidarity)

1). Nixon, Oliver Stone (1995)

“Having gained tons of cache with his trilogy of films on Vietnam, Academy award winning Damascus (1990) and Wall Street (1987), Oliver Stone decided to waste a bunch of that with Nixon, a three hour sprawling mess of a film, about the man that Stone ‘despises more than any other’ who most people are fairly ambivalent about. Nixon follows the titular character (John Lithgow) as he plows through his Presidency slowly creating a Conspiracy around him which begins to unravel in the last two years of his Presidency as Nixon finds himself having to rely on Bob Haldeman (Ed Harris) more than before.

The film would become infamous for its fabrications as Stone alleges that Nixon had G.Gordon Liddy (John Diehl) personally kill journalists, Nixon was connected to the Kennedy assassination and that Nixon was assassinated as a result of being a liability for a cabal of Conservative’s, with Samuel Byck (Benicio del Toro) being the patsy. Stone also has Lithgow scowl and monologue to the audience about his beliefs, plans and paranoia which whilst well done, doesn’t make up for the film’s sagging and unwieldy pace.

Thankfully the film would bomb and Stone would be sent off to write screenplays till ‘Lyndon’ (2001) some years later (which is good but annoyingly meant Stone was allowed to keep making films).”


2). Gumbo, Robert Altman (1973)

“As the Democratic Primaries began to become even more heated and chaotic leading to a turbulent convention, Robert Altman decided that it could work well as the setting for a black comedy. Following a Tom (Keith Carradine) as a supporter of Shirley Chisholm on the Democratic Campaign trail, whilst proclaiming he’s a staunch Liberal (sometimes even claiming to be a Socialist), Tom is a sly schemer who’s drawing up plans to cash in on his credibility amongst activists for any future political runs. Whilst this is happening, his girlfriend Ruth (Shelly Duvall) ponders the future of her relationship with Tom, finding herself becoming increasingly attached to a older Congressman from California called Joe (Warren Beatty). A free wheeling romp through the seedy underbelly of American politics starring a cavalcade of Altman regulars, cameos from eccentric celebrities (Dennis Hopper, Hunter S.Thompson and Jon Voight) and political cameos with folks like a young Gary Hart, Fred Harris, Rev. Jesse Jackson and even a baffled Ed Muskie appearing for brief unscripted segments.

Shot almost like a fly on a wall documentary, the film is an amusing if bleak look at the machinations of both the Democratic Party but also the New Left. The ending sequence in which Hubert Humphrey speech for unity is intercut by Boos and George Wallace’s rallying against the system with his arm in a cast for many signifies the frustrations with the American Democrats in 1972, better than any actual documentary could.”

3). The Lone Star, Joel & Ethan Coen (1999)

“So after a decade starting by helping your goofy director friend make a Superhero blockbuster that you hate, go back to making a series of crime thrillers and independent art house films and then find yourself winning several Academy Awards for a lackadaisical dramedy about a stoned hippie caught up in a Noir story. If it’s making a surprisingly refreshing dramatic comedic biopic of one of the most controversial men in American history, warts and all, then your name is Joel and Ethan Coen.

Whilst shooting Contemplations (1997), Joel Coen would be reading ‘Lone Star: The Connally Story’ by Molly Ivins, a witty cutting biography about the machinations of John Connally. Finding a lot similarities between some of there own stories, the Coen’s would adapt the book and make an award winning film about it.

Starting from the inauguration of President Bayh in 77, the film follows John Connally (Tommy Lee Jones) during his time in the Kennedy administration and beyond, depicting his relationships with President John F. Kennedy (Tim Robbins), Lyndon B. Johnson (John Mahoney, the Coens original pick for Connally), Richard Nixon (Tony Shalhoub) and his relationship with his wife Nellie Connally (Holland Taylor), Hubert Humphrey (John Carroll Lynch) and his arch Republican rival Ronald Reagan (Richard Crenna) over his turbulent political tenure.

Unlike most biopics, the film is more of a dream like exploration of the Connally Presidency, moments of his life clash, dead characters reappear as ghosts haunting the trouble soul. At several moments Connally finds himself arguing with himself done through camera trickery as it establishes that everything is crumbling around Connally. It’s incredibly darkly comedic as the Coen Brothers dry style combines well with Molly Ivins comedic angry message. The Coens would end being nominated for Best Director (which they lost to Sam Mendes) and would win Best Adapted Screenplay, Tommy Lee Jones would be nominated for Best Actor at the 2000 Academy Awards and John Mahoney’s humorous and often times tragic portrayal of Lyndon B.Johnson would net him a Best Supporting Actor award at the same ceremony.

4). He’s Our Guy, Steven Spielberg (1996)

“It’s easy to see why Steven Spielberg why would make the Birch Bayh biopic, with the presidential election coming up and a wave of Seventies nostalgia it was understandable why Spielberg would adapt the story of Birch Bayh to the big screen. Starting in 1962 with his Senate win, the film follows Birch Bayh (Albert Brooks) as he goes from being a Liberal Senator to becoming President of the United States whilst detailing his relationship with his wife Marvella Bayh (Susan Sarandon) problems with cancer. Along the way, Birch finds himself becoming a champion of Liberal causes like ERA but this gains him enemies like George Wallace (Greg Sinise), Donald Rumsfeld (Bill Paxton) and Phylis Schflay (Sissy Spacek) causing Birch to have to seek support from friend Ted Kennedy (Kevin Conroy), Vice President Reubin Askew (Scott Glenn), Congresswoman Bella Abzug (Lainie Kazan) and firebrand Populist and former rival Fred R. Harris (Bruce Campbell).

The biopic is Spielberg firing on all cylinders, Brooks casting at the time seemed unusual but Brooks ability to combine charming, goofy with earnest sincerity would net him an academy award for his troubles. The film that focuses more on Bayh trying to become President whilst dealing with his wife’s illness over political matters though getting the ERA amendment passed and becoming law, which leads to his battles against Schflay that consume a substantial portion of the film. Despite nearly clocking in at three hours, this film is overwhelming a breezy and heartwarming watch with an ending that’ll bring at least a few tears to your eyes”.

5). It Felt Like A Kiss, Adam Curtis (2004)

“Adam Curtis’s documentary series ‘It Felt Like A Kiss’ details the changing Conservative landscape of the Cold War and after. A particular subject is Tom McCall who for Curtis ‘embodies the contradictions and possibilities of the Progressive Conservative movement in the 70s’. Indeed much of the discussion is around McCall’s incorporation of Environmentalist and moderates messaging which made him popular in Oregon but consistently angered the national Republican Party.

Of particular note is analysis of McCall’s attempt to create a Third Force in reaction Connally but finding his message being outshined by Bayh. Indeed through dreamlike editing, McCall’s 76’ campaign is conveyed like the dying dream of the Liberal Republican Wing of the Party, with the last montage sequence of the episode consisting of audio of McCall conceding whilst footage of 70s promises and dreams with the Jesus Mary Chain’s Cut Dead drifting in throughout gave the McCall movement an appropriately bleak send off”

6). Don., Martin Scorsese (2010)

“A film about Donald Rumsfeld had been on the cards for awhile before Martin Scorsese took hold of it and made it the beast of political biopic cinema that we all know. Whilst previous films had shown us the moral corruption, chaos and bleakness of the Rumsfeld Presidency (watch Damascus by Oliver Stone or Heatland by Kathryn Bigelow for good examples of the effect Rumsfeld had on America and the world) Scorsese was more interested in Rumsfeld the man; a contradictory mix of charming, sinister, amusing, bleak and morally corrupt who managed to find himself reelected and consistently liked by enough of the population despite it all.

Don follows the titular Donald Rumsfeld (Kyle MacLachlan in his return to the big screen in about decade) from his days as a Congressman to his last few days as President in which Donald’s uses his affable charm and good old boy nature to slowly manipulate and gain the highest office in the land, with help from his wife’s Joyce (Julianne Moore) and support from figures like Gerald Ford (John Lithgow), Dick Cheney (Vincent D'Onofrio) and Irving Kristol (Alan Alda). Becoming President the film showcases how he used the office to pursue a war with Syria, cut apart the New Deal welfare state with support from folks like Paul Laxalt (John Cusack) and worked with General Alexander Haig (Powers Boothe) to crackdown on ‘worldwide communism’.

Often joked as ‘Scorsese does a crime film but in the White House’ the film with it’s bleak stylish look at the fairly malicious former President would garner Scorsese his Second Best Director and Best Picture Academy Awards whilst Kyle MacLachlan’s portrayal would net him a Golden Globe and signify his big return to big screen acting after a decade of television.”

7). Keep the Big Boys Honest, Spike Lee (2015)

“The adaptation of the Robert Schenkkan play about the two competing Third Party Campaigns of 1980 and there impact is a fascinating watch even if a little too stylistic at times for the source material. Following a Southern Left Wing Populist Henry Howell (Stephen Root) and Libertarian businessman David Koch (Benedict Cumberbatch) as they try and take on bigger political parties.

Showing the grim battles just to get airspace on television, lack of funds and even threats from the other political parties, amusingly the film shows Howell and Koch gaining a common understanding between the two even as there running mates LaDonna Harris (Kimberly Norris Guerrero) and Dick Randolph (Tim Blake Nelson) deeply oppose this and try to avoid any form of understanding. Whilst a fun and quick paced looking at a fascinating election with much praise being given for Kimberly Norris Guerrero and Tim Blake Nelson for there nuanced and well rounded portrayals, Lee’s sometimes overly stylistic flair causes the film to be overwhelming though a unique look at an election then many would rather forget.”

8). She’s The One, Greta Gerwig (2022)

“Geraldine Ferraro existed for a long time in pop culture as a bit of an awkward void. Whilst the popular if controversial two term President was referenced commonly, no one had seriously bothered trying to create a biopic about her. This changes this year with the biopic, She’s The One written and directed by Greta Gerwig about the titular first female President. Starring Frances McDormand as Ferraro, Steve Carrell as Sam Nunn, Steven Van Zandt as John Zaccaro, Timothee Chalament as John Zaccaro Jr., Jordon Peele as Jesse Jackson, Topher Grace as Donald Rumsfeld and John Turturro as Al D’Amato this film looks set to redress the balance on then Ferraro legacy...”
 
GRAVE IMPLICATIONS?

1977-1981: Frank Church (Democratic)
'76 (with Gary Hart) def. Ronald Reagan (Republican)
1981-1984: Bill Clements (Republican)
'80 (with Orrin Hatch) def. Frank Church (Democratic), Gary Hart (Independent), Larry McDonald (Patriot)
1984-1985: Bill Clements (Independent)
1985-1986: Ted Kennedy (Democratic)
'84 (with Cliff Finch) def. Bob Dornan (Republican), Bill Clements (Independent)
'86 assassinated by rogue members of the LaRouche Youth Movement
1986-1988: Cliff Finch (Democratic)
'88 died of heart attack during argument with Speaker Dick Cheney, who also died of heart attack during same argument
1988-1989: Tony Coelho (Democratic)
1989-1993: Bo Gritz (Republican)
'88 (with Clay Smothers) def. Ed Markey (Democratic), Ed Koch (Independent)
1993-1994: Jerry Brown (Democratic)
'93 (with Richard Fisher) def. Bo Gritz (Republican), John McCain III (Independent)
1994-1994: Jerry Brown (Independent)
1994-2001: Jerry Brown (Green, endorsed by Democratic)
'96 (with Mickey Leland) def. John Engler (Republican), Gary Hart (Independent Democratic/Hart for America), H. Ross Perot (United We Stand)
2001-: Jim Webb (Republican)
'00 (with Lynne Cheney) def. Howard Dean (Democratic-Green), Ralph Nader (Grassroots)

  • Frank Church dedicates his Presidency, at least at first, to disassembling the military-intelligence-industrial complex, and the military-intelligence-industrial complex quietly dedicates its efforts to disassembling Frank Church's Presidency. Church has to pivot anyway - tensions with the Soviets after the death of Brezhnev (new Soviet leaders expect Church to fold because he can't trust his own army not to try to coup him), oil prices, and the culture war - but his Presidency is remembered as a do-nothing administration. Gary Hart isn't interested in being part of a do-nothing administration, but the American people aren't interested in him either - they choose Bill Clements, on the grounds that even though he's kind of an asshole he probably knows how to get things done.
  • But outside the context of getting rid of Church, the Republican base sours on Clements - effective, sure, but oil prices stay high, unemployment skyrockets under the stresses of shock therapy, and Clements is aggressively uninterested in the culture war. Maybe a more personable President could have finessed that - but Clements fails to convince anyone he cares about anything, and gets himself replaced by someone who undeniably does. But Tailgunner Bob alienates liberal Republicans something fierce, and Ted Kennedy decides it's his own moment.
  • The Kennedy Finch Coelho administration scarcely needs summary, except that Kennedy's and Finch's close support of a new, integrated, South African government including Chris Hani as Deputy President and Joe Slovo as Minister of Defence made a lot of Americans very angry. You can read their underlying motives any way you like, I ain't saying anything.
  • Brown was elected by a party which saw his "era of limits" as the proper way to head off the fears of a "spendthrift" Markey administration that sank his bid. However, Brown had a number of differences of policy with his party - most notably, how much those limits pertained to financing versus real resources. The Democrats looked at themselves and decided not to Bob Dornan him, although they conceded that Gary Hart probably wasn't going to listen.
 
No More Consensus,No More Concent 2.0 or Be Careful What You Wish For Mister Hitchens

This isn’t quite a list per se,more an ASB experiment on how 2010 Parliament would have looked like if almost every one of the MPs involved in the Expenses Scandal of 2009/their successors got voted and the electorate turned against the main three and voted for the other candidates. (in the case of Northern Ireland I only included Sinn Fein and DUP as the major parties to vote against)

I excluded Chris Mullin due to not really being involved in the scandal,SNP,Plaid Cymru and SDLP MPs due to it being too complicated for me and Frank Field due to his seat being contested in 2010 only by two people,all from the other two major parties.

Hoo boy.

2007-2010 Gordon Brown [Labour Majority,Labour Minority]
2010: Lord Malcolm Pearson-UKIP [162],Gordon Brown*-Labour [153],David Cameron*-Conservative [96],Nick Griffin-BNP [87],Alex Salmond-SNP [37],Nick Clegg*-Liberal Democrat [37],Ieuan Wyn Jones-Plaid Cymru [26],Caroline Lucas-Green [17],various Independents [10],Margaret Ritchie-SDLP [6],Reg Empey-UCU-NF [5],various Independent Unionists [3],Robin Tilbrook-English Democrat [2],Peter Robinson*-DUP [2],Selma Yaqoob-Respect [1],Peter Ford-Alliance [1],Jim Allister-TUV [1],Rob Wheway-Liberal [1],Alan Craig-CPA [1],Marianne Overton-Lincolnshire Independent [1],Mick Barton-Mansfield Independents [1]

2010-2010 Harriet Harman [Labour Minority]

2010-xxxx Lord Malcolm Pearson [UKIP Minority]


A few things to note:

-BNP‘s near 88 seats becomes even dreadful once you realize that a lot of the MPs they unseated in this scenario were Jewish so,uh,yeah.

Really unfortunate.

-Labour lost almost all its seats in Wales and has done slightly better in Scotland.

-the only major Cabinet figures who haven’t lost their seats and aren’t Lords besides Harman are Ed,Jowell,Hain,Ben Bradshaw,MacFadden,Sadiq and Primarolo.


Same with the other side: Grieve is the highest surviving Shadow Cabinet Minister,followed by May,Greg Clark,Hunt, Hammond, Shapps,Mark Francois,Afriyie and Annabel Goldie.

The Lib Dems have lost most of the big names,but they haven’t suffered as much as the big two.

-Norn is just chaos.

I’m not gonna do anything really with it,I just spent a lot of time analyzing this scenario and idk,felt like posting this.

I swear I gonna make something more,oh,purposeful soon. Maybe finally do that Năstase Wins TL or any other Romanian AH projects I’ve been postponing forever because life problems.
 
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1974-1976: Takeo Miki (Jiyū-Minshutō)
1976 (Minority) def. Tomomi Narita (Nippon Shakai-Tō), Yoshikatsu Takeiri (Kōmeitō), Ikkō Kasuga (Minshu Shakai-tō), Kenji Miyamoto (Nihon Kyōsan-tō), Yōhei Kōno (Shin-Jiyū-Kurabu)
1976: Masayoshi Ōhira (Jiyū-Minshutō Minority)†
1976-1979: Takeo Fukuda (Jiyū-Minshutō)

1979 (Minority) def. Saburō Eda (Kaishintō), Ichio Asukata (Nippon Shakai-Tō), Yoshikatsu Takeiri (Kōmeitō), Tetsuzo Fuwa (Nihon Kyōsan-tō), Ikkō Kasuga (Minshu Shakai-tō)
1979-1982: Yasuhiro Nakasone (Jiyū-Minshutō)
1980 (Majority) def. Ichio Asukata (Nippon Shakai-Tō), Hideo Den (Kaishintō), Yoshikatsu Takeiri (Kōmeitō), Tetsuzo Fuwa (Nihon Kyōsan-tō), Ikkō Kasuga (Minshu Shakai-tō)
1982-1983: Masayoshi Ito (Jiyū-Minshutō Majority)
1983: Zenko Suzuki (Jiyū-Minshutō Majority)

1983-1987: Noboru Takeshita (Jiyū-Minshutō)
1984 (Majority) def. Yōhei Kōno (Kaishintō), Tetsu Ueda (Nippon Shakai-Tō), Tetsuzo Fuwa (Nihon Kyōsan-tō), Kōshirō Ishida (Kōyukai)
1987-: Sōsuke Uno (Jiyū-Minshutō Majority)
1988-1989: Kiichi Miyazawa (Jiyū-Minshutō Minority)

1989-: Toshiki Kaifu (Kaishintō)
1989 (Coalition with Nippon Shakai-Tō) def. Kiichi Miyazawa (Jiyū-Minshutō), Takako Doi (Nippon Shakai-Tō), Tsutomu Hata (Taiyōtō), Tetsuzo Fuwa (Nihon Kyōsan-tō), Kōshirō Ishida (Kōyukai)

Reform;

The word that has existed on the lips of many a Japanese Prime Minister over the past decade, but never actually been implemented until maybe, now.

Much of this comes back Prime Minister Takeo Miki, a member of Banchō Seisaku Kenkyūjo faction who tried to reform Japan and the Liberal Democratic Party in the aftermath of the Lockheed Scandal were scuppered by the party and the minority government he gained. Not long afterwards the emerging Socialists Citizens League, formed under Saburō Eda would merge with several other disparate Progressive and Centrist parties and create the ‘Kaishintō’ or Reformist Party, with Saburō Eda’s barnstorming Campaign across Japan seeming incredibly inspiring, Miki and much of the Banchō Seisaku Kenkyūjo too.

Amongst them would be a one Toshiki Kaifu, a Moderate Reformist his joining of the Centrist Liberal Socialist Kaishintō party seemed like a prelude to what would come in Japanese politics, but at the time people ignored it. Indeed the sudden death of Eda and his kind of naff replacement allowed Ichio Asukata and the Socialist Party to make some gains over the Kaishintō’s. But already the wind was blowing in there direction.

The initial popularity of Nakasone withered as his economic policies proved incredibly unpopular with the Japanese public as he tried to dismantle the Corporatist state. He would be followed by a Reformist who unable to get policies past his own party, resigned and a gaffe prone mainstream Prime Minister who would resign after poor polling. All the while, the Kashintō would gain ground over the Socialist, with additional mergers and politicians defecting to it. Noboru Takeshita was considered a modernising Reformist who didn’t rock the boat too much, indeed he also had his own faction that could easily bully others into voting for his policies.

Winning a majority and seeing economic good times, he seemed he would last awhile, before allegations of insider trading and the recruit scandal sunk him and his faction. A Pandora’s box of corruption, sleaze and the economy dipping back into recession would ensue, with Japan’s leader’s rudderless as disgruntled Takeshita formed there own political party. It was no surprise when under Kiichi Miyazawa’s limp campaigning style that a hung parliament would emerge.

But Toshiki Kaifu was quick, reaching his hand out to the increasingly moderate and Social Democratic Socialist Party to form a coalition. Indeed Kaifu’s ‘Constitutional Coalition’ seems like it could be the kind of Centre Left grouping that Japan needs to greeted the Twenty First Century.
 
1960-1980: Verne Gagne (American Communist Party-Kefauverist)
1980-1984: Verne Gagne (Columbia)
1980: Vince McMahon (New Era),Jim Crockett Jr. (Grange),Jerry Jarrett (Monarchist)
1984-1996:
Vince McMahon (New Era)
1984: Jim Crockett Jr. (Grange),Jerry Jarrett (Monarchist),Verne Gagne(Columbia)
1988: Jim Crockett Jr. (Grange),Jerry Jarrett (Monarchist)
1992: Jim Herd (For The Farmers!),Jerry Jarrett (American Monarchy Now!),Jim Cornette (Democratic Socialist),Herb Abrams(Herb Abram's Columbia)

1994: Virgil Rhodes (American Dream),Paul Heyman (Working Families),Jim Cornette (Democratic Socialist),Paul Alperstein(America The Strong)
1995-1999:
Eric Bischoff (New World Order)
1995: Vince McMahon (New Era),Paul Heyman(Working Families),Jim Cornette (Democratic Socialist),Paul Alperstein(America The Strong)
1999-2001: Vince McMahon (Supreme Vision)
1999: Eric Bischoff (New World Order),Paul Heyman (Working Families),Jim Cornette (Rural Respect)
The 2001 bombings; Supreme Vision merges with NWO and WF
2001-2022: Vince McMahon (American)

2001: Kevin Harrington(Stars and Stripes),Jim Cornette (Rural Respect),Paul Alperstein (BDMTWGA)
2006: Jeff Jarrett/Dixie Carter (Anti-McMahon)
2010: Eric Bischoff/Terry Eugene Bollea (Anti-McMahon)
2012: Eric Bischoff/Terry Eugene Bollea (Anti-McMahon)
2014:
Dixie Carter (Anti-McMahon)
2018: Tony Khan (Truth and Justice),Billy Corgan(New Columbia)
2021: Tony Khan (Truth and Justice),Billy Corgan(New Columbia)

2022-: Stephanie McMahon (American)
 
Affrighted by the shadow of Absolutism and Abolitionism that brooded over Washington, the men of the South flew to arms; but three years of "struggling" have singularly modified their opinions; and I have been pained and astonished to find how many are willing to glide unhesitatingly into a dictatorship, a military despotism, — even into a state of colonial dependence, with gradual emancipation as a condition of foreign intervention and protection.
— Augusta Jane Evans in a letter addressed to Jabez L. M. Curry, c. January 27, 1864

He is already perhaps among the paltry crowd. He walks among them and they see him not, he obeys many of them whom he could or should command, he is powerless under them, he would be efficient over them, and successful and great. His spirit quickens among the dull and plodding multitude but inert in body his material progress is checked because he has not yet been found out.

Was not Caesar Caesar at twenty? and not yet known for what he was as such but to himself until forty.

— from Camille Armand Jules Marie de Polignac's diary, c. June 13, 1862

POLIGNACATO

Presidents of the Confederate States of America

1860 - 1862: John A. Quitman (Independent)
1861 (with Robert M. T. Hunter) def. unopposed
1862 - 1868: Robert M. T. Hunter (Independent)
1868 - 1872: Gustave Toutant-Beauregard ("Reform" Independent)
1867 (with Henry A. Wise) def. John C. Breckinridge / Raphael Semmes ("Jeffersonian" Independent), Robert Rhett / Louis T. Wigfall ("Fire-Eater" | "Quitmanite" Independent)
1872 - 1873: Henry A. Wise ("Reform" Independent)
1873 - 1874: Henry A. Wise (Nationalist)
1874 - 1880: Wade Hampton III (Democratic)
1873 (with Albert G. Brown) def. Alexander Stephens / Isham G. Harris (Nationalist)
1880 - 1882: James Longstreet (Nationalist)
1879 (with Augustus H. Garland) def. William P. Miles / John W. Stevenson (Democratic)
1882 - 1883: James Longstreet (National Union)
1883 - 1886: Charles Jacques Villeré (National Union)
1886 - 1888: Camille Armand Jules Marie de Polignac (National Union)
1885 (with Isham G. Harris) def. unopposed

Commanders-in-Chief of the Army of the Confederate Constitution

1882 - 1885: Wade Hampton III ("Fire-Eater" | Constitutionalist)
1885: Jubal Early ("Fire-Eater" | Constitutionalist)
1885 - 1886: Joseph Wheeler (Constitutionalist)

1882 - 1886: First Southron Civil War | War of the Manumission
- National Union Government / Southron Army backed by Second French Empire (1884 - 1886) and Second Mexican Empire (1884 - 1886)
- Army of the Confederate Constitution backed by British Empire (1884 - 1886)
- First Red Strings (Lowry Gang, Kirk's Raiders, Gullah Republic, etc.)
Nationalist victory, New Orleans Peace Convention; Pacification of the Lumbee, firm alignment of Atlanta with Paris and adoption of the Second Constitution


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Emperors of Dixie

1888 - 1913: Camille (de Polignac)
1913 - 1918: Edmund (de Polignac)

Chancellors of Dixie

...
1910 - 1915: Albert S. Burleson (National Union)
1915 - 1918: LeRoy Percy (National Union) [de facto triumvirate with Chief of Staff Charles Pelot Summerall and Secretary of War Josephus Daniels]
1918: Nathan Bedford Forrest II (National Salvation Committee)
1918: William Kitchin (Independent)

1918: Blue Bonnet Revolution
- Imperial Government / Southron Army
- National Salvation Committee and aligned militias
- Second Red Strings (Free State of Cuba, Southern Laborers' Front, Toussaint League, Texas City Commune, etc.), backed by the United States of America
Revolutionary victory; Nathan Bedford Forrest II dislodged by Congress and loyalist forces led by William & Claude Kitchin, collapse of the Empire of Dixie and beginning of the Southron Crisis


It is 1888. Peace has settled upon the South; a mere few years ago, that notion would have been unthinkable, as Southron regulars fought against were sent to support the newly-crowned Agustin III against the Yankee-backed generals' conspiracy, then set upon each other, brother against brother, as ex-President Hampton led an army against President Longstreet for signing the Manumission Amendment, necessary for the South's development and continued Anglo-French support. Both were felled ignominously — Longstreet by a stick of dynamite and Hampton by the rope, courtesy of a Constitutionalist spy and the colored brigands of Robert Smalls II respectively. The remnants of the federal government, led by Colonel Villeré, saw fit to wipe out the fire-eaters with utmost impunity.

All of that lies in the past. An exuberant crowd, flanked by veterans and Secret Service agents, cheers as the Confederacy is abolished, and Prince-President de Polignac is made Emperor. With the states' rights bushwhackers, Lumbee redlegs and race traitors pacified, the South is one and indivisible. Much power by that point had been accumulated in de Polignac's hands. The Vice Presidency, already moribund even under Hampton, was subsumed by the Presidency of the Senate, the aged and increasingly subservient Colonel Villeré set the standard for subsequent Speakers of the House, and state governors — with more hard-bodied de Polignac loyalists than ever — were keen to follow the terms of the new Constitution.

In decades that would follow, the Emperor and his Chancellors would look inward — quelling remaining revolts in Cuba and along the Mason-Dixon border, inviting French and British instructors to modernize the Southron military, and pursuing vast internal improvements to industrialize the South and reduce its dependency on cotton, giving thousands of prisoners and peons an opportunity to better themselves and their country.

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It is 1918. War had fallen upon the South once more, and this time its back has been irrepairably broken, ultimately not by Yankee bayonets but by popular revolt and secession. There was little foreboding of a revolution five years ago; Camille was succeeded by the 40 year old Prince Edmund, a respected officer and a staunch Southron in manner and beliefs, and the position of Chancellor regained some importance as the young Emperor began to depend more on Congress. Popular appeal further increased with the 1911 Montgomery Expo, a celebration of fifty years of Southron independence. Tension bubbled underneath as peons, workers and ordinary farmers became increasingly prone to rioting, but the Empire's well-being nevertheless was on the rise; its military, too, appeared be strong when the Emperor and Atlanta declared their support for Vienna.

Out of all the Concord powers, the Empire of the South was the first to fall. The Yankees easily took Kentucky and northern Virginia; as the armies of France, Prussia and Austria dug in, the Imperial government found that it had increasingly few soldiers, and little money, to effectively combat both revolutionaries in Cuba and the United States Army. Burleson's reactionary attitudes and incompetence saw him swiftly replaced with LeRoy Percy, but his nomination did little to stem the Emperor's increasing conflict with both the military and Congress. The Blue Bonnet Revolution, as it would come to be known, would be set off by a coup attempt by Nathan Bedford Forrest II, in itself precipitated by allegations of a palace coup and Edmund de Polignac refusing a peace deal.

Gunshots are heard far away as the crowd stands silent, watching as Provisional Chancellor William Kitchin formally reads out His Majesty's declaration of abdication. The South is struggling to keep itself united, as Forrest's theocratic dragoons and bands of ex-peons battle in the ravaged countryside. Several state governors, disenchanted with the Southern project, have deemed it fit to negotiate separate peace treaties with the United States, with many falling under the Yankee's direct influence. Few can tell what lies ahead for the people of the South.
 
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POLIGNACATO
Must say excellent stuff, the write up captured the tone of such an event rather well.

I have to say, always enjoy a story with the South collapsing under a revolution, seems the logic outcome of such a depraved and hideous system being allowed to continue existing for extended period of time.
 
One of the most creative CSA lists I’ve seen, this is really well done.

aww, thanks

Must say excellent stuff, the write up captured the tone of such an event rather well.

I have to say, always enjoy a story with the South collapsing under a revolution, seems the logic outcome of such a depraved and hideous system being allowed to continue existing for extended period of time.

Honestly, even putting the Confederacy's economy and specific raison d'être aside, there are quite a lot of red flags, even in its very Constitution, suggesting that it would have become very centralized and very authoritarian had it secured its independence.
 
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