The Thirty-Sixth HoS List Challenge

[Yokai Man]

Is this a Gil Scott-Heron reference?

Yes.

 

[Kerguelen]

AMERICAS FIRST


List of Presidents of Argentine Republic​

2023-2027: Javier Milei/ Victoria Villarruel (Libertarian)
def. Sergio Massa/ Agustín Rossi (Renewal Front), Patricia Bullrich/ Luis Petri (Proposal), Juan Schiaretti/ Florencio Randazzo (Justicialist), Myriam Bregman/ Nicolás del Caño (Socialist Workers')

position abolished - List of Supreme Governors of the Argentine Commonwealth​

2027-2027: Javier Milei (Libertarian)

2027-2031: Axel Kicillof (Justicialist, with Democratic and Independence support)

2031-2035: Mario Alberto Ishii (Justicialist, with Democratic and Republican support)

2035-2039: Juan Manuel Urtubey (Justicialist, with Republican, Truth and Justice, and J.O.Y. support)

2039-2041: Nathalia González Seligra (Socialist Workers') *

2041-pres: Sergio "Kun" Agüero (Justicialist)

List of Presidents of the United States of America​

2021-2025: Joe Biden/Kamala Harris (Democratic)
2020 def: Donald Trump/Mike Pence (Republican)

2025-2027: Donald Trump/ Jenniffer González-Colón (Republican) *
2024 def: Joe Biden/ Kamala Harris (Democratic), Robert F. Kennedy Jr./ Bill Gertz (Truth and Justice)

2027-2029: Jenniffer González-Colón/ Susan Collins (Republican)

2029-2031: Gavin Newsom/ Juan Grabois (Democratic) †
2028 def: Robert F. Kennedy Jr./ William Rodriguez (Truth and Justice), Jenniffer González-Colón/ Tim Scott (Republican), Melina Abdullah/ Nicolás del Caño (Socialist Workers')

2031-2037: Juan Grabois/ John Fetterman (Democratic)
2032 def: Francis Suarez/ Horacio Rodríguez Larreta (Center Union), Joy Villa/ David Chappelle (J.O.Y. Party), William Rodriguez/ various (Truth and Justice), Mónica Schlotthauer/ Victor Colorado (Socialist Workers'), Agustín Laje/ María Elvira Salazar (Republican)

2037-2041: Manuel Natal Albelo/ Agnes Littlebird (Reform America)
2036 def: John Fetterman/ Anna Paulina Luna (Citizens' Movement), Juan Grabois/ Summer Lee (Democratic), Laura Cano/ Valeria Irizarry (Socialist Workers')

2041-pres: Amaryllis Fox Kennedy/ Dianelys Lombardi (Justicialist)
2040 def: Manuel Natal Albelo/ Agnes Littlebird (Reform America)


* Impeached
† Assassinated


It has been fifteen years since the end of the Argentine Republic. Fifteen years since the fifty-second star was added to the American flag. Fifteen years since Javier Milei's mad plans of "dollarization", "Friedmanization", and "Americanization" resulted in what political scientists refer to as "the greatest Black Swan event of the 21st century". Despite President Trump's nativist rhetoric, he would quell political dissent in his own party and became a champion for Argentine statehood as a means to cement himself in the history books, ensuring he would not merely be remembered as the first American President to launch two failed coups.

Subsequent years would see further reforms such as the national implementation of Argentina's "two round" electoral system, expansions to welfare and high-speed public services, and legislation to massively curtail the powers of the United States Senate. While Argentine statehood is the norm and unlikely to be reversed, Trump and Milei are remembered as desperate demagogues who sought to revive their decaying regimes by tying them together in an impossible Gordian knot.

Then after them came González-Colón, the forgettable placeholder who tried to bring a sense of normalcy to a strange situation, moreso remembered for being the first woman president. Then came Newsom, the sleazy smiler with the slicked-back hair, who nonetheless prevented the collapse of the United States through his bold reforms, only to be shot to death by a divorced car dealer-turned-right wing conspiracy theorist. Then was Grabois, his more radical and loud-mouthed successor, who brought millions out of poverty and put the first American on Mars, even as the people grew weary with his endless battles with Congress. And then Natal, the "handsome reformer" whose only real reforms seemed to be adding an exercise bike and Olympic swimming pool to the Oval Office.

Now comes Amaryllis Fox Kennedy, the former CIA officer and Supreme Governor of East Polynesia, who served as a puppetmaster for her father-in-law's perineal Presidential campaigns to establish a controlled opposition for the national security state. She has overseen broad reforms to bolster America's "economic defense" through the expansion of state-controlled unions, corporations, and social media platforms. Claiming to be neither left nor right but a pioneer of the future, critics have described her as a "techno-fascist" while her supporters have praised her as a true heir to Peron, Kennedy, Washington, Muñoz Marín, or any other politician they look upon fondly.

While the rest of the world looks on in horror at the brutal occupation of Haiti, the bloody massacres on the Bolivian border, the disappearance of González Seligra and countless other political opponents, Fox Kennedy continues to earn to love of her supporters as they leave behind the old globalists and put the "Americas First".

 

[Walpurgisnacht]

Four days to go for entries!

 

[Lilitou]

Second As Farce​

2019-2022: Boris Johnson (Conservatives)
2019 (Majority) def: Jeremy Corbyn (Labour), Nicola Sturgeon (SNP), Jo Swinson (Liberal Democrats), Adam Price (Plaid Cymru), Jonathan Bartley & Siân Berry (Greens)
2022-2022: Liz Truss (Conservatives)
2022-2024: Rishi Sunak (Conservatives)
2024-2030: Keir Starmer (Labour)
2024 (Majority) def: Rishi Sunak (Conservatives), Ed Davey (Liberal Democrats), Humza Yousaf (SNP), Rhun ap Iorwerth (Plaid Cymru), Carla Denyer & Adrian Ramsay (Greens), Jeremy Corbyn (Peace and Justice)
2028 (Minority) def: Kemi Badenoch (Conservatives), Ed Davey (Liberal Democrats), Carla Denyer & Adrian Ramsay (Greens), Angus Robertson (SNP), Rhun ap Iorwerth (Plaid Cymru)
2030-2032: Wes Streeting (Labour)
2032-2042: Tom Harwood (Conservatives)
2032 (Majority) def: Wes Streeting (Labour), Amelia Womack & Zac Larkham (Greens), Christine Jardine (Liberal Democrats), Angus Roberston (SNP), Lee Anderson (Homeland), Katy Loudon (Scottish Future), Liz Saville Roberts (Plaid Cymru)
2037 (Majority) def: Kira Lewis (Labour), Amelia Womack & Zac Larkham (Greens), Eleanor Kelly (Liberal Democrats), Angus Roberston (SNP), Katy Loudon (Scottish Future), Lee Anderson (Homeland), Liz Saville Roberts (Plaid Cymru)
2041 (Minority with D3 confidence and supply) def: Kira Lewis (Labour), Zac Larkham & Zoë Garbett (Greens), Eleanor Kelly (Liberal Democrats), collective leadership (D3), Angus Roberston (SNP), Liz Saville Roberts (Plaid Cymru), Katy Loudon (Scottish Future)
2042 de-digitalisation referendum: Yes 48%, No 52%
2042-0000: Seb Payne (Conservatives)

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The teacher droned on, and on, and on. They blinked twice, and the educator's visage came to a stop before their eyes. Finally, Aadhya thought to themselves, rolling their eyes from side to side as the vision in front of them morphed from educator to entertainer.

They admired the new figure, who began to speak to them about the latest drama on the mindscape. Supposedly, this famous caster called X8 had insulted Hayden Anhedönia (some old zoomtard that Aadhya's mum talked about before) and has just put out a poorly-received apology cast blaming it on stress. Delicious.

Aadhya absorbed the drama, but their moment's peace was quickly disturbed by a hectic knock on the door. The door creaked open as Aadhya's mum peered in. "Adiepie", she said, "how're you getting on with your work?"

Aadhya visibly cringed and audibly groaned. The door closed a little as Aadhya's mum inched in to the messy room.

"That bad?" their mum asked.

Aadhya nodded in defeat. Their mum scooped them up in a high-pressure hug. After a few minutes, their mum tapped a barely noticeable strip of plastic on the side of their head and joined Aadhya's groupcast.

"Ah", she said, flicking through various images which flashed in front both their eyes. "The mid-21st century political history module; don't worry Ads, a lot of people struggle with this one!"

Aadhya's mum tapped the side of her head again and turned to face Aadhya.

"The easiest way to remember is to split it; you've got the Tumultuous Twenties, the Trying Thirties and the Flying Forties."

A new vision appeared as mum spoke. Aadhya sat up from their slump. The vision was of lots of blue figurines playing musical chairs, while a smaller number of red figurines laugh, only for the music to stop, the red figurines to sit down, and the same to happen to them.

"Now, you should have already covered British isolationism in the last module, but the important thing to know here is that before Mr Sunak was big in Silicon Valley, he was actually prime minister! Oh, and you can also throw in to your essay how Truss actually was prime minister! A lot of your classmates are going to write as if she was the 'best prime minister we never had', so that will really put you ahead."

Aadhya's mum flicked to the next image. The red figurines were now standing on a ship, throwing other red figurines with berets out to sea while the ship takes on more and more water.

"Starmer and Streeting are important to remember as their inaction is what helped allow smaller parties to grow, and eventually force the reform of the political system" she said. "This meant parties like Homeland could grow, and then...."

The vision morphed into young blue figurine whipping the other blue figurines into shape, as some purple figurines look on. Eventually, the blue figurines take control of the sinking ship and plug a few holes, while forcing grey figurines on lifeboats to turn back.

"Harwood is able to take control of the remaining Conservative party and the Conservatives do - as you should remember from the other modules, my love - what they always do, and adapt. 'Yes to minorities, no to climate refugees' is the easy way to sum it up."

The next image saw some green and turquoise figurines marching in the street with banners that read "climate crisis" and "de-digitalisation" respectively. A blue figurine shakes hands with a turquoise figurine, only to later jump off the ship.

"But Harwood was never able to contend with the new social movements of the late 30s and early 40s, and his deal with the de-digitisation crowd... well; look around honey, the digitalisation wasn't de-ed!"

Eventually, another blue figurine appears. This one is wearing a suit, and steers the ship after the last blue figurine jumped off.

"And that brings us to Payne, who was a respected elder statesman who took over from Harwood..."

 

[Warthog]

Chairs of the High Council of the African Federation

After two weeks of deliberations, the Virunga peace conference took on a life of its own. With the defeat of the mercenaries and their allies, and Thatcher safely ensconced in the Hague, the West African leaders turned their minds to the post-war order. Conference chair, retired South African Deputy Chief Justice Tembeka Ngcukaitobi, had insisted from the beginning on allowing observers from any African government that wanted to send them. As the West African delegates not only talked about a possible federation, but began working out details, delegates from other governments began getting more and more interested. Early on a Saturday morning, Ethiopian observer Abeba Ghebremichael, who had spent most of the night in a virtual cabinet meeting, took a last shot of coffee, rose to address the plenary, and astonished the West Africans by saying simply "We want in." It took another two years of negotiations, multiple plebiscites, two military coups in Gabon, three in Chad, and an uprising in eSwatini, but on 25 May 2046, the African Federation was born.

The countries that formed the Federation had many different electoral systems, some with directly-elected Presidents, others whose heads of government were elected by the legislature - and of course eSwatini, where no-one had ever voted for a head of state or government. Several countries that were ruled by interim or coalition governments argued that the typical "democratic" approach, where only leaders selected by a winning presidential candidate or political party take office in government was both wasteful of talent, and unnecessarily confrontational. This found support even among traditional parliamentary republics, as the "all talents" approach in negotiations had been bearing fruit. In the end, a one person one vote system was agreed to, with the top seven candidates serving together as the High Council (candidates also had to pass a threshold percentage in each of the six Regions of the Federation), and the candidate with the most votes serving as Chair of the High Council. the Chair was to be head of state, but in the Council, merely first among equals.

2046-2048 Tembeka Ngcukaitobi (interim)
It had become clear even in the first year of negotiations that an interim structure would be needed to properly establish Federal institutions, and prepare the way for continental elections. The negotiators turned to a number of elder statespersons and jurists to form the Interim High Council, and Ngcukaitobi was the obvious choice as chair. In addition to establishing the Federal Electoral Commission, Federal Courts and numerous other structures, the interim High Council commenced the construction of the new federal captial, Kasindi-Ishango, on the shore of Lake Kivu and the Congo-Rwanda border, as well as Transcontinental One, the first federal rail and road corridor, from Pointe Noire via Kasindi-Ishango to Mombasa.

2048-2051 Carmen Pereira (Cabo Verde)
Whilst the full membership of the first elected High Council was a matter of much prediction and speculation during the election campaign, there was never any doubt who would chair High Council. The victor of the war, the leader of the West African Volunteer Field Force, the soldier who captured Mark Thatcher? The woman who avenged her father's death in the Hague, not in blood? She was popular across the continent and beyond.

Her High Council's first two years built on the formidable work done by Ngcukaitobi and his team, with new Federal institutions like the Environmental Commission and the Human and Social Rights Commission, and integrated the Federal armed forces, the Army of All Africa. The Federal government completed Transcontinental One and work had started on Transcontinental Two, from Cape Town to Djibouti, when the unthinkable happened. In early 2050, the umpteenth crisis in the Middle East spiralled into the outbreak of World War III, and South Yemen’s accession talks with Africa catapulted the continent straight into the war.

2051-2054 Carmen Pereira (as Head of the War Council) and Aisha Khoza (as Head of the Domestic Affairs Council)
The Army of All Africa was still finding its feet as a single organization when war broke out. For nearly a year, Pereira shuttled thrice a day between the High Council in Kasindi-Ishango and the Joint Chiefs in Lower Mutwanga, but with the fall of Dodoma in February 2051, it was clear to her than Africa needed a war leader.

Pereira relieved Field Marshall Odekanye, and took direct charge of the war, heading a War Council of Generals and liaison officers of the guerrilla resistance in Somaliland, Egypt, Tanzania, Senegal, and the Congo. The combined efforts of the mountain guerillas, the conventional army, and the electromagnetic pulse weapons of the nascent African space institute broke the back of the invasion at Rusumo Falls in January 2053. Pereira would direct Africa through the war for a further two years, but the continent was never existential threatened again.

During this time, matters unconnected with the war were the responsibility of a rump Council, headed by Aisha Khoza. The South African former businesswoman directed her considerable management acumen and empathy to quality of life and quality of environment issues for the continent, and it was her shoulders that the survival and growth of Federal infrastructure and institutions depended upon.

2054-2059 Fatoumata Keita (Mali)
With the Bougainville Conference, the war ended, and Africa could return to peacetime governance, building, and rebuilding. Delayed elections for a new High Council were held, and Pereira retired to São Vicente.

The elected councilors were mainly a mixture of pre-war political leaders and diplomats, such as Abeba Ghebremichael, and war leaders. Keita, who was elected Chair, was a Malian soldier who had served with Pereira in the West African Volunteer Field Force and later as the senior general of the West Africa Commanded in the Army of All Africa, before her transfer to command the North Rift Valley Front during the war. Her greatest fame came from the liberation of Nairobi and capture of Field Marshall Chelmsford in January 2054.

Most of Keita's term was naturally reconstruction, as well as the completion of pre-war projects like Transcontinental Two, but there were also new initiatives, key among them the eradication of malaria, and the establishment of the Pan African Space Institute. When she retired home to Yanfolila, Keita left behind a continent whose life expectancy had jumped up to 75 and under five mortality dropped down to 12, as well as African colonies on Ganymede and Mars.

2059-2063 Benjamin Moyale (Kenya)
Ben Moyale was not a soldier, as such - they had only basic military training, as was required for civilian administrators within the Army of All Africa. A highly capable administrator, Moyale served in the Army of All Africa as Comptroller of Technical Integration, responsible for such diverse issues as artillery calibre standardisation and cybersecurity integration, before Pereira selected them as Secretary of the War Council. After the war, they entered politics and were elected as Senator for Kenya in the 2054 election. A solid and reliable voice in the Pan African Parliament, they ran for Council in 2059 and narrowly got the highest votes.

There was a dichotomy to Moyale's term: the older councilors, who had held office during the war (and many of them before that) were focused more on consolidating and growing the Federation, completing Transcontinental Three (Port Sudan to Dakar) and Four (Pointe Noire to Tunis) and the Mount Elgon space elevator. On the other hand, there were the youthful councilors, who had generally come into politics after the war, and were referred to as the Vijana (youth in Swahili). Led by the Deputy Chair, the Vijana were far more concerned with social change, leading initiatives such as derecognition of gender classification in government records and equity at federal level for different types of family relationships, marriages and partnerships.

It was not a conflict as such, more a divergence of focus: the Vijana did not oppose the infrastructure and political projects, nor did the Warhorses (as they youngsters called the older councilors) oppose the social changes (aside from two marriage traditionalists), but rather that each group of councilors tended to ignore the other as far as possible. Moyale, while technically a warhorse, got on well with most of the other councilors, and so spent their term trying to keep the councilors listening to each other, and the stress took an increasing toll on their health. A few months into their third year as Chair, Moyale suffered a stroke and died, during a meeting with the Joint Chiefs at Lower Mutwanga.

2063-2064 Kayla Nyikayaramba (Zimbabwe)
With Moyale's passing, the generation of war leaders came to an end. Kayla Nyikayaramba had been only 22 when the war broke out, and lived through it as a pharmacist in the relative peace and safety of inland Zimbabwe. In the second post war election, they had readily captured the youth vote, coming first in Southern, Northeastern and Extraterrestrial Regions, and second to Moyale in East and Central Regions, giving them the Deputy Chair's position on the Council. Moyale had been happy to throw their weight behind several of Nyikayaramba's social initiatives, as well as the establishment of the African colony on Proteus.

Nyikayaramba completed their Council term as Chair, before declining nomination for re-election, instead leaving politics, training for space, and doing pharmaco-medical research the rest of her life on Proteus.

2064- Rachel Bruktawit Elias (Ganymede)
The child of platinum singer Betty G, Rachel was one of the first generation of Ethiopians to use matronymic names alongside their patronymic - or as we now say, both parenymic names. After the war, during which they worked in infrastructure, Rachel retrained as a cosmoengineer at the Pan African Space Institute, and served on Mars, and later on Ganymede. It was during this period that they became involved in politics, as a campaigner for extra-terrestrial voting rights, and was elected as the first Senator for Ganymede in the Pan African Parliament. During their second term, Rachel led the successful campaign for establishing the Extraterrestrial Region as the seventh Region of the Federation, and in 2058 delivered a solid majority of the Region's votes for Nyikayaramba. When Nyikayaramba informed Rachel that they wanted to leave politics and return to science, Rachel met them on Mars, intending to persuade them to reconsider. By the end of the two days they spent together, it was Rachel themself who agreed to stand for High Council.

And so now the child of the home of African unity, but one who has lived their working life as an extraterrestrial, is sworn in to lead the High Council.

 

[Warthog]

Loving some very funny moments in this challenge

It had a funny taste, a little like metal, but my mother never liked me eating it, and you had to eat a lot to get the taste, so I don't remember it well.

Liam Gaines-Markle

One is easily amused by the author's assumption that he could be a viable presidential candidate, like father like son

All they did was change their drug dealers

Newsom, the sleazy smiler with the slicked-back hair

And that brings us to Payne, who was a respected elder statesman

terrible argument you had with Uncle Seb

 

[Walpurgisnacht]

For the record, I was not trying to imply that I or the narrator of that list know Sebastian Payne. It's a different Seb. I swear.

 

[Warthog]

For the record, I was not trying to imply that I or the narrator of that list know Sebastian Payne. It's a different Seb. I swear.

There can only be one!

 

[Walpurgisnacht]

Incidentally, there’s only 2 days left to sneak in an entry.

 

[SenatorChickpea]

The Rest is Wish Fulfillment​

Iskander considered the mortal carefully. It was, the great djinn thought, familiar with the ways of wishers. Since he had first been bound in the time of Babylon, since he had first been borne from the winds of fire to the squalor of this plane, their whims were always the same.

Mostly, always.

'I want to be clear,' it said. 'I offer you wealth, power, the very rewriting of reality to suit you, and you choose... this? Not even power for yourself, but for these... strangers to you?'

The mortal stood there bravely enough, though it may have been foolishness. The man's child slept peacefully in one corner of the room, the mortal planting himself in its centre.

'They're not strangers to me,' the man said. 'I feel like we understand each other very well.'

Iskander shrugged.

Normally, when mortals wished to put themselves on thrones the djinn took a certain glee in making them regret it.

This time it was inclined to grant the wish exactly as intended.

That should be more entertaining.

​

Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom

2022-2024 Rishi Sunak (Con.) [1]

2024 Liz Truss (Con.)

2024-2029 Sir Keir Starmer (Lab)
def. Ed Davey (Lib Dem), Humza Yousaf (SNP,) Liz Truss (Con.) [2]

2029-2032 Jacinda Ardern (Lab)
def. Layla Moran (Lib Dem,) Michael Sheen (Regional Kingdoms) [3]

2029 Rejoin Referendum

YES 70% No 30%

2032-2035 Layla Moran (Lib Dem)
def. David Miliband (Labour), Michael Sheen (Regional Kingdoms), Jason Kitcat (Blue Green Independents) [4]

2035- Sir Rory Stewart (British Democrat)
def. Boris Johnson (Con.), Nigel Farage (Reform,) Jeremy Corbyn (Anti-Zionist League of British Communists and Friends of Russia.)

[1] The strange resignation of Rishi Sunak is one of the great mysteries of British politics. Though rumours have long circulated that it involved some sort of incident with Star Wars cosplay in the Cabinet Office, not even his opponents ever seemed to have understood what happened. Combined with the speed with which Sunak departed for a senior job at Meta, his caucus was left scrambling to try and put together leadership campaigns. Staring down the barrel of an electoral wipe-out, the serious contenders stayed out. Observers were sure that it would be James Cleverley, but after an unfortunate open-mike incident in which he described the Conservative Party membership in richly anglo-saxon terms, Liz Truss arrived back in Downing Street.

Following her declaration that she was calling for an immediate election on a platform of cutting government spending by abolishing the NHS, abolishing child labour laws, fighting the 'woke' institutions of the British Kebab awards, and immediate war with Belgium, she was rushed to hospital after being badly beaten by her own backbenchers. They were too late to save the party however.


[2] Keir Starmer's premiership was generally regarded as a great success. This was unusual, since it was unclear what he actually did, and he certainly never explained it very well. However, it was generally agreed that he had been greatly successful in a general sort of way. The reforms to the NHS brought new money into the system without raising taxes, and successfully returned more power to regional authorities while increasing central oversight, eliminiating waiting times while making sure that more people could be seen. Starmer also passed the Welcoming Britain Act which successfully addressed peoples concerns about immigration while expanding citizenship to hard-working young foreigners who moved from the healthcare system- now staffed by hard-working young Britons- into opening up vibrant hospitality venues and cultural groups, even in small towns which were actually a lot more open to that than people might think. Starmer formed a successful partnership with Presidents Biden and Buttigieg. After the successful campaign to rejoin the EU, which, Starmer explained, had actually been the plan all along, he departed politics to take part in the prosecution of Victor Orbán.

[3] After Britain was rushed back into the EU thanks to the welcoming efforts of Prime Minister Schlein of Italy, President Attal of France, and King Rama I of Greater Albania, it was discovered that the Welcoming Britain Act had inadvertently created a loophole which restored British citizenship to citizens of Australia, New Zealand, Canada and some suburbs of Cape Town. The secretary-general of the UN was invited to lead the United Kindness of Great Britain's transition back into the EU.

One of the odder affairs of the parliamentary term was the complete reordering of the minor parties. The right had, astonishingly, completely failed to coalesce behind either the Conservatives or Reform, except in local body elections held just before the national votes. This always shocked people into conscientiously voting Labour or Lib Dem instead. The SNP, mired in scandal, formed a union with Plaid Cymru which agreed out of politeness, and also picked up former members of the Alliance and SDLP. Under the charismatic leadership of Michael Sheen, the Regional Kingsdoms party became a powerful voice for sensible devolution and standing up for the culture of the Celtic fringe in a way that was just powerful enough to be edgy but never felt too threatening either.

[4] Layla Moran had the unfortunate luck of coming to power in the Cursed Election of 2032, where all four parties- Labour, the Lib Dems, Regional Kingdoms, and the reasonable people of the Blue Green independents- got exactly the same number of seats. What followed was three years of heated agreement and violent compromise in the best traditions of democracy. However, in 2035 there was a concerning resurgence of the Far Right when Sebastian Payne won the Kensington by-election. The Tories had doubled their seats, and at that rate of exponential growth it was feared that they might return to power within a few decades. When it became known that the Tories had formed a strategic partnership with the Hard Far Left not to contest the seat of Islington North, many British voters worried about the state of their democracy.

Combined with the need for a PM who would work with Britain's international partners to oversee the democratic transitions and peacekeeping missions within Iran, Russia, Saudi Arabia, China, Palestine, Israel, Cyprus, Quebec and Argentina, Moran did a very noble thing and formed a cross-party alliance between the one man who could defeat the red/brown alliance and stabilise the world.

He announced his policy platform on his podcast.

 

[Warthog]

The Rest is Wish Fulfillment

Great fun

After the successful campaign to rejoin the EU, which, Starmer explained, had actually been the plan all along, he departed politics to take part in the prosecution of Victor Orbán.

Beautiful

restored British citizenship to ...some suburbs of Cape Town

You are very welcome to them

 

[SenatorChickpea]

You are very welcome to them

I'm not a Brit, but I like to think I've picked up a decent understanding of a certain sort of middle-class Englishness.

 

[Walpurgisnacht]

Last day for entries is here!

 

[Steve Brinson]

Ever Forward

2093-2095: Lorenzo de León (Socialist)
2095-2095: Gulnara Rashidova (Socialist)
2095-2097: Gulnara Rashidova (Movement for Constitutional Reform)
2097-2101: Bennett Victor (Alliance)

'96 (with Mateo Casares) def. Emilio Lopez (Socialist), Gulnara Rashidova (Movement for Constitutional Reform), J. A. Yamashiro (National Renaissance)​

2101-2102: Ujjwala Desai (Century XXII)

'00 (with Emanuel Beatty) def. Mia Thompson (Socialist), Bennett Victor (Alliance), David Torres (Constitutional Reform)​

2102-2109: Ujjwala Desai (Alliance)

'04 (with Marcela Quintero) def. Parker Bautista (Socialist), Oscar Fronteras (Nova)​

2109-2113: Jaia Joseph (Socialist)

'08 (with Dane Martinez) def. Marcela Quintero (Alliance)​

2113-2117: Peter Walsh (Alliance)

'12 (with Han Eun-jin) def. Jaia Joseph (Socialist), Sophie Cruz (Christian Representation Committee)​

2117-: Brian Valderrama (New Democratic)

'16 (with Lee Durakovic) def. Peter Walsh (Alliance), Azaria Gould (Christian Democratic)​

The Eighth Party System looks, in many ways, like a revision of the Fifth - two parties, more or less evenly matched, both committed to a sort of general economic and social stability consensus while tinkering around the edges to maintain their internal harmony. That does not mean, though, that a new Sixth Party System is on the horizon.

Firstly, the shocking resignation of de León may have elevated Rashidova, the most forthright and consistent advocate of parliamentarism - but that does not mean that it will happen. Ironically, she will have to push for constitutional reform as executive action - the Socialists hold a majority of neither house and many, if not most, Socialists would not support reform [1]. It is very plausible that, instead of winning support from the other side of the aisle, Rashidova will lose her own support from her party, letting the Alliance win the 2096 election (which would be their fifth victory in six elections, counting 2076's victory for the Democratic Action and Progressive Alliance).

With the reformists taken care of, let's look at National Renaissance. It seems clear that its supporters want to create a coalition with Alliance, and they actually have a decent chance of doing so - last time around they got a handful of Representatives to endorse, Hilary Zhou on the ticket, and a tacit pseudo-endorsement from Daniel Hernandez. If the party nominates a member of its left like Lopez or Hoque, NR might endorse; if it nominates a member of its right like Victor or García, the left wing of the party might take a chance on New Awakening revivalism.

But much as most Socialists want the support of the parliamentarists but not their agenda, left-Alliance members want exit as a way of increasing their power in factional struggles. Given the chance, they would rather support post-Progressives than entelechists; they just want to be in the driver's seat, like they were under Hernandez. Governor Desai, in particular, is the most prominent advocate for a switch - but she also has a history of opportunistically convincing political opponents in Ohio, in the Socialists and the formerly-powerful Ohio Cooperative Association, to support her efforts, before leaving them holding the bag. It is not hard to see her defeating an anemic Victor ticket and immediately switching back to the Alliance, a sort of mirror of Huisacaynism (or, even earlier, Davon Reid).

Where, then, will the end of the current system come from? It will not be because of inundation from the fringe; it must be an inundation from within. The simple fact is, since the collapse of the Democratic Party in the '60s and the factionalization of the Socialists under Anderson and Austen, the Alliance has been dominant; since its formal beginning, it has won every Presidential election it has competed in by more than 60% except one, which it lost by a margin of only 1.2%. Perhaps the internal stresses of the coalition - which has, after all, maintained an internal distinction between Progressive secularists and a Democratic-Action Christian Left, and is increasingly polarized by region and generation - will break it apart. Perhaps the Alliance will absorb it and the Seventh Party System will return under a new name. Or perhaps the Socialists will reorient to capture current core Alliance voters...



[1] In an August poll from the University of Montana, 72% of Socialists stated that they would oppose reducing the threshold for Congress to impeach a president to a simple majority, and 53% said they would oppose reducing the threshold for a veto override to a simple majority.

 

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