- Location
- Op een dag, Nederland.
- Pronouns
- she/her & ne/nem
Might as well set up a poll just for the sake of it, just to see people's views and decisions and whatnot. Predicting Klobuchar klobbering o'klock tho
It has been four years since President Warren Beatty won a landslide victory in the election, and it is time for the American people to decide who should be their next commander-in-chief. Unlike many other democracies, America enjoys a perfectly balanced three party system, the envy of many third parties around the world
President Beatty's legacy is very controversial, with his decision to enter America into a deal with the Concord of Nations and with foreign nations in order to "end" the Nusantara War being criticised by Populists for being a "fake" end (indeed, American troops are still there, only under CoN control) and by Republicans for "surrendering" like the weakling pinko Beatty apparently is. This and his radical social policies that transformed American society to a much more liberal one, has ensured that the 2016 election is ambiguous, with there being a possibility of the Dems, Reps or Pops winning, or a hung electoral college as is always possible with three candidates of roughly equal strength
The Candidates!
Democratic: Vice-President Amy Klobuchar (FL-Minnesota)/Senator Steve Westly (D-California)
"There is a difference between being bold and being rash"
- Klobuchar's finishing statement at the third debate
Despite being from the Party of Floyd Olson, the vice-president is noted to be much more moderate and pragmatic. Unlike President Beatty, Amy Klobuchar is known to be folksy and appealing to more rural areas similar to her native Minnesota even if she gets a cooller reception in more urban and liberal areas. She promises to continue on Beatty's policies, even if tempered by her moderation, and of course she's a firm backer of the Beatty Plan and stands solidly for internationalism and working with the world, not against it, such was the way she put it in the second debate that got Dem chirpers chirping it all over the social media. But is the party of William Randolph Hearst, Henry Wallace, Robert Redford and Warren Beatty ready to embrace moderation instead of being the "Conscience of the Nation"?
Populist: Senator Marco Rubio (P-Florida)/Senator Herb Kohl (P-Michigan)
"I only know what I believe"
- Part of Rubio's finishing statement at the third debate
Beatty's "thorn in the butt" for most of his second term was rising and heavily ambitious Senator Marco Rubio of Florida. A loud critic of Beatty's foreign policy, he has adroitly avoided most social issues [being from a swing state and all] and so has emerged as the nominee most likely to take the Populists back to the days of Bill Clinton's moderation and away from the right-wing bent it took after. His firm promises to withdraw every American soldier from Nusantara and renegotiate America's relationship with the Concord of Nations has gotten experts worried and his rivals for the Presidency warning that his plans will fail and wreck everything. But there's a demand there he's filling as American society has, over the last four years, grown... tired with the world? Perhaps isolationism is the path forward?
Republican: Governor Bill Haslam (R-Tennessee)/Governor Brian Sandoval (R-Nevada)
"I will give people a dollar worth of value for a dollar worth of tax paid"
- Haslam's finishing sentence in the third debate
But perhaps people will see Klobuchar and Rubio as two sides of the same coin. After all, Rubio has merely said vague centre-right buzzwords about economic policy but voted faithfully with the Populist whip. So Governor Haslam could argue that only he promises a return to fiscal conservatism and balanced budgets and tightening belts and cutting reckless spending. And peculiarly enough for a Republican, he also promises to look into making college cheaper for all Americans being the only candidate who speaks about it when not forced to, and this has... gotten him some odd fans. Go on Chirpit or Facepage and you'll see "Bill Haslam Will Make Anime Real" and "The Haslam Train Never Stops!" memes from energised 20-year-olds cheering on a conservative, of all people. On foreign policy, Haslam has wisely not said much
Which candidate will the notoriously fickle American people decide will lead them for the next four years?
It has been four years since President Warren Beatty won a landslide victory in the election, and it is time for the American people to decide who should be their next commander-in-chief. Unlike many other democracies, America enjoys a perfectly balanced three party system, the envy of many third parties around the world
President Beatty's legacy is very controversial, with his decision to enter America into a deal with the Concord of Nations and with foreign nations in order to "end" the Nusantara War being criticised by Populists for being a "fake" end (indeed, American troops are still there, only under CoN control) and by Republicans for "surrendering" like the weakling pinko Beatty apparently is. This and his radical social policies that transformed American society to a much more liberal one, has ensured that the 2016 election is ambiguous, with there being a possibility of the Dems, Reps or Pops winning, or a hung electoral college as is always possible with three candidates of roughly equal strength
The Candidates!
Democratic: Vice-President Amy Klobuchar (FL-Minnesota)/Senator Steve Westly (D-California)
"There is a difference between being bold and being rash"
- Klobuchar's finishing statement at the third debate
Despite being from the Party of Floyd Olson, the vice-president is noted to be much more moderate and pragmatic. Unlike President Beatty, Amy Klobuchar is known to be folksy and appealing to more rural areas similar to her native Minnesota even if she gets a cooller reception in more urban and liberal areas. She promises to continue on Beatty's policies, even if tempered by her moderation, and of course she's a firm backer of the Beatty Plan and stands solidly for internationalism and working with the world, not against it, such was the way she put it in the second debate that got Dem chirpers chirping it all over the social media. But is the party of William Randolph Hearst, Henry Wallace, Robert Redford and Warren Beatty ready to embrace moderation instead of being the "Conscience of the Nation"?
Populist: Senator Marco Rubio (P-Florida)/Senator Herb Kohl (P-Michigan)
"I only know what I believe"
- Part of Rubio's finishing statement at the third debate
Beatty's "thorn in the butt" for most of his second term was rising and heavily ambitious Senator Marco Rubio of Florida. A loud critic of Beatty's foreign policy, he has adroitly avoided most social issues [being from a swing state and all] and so has emerged as the nominee most likely to take the Populists back to the days of Bill Clinton's moderation and away from the right-wing bent it took after. His firm promises to withdraw every American soldier from Nusantara and renegotiate America's relationship with the Concord of Nations has gotten experts worried and his rivals for the Presidency warning that his plans will fail and wreck everything. But there's a demand there he's filling as American society has, over the last four years, grown... tired with the world? Perhaps isolationism is the path forward?
Republican: Governor Bill Haslam (R-Tennessee)/Governor Brian Sandoval (R-Nevada)
"I will give people a dollar worth of value for a dollar worth of tax paid"
- Haslam's finishing sentence in the third debate
But perhaps people will see Klobuchar and Rubio as two sides of the same coin. After all, Rubio has merely said vague centre-right buzzwords about economic policy but voted faithfully with the Populist whip. So Governor Haslam could argue that only he promises a return to fiscal conservatism and balanced budgets and tightening belts and cutting reckless spending. And peculiarly enough for a Republican, he also promises to look into making college cheaper for all Americans being the only candidate who speaks about it when not forced to, and this has... gotten him some odd fans. Go on Chirpit or Facepage and you'll see "Bill Haslam Will Make Anime Real" and "The Haslam Train Never Stops!" memes from energised 20-year-olds cheering on a conservative, of all people. On foreign policy, Haslam has wisely not said much
Which candidate will the notoriously fickle American people decide will lead them for the next four years?