- Location
- Op een dag, Nederland.
- Pronouns
- she/her & ne/nem
Since everyone else is doing it, might as well. Although I do question why we don't have an united graphics thing where people can post their graphics and everyone else can comment on it. I feel that would encourage a sense of discussion rather than "this thread is mine" etc.
Anyway, for The Blessed Sunlight, here's an election, the first one to take Labor to power.
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In 1850 things were unhappy in the United States. Slavery was tearing apart the country between North and South as people called for the end of people being in chains. There was a long economic depression as well that made people call for a new way - socialism? In 1850, things came to a head, as incompetent Buchanan went up against a broken Republican Party divided between those who wanted to damn all abolitionists, led by Calhoun, and those who wanted to keep it all together, led by Cass.
Buchanan, Calhoun, Cass. What terrible options! The American people lamented. And then they realized that they didn't have to choose any of those. There was another party, one that came second last time!
And hence the American people elected Franklin Pierce and the Labor Party to power, the first country in the world to elect a socialist government. Hardline conservatives rapidly embraced Calhoun's Nullification idea and worked to undermine Pierce's government, dividing people on if the Union was to be preserved, or if action had to be taken to stop Pierce ruining it.
They would eventually split between the dominant secessionists arguing that the Union was too ruined by Pierce and his socialism to salvage, and the rump unionists who joined with anti-nullifier conservatives and anti-socialists to form the new opposition to the Labor Party, the National Party, in 1851. By that time, the Civil War was gearing up to be born. It would last until 1857.
Anyway, for The Blessed Sunlight, here's an election, the first one to take Labor to power.
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In 1850 things were unhappy in the United States. Slavery was tearing apart the country between North and South as people called for the end of people being in chains. There was a long economic depression as well that made people call for a new way - socialism? In 1850, things came to a head, as incompetent Buchanan went up against a broken Republican Party divided between those who wanted to damn all abolitionists, led by Calhoun, and those who wanted to keep it all together, led by Cass.
Buchanan, Calhoun, Cass. What terrible options! The American people lamented. And then they realized that they didn't have to choose any of those. There was another party, one that came second last time!
And hence the American people elected Franklin Pierce and the Labor Party to power, the first country in the world to elect a socialist government. Hardline conservatives rapidly embraced Calhoun's Nullification idea and worked to undermine Pierce's government, dividing people on if the Union was to be preserved, or if action had to be taken to stop Pierce ruining it.
They would eventually split between the dominant secessionists arguing that the Union was too ruined by Pierce and his socialism to salvage, and the rump unionists who joined with anti-nullifier conservatives and anti-socialists to form the new opposition to the Labor Party, the National Party, in 1851. By that time, the Civil War was gearing up to be born. It would last until 1857.