Hey guys, I thought I'd share this little story I wrote last year with you. I posted in on Trekweb already, last April.
Anyway, maybe some of you don't know it yet and are interested -- although it's not Star Trek-related, but alternative history fiction.
Hope you enjoy!
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Alternative History Fiction: How America's Hitler Came to Power
We are in 1983. There is a crisis in Europe between the NATO and the USSR, and the worst case becomes reality: The crisis escalates into a war between the superpowers. US President Ronald Reagan holds a dramatic speech: "The ultimate war between good and evil has become reality. We have to fight the final battle for the liberation of the world!"
While the public is afraid of a nuclear escalation, nobody has any doubt that the USSR is responsible for this war, and a wave of patriotism goes through the country. Millions of young men enlist for the army, and the Democrats declare their unconditional solidarity with President Reagan.
At first, the war seems to go well for the USA; there is some progress at the front, and Ronald Reagan, celebrated as the great war President, wins the 1984 election with a huge majority.
After two years, in 1985, the war does not go well for the USA. There is no nuclear escalation, because both sides don't dare taking this step, but the Soviet troops have advanced in Europe and hold many territories of NATO states. The USA have taken a huge effort sending reinforcements to Europe, and the state has increased its debts to a very high level in order to pay for armament -- but these efforts seem to be in vain, no progress is made on the front.
In 1986, the situation for the civil population in the USA deteriorates severely: There is a shortage of food and medication, and illnesses are spreading. It becomes obvious that the USA have problems to muster the resources necessary to fight this war, while maintaining civil infrastructure at home. Up to 3 million American civilians die due to illnesses and shortage of food. But President Reagan declares: "There can be no end to this war now -- there is no other option but victory!"
At this point, parts of the Democrats start opposing this war, and there is a severe fight in the Democratic Party between war supporters and opposers. In the end, about 25% of the Democrats split off from their party and form a new one: The Peace Party. While the remaining Democrats keep supporting the war, Peace Party chairman Jesse Jackson declares: "It has become obvious that there will be no winner in this war, but we are all losing. The humanitarian situation for poor people has become unbearable. It is time to start negotiations with the USSR about a peace that will allow both sides to save face."
Until the beginning of 1988, the situation in the USA becomes even worse, while the NATO loses more and more ground in Europe. More and more people grow angry with President Reagan's uncompromising will to keep fighting, because they don't see any chance of winning. There are peace protests all over the country now, calling Reagan to start negotiations, many of them supported by the Peace Party. One of their most engaged activists is Ralph Nader, who has joined the Peace Party and soon becomes its most prominent speaker.
In February 1988, 20 million Americans hold a national peace demonstration, initiated by Nader and the Peace Party. In some cities, it comes to clashes between angry protesters and the police, several people die. Among the peace protesters are several figures of the Civil Rights Movement, claiming that black people are the group that suffer most under this war, some even accuse Reagan of racism regarding the distribution of food and medication.
Polls are showing that the Peace Party now has the support of about 50% of the population, while Reagan and the Republicans have dropped to an all-time low of 30%. The Democrats with their moderate support for the war are down to 20%.
In April 1988, Reagan finally realizes that this war cannot be won -- the USA have no resources left, and the USSR is now holding most of continental Europe, including West-Germany, France and Italy. He sends a message to the USSR, asking for negotiations about a cease fire. But the USSR replies that they will not negotiate with the USA, as long as Reagan is President -- they will only negotiate with a new government.
When this condition becomes public, the angry protesters turn against Reagan, now openly calling for his resignation. The situation deteriorates: In many places, the peace protests get out of control, the police loses the control over several cities.
The Democrats too now urge Reagan to resign, and support negotiations with the USSR, approaching the position of the Peace Party.
Reagan now fears that the country would fall into a civil war if he didn't resign -- so he starts an initiative in the Congress, supported by Republicans and Democrats, that would allow him to turn over the power to a provisional government of the Peace Party. The Supreme Court rules that this initiative is legal "in order to save the Union".
In July 1988, Ralph Nader (Peace Party) is appointed provisional President of the USA, Michael Dukakis (Democrats) becomes VP, Jesse Jackson (Peace Party) becomes Secretary of State; the provisional government is a mixed government of Peace Party and Democrats. This new government immediately starts negotiations for a cease fire with the USSR. In September 1988, this cease fire comes into effect, and the new government finds wide support in the war weary population.
The new government 1988:
Ralph Nader (Peace Party), US President
Michael Dukakis (Democrats), Vice President
Jesse Jackson (Peace Party), Secretary of State
The USSR and the USA are now starting negotiations for a final peace treaty.
In the Presidential elections November 1988, Republican George H. Bush is running against Ralph Nader, who is the common candidate of Peace Party and the Democrats, which promise a continuation of the mixed government. Nader wins in a landslide -- about 60% of the voters vote for him. His provisional government now is the official government.
But Nader doesn't manage to calm down the peace protests, which are still going on because the humanitarian situation has hardly improved, and which have now also become new racial protests, because many black people are still convinced that the government discriminate black people regarding the distribution of food and medication. "Black Power" groups, like Nation of Islam and Black Panthers get an updraft, and are at the top of these ongoing protests.
More extreme leftists, who think Nader's government is not radical enough because Nader doesn't persecute Reagan for war crimes, still push for new protests as if Reagan was still in power. "We don't want Nader, we want a wholly new Republic!", they claim, and "There is no justice until Reagan is on trial!"
In December 1988, these protests get violent, and the protesters fight the police out of several cities. In Mississippi, radical peace activists and black Muslim groups fight the police out of the state and establish a "Free Social Republic of Mississippi", President Nader calls out the army to break down the protests in order to preserve order -- several hundred protesters get killed. This causes a crisis in the Peace Party. Many members accuse Nader of being a traitor against their cause. President Nader, supported by moderate Peace Party members and the Democrats, claims: "We have to maintain order and the Union of our country. We have a new legitimate government now, violent protests are not acceptable!"
Peace Party chairman Jesse Jackson attempts to cool down the racial conflict: "I can assure you, we in the new legitimate government are doing all we can to improve equality. But this day is not the day for revenge on our old leaders. This day, we need unity in this troubled country!"
But many Peace Party members are so angry with Nader's use of force, some even accuse Nader of racism because his remarks against the black protests, and split off from the Peace Party, founding the Civil Rights Now!-Party (CRN), strongly influenced by extremely leftist civil rights activists.
George McGovern is elected their chairman. Soon, many "Black Power" and "Black Muslim" people join the party, Khalil Abdul Muhammed from the "Black Panthers" is one of the most prominent speakers. This new party does not support the US Constitution anymore, but McGovern calls for a new Constitution to be made "which guarantees equal rights for racial minorities and social security systems to eliminate poverty and social discrimination" -- and he demands "Reagan and his ilk of fascist war criminals on trail".
There are 4 major Parties in the USA now: A poll in February 1989 shows that the leftist CRN has support of 20% of the population, Nader's moderate left Peace Party/Democrat coalition wins 45%, the Republicans 35%.
At the same time, the US public is waiting for the results of the negotiations concerning a permanent peace treaty with the USSR -- march 7th 1989, the USSR makes their conditions for a peace with the USA public. The demands come to the US population as a shock:
The peace conditions dictated by the USSR to the USA:
- The USA have to disarm its troops to a strength of 200,000 soldiers and deliver all nuclear equipment to the USSR; the USA would have to give up all military bases outside its territory and turn over Britain to the Soviets -- the USA will become a regional power on eyelevel with Mexico and Canada
- The USA have to turn over Alaska and Hawaii to the USSR
- Texas will become an independent state disconnected from the US, with a permanent Soviet presence to secure oil deliveries to the USSR
- Florida will be turned over to Cuba
- very hard reparations: The USA will have to pay billions of dollars to the USSR, in order to "pay all costs the USSR have had because of this war"; annual sums of billions of dollars will have to be paid from 1990 to 2052
- The USA have to accept that the war was exclusively their fault, and they alone are to blame for it
These peace conditions by the USSR cause a wide outrage in the US population. President Nader calls them "totally unacceptable" and rejects to sign this peace treaty. The USSR now gives the USA and ultimatum: Either the Nader government signs this treaty within 7 days, or they will start a military invasion on North America.
A majority of Peace Party, the Democrats and moderate Republicans realize that they have no choice but accepting these peace conditions, because the US do not have the resources to stand against a Soviet invasion. In order to prevent an even worse fate for his country, the Nader government finally gives in: March 14th 1989, Secretary of State Jesse Jackson (Peace Party) signs the conditions by the USSR -- approved by a majority of Peace Party, Democrats and moderate Republicans in the Congress.
But about a third of the Republicans refuses to sign it, and support a continuation of the war, ignoring that the US are not capable of doing that. When the moderate Republican leadership asks these members to moderate their position, these protesting right-wing Republicans split off from their party, founding a new one: The Patriotic Party ("Patriots". The remaining Republicans, on the other hand, support Nader; George H. Bush explains their position that "the peace conditions have to be revised by diplomatic means, we cannot afford to continue this war".
Pat Buchanan is elected chairman of the Patriots and declares: "There is only one reason why we lost this war: Because of liberal traitors from the so called "peace movement" and "civil rights groups", who have fought against this country from within! These blacks and liberals have sided with the Communists, fallen in the back of our brave soldiers! It was a dagger's thrust from behind, and these traitors are the only reason why we have lost! Ralph Nader and his black friends are traitors, they have delivered this country to the Communists. We will fight him with all means necessary!"
Under great protest by a great number of US citizens and Pat Buchanan's Patriots, President Nader dissolves all US military bases outside of US borders, delivers Alaska and Hawaii to the USSR, Florida to Cuba and leaves Texas into independence -- approved by a majority of Peace Party, Democrats and moderate Republicans in the Congress.
After the Nader government has done that, its approval rate is sinking rapidly. Because of its tough dealing with demonstrations of civil rights groups, it loses many of its supporters to the leftist CRN, while many more right-leaning voters turn to Pat Buchanan's Patriots.
By the end of 1989, the country is at the brink of civil war: On the streets, leftist CRN supporters and black power groups are battling against Patriot supporters and right-wing soldiers who have come back from the war. They mutually blame each other: Leftists attack the right, call President Reagan a "fascist warmonger who is responsible for the destruction of our country", while the right claims "the only reason why we lost this war are liberal traitors and the civil rights movement". Severe racial tensions are developing.
In April 1990, a right-leaning general gathers a group of 5000 soldiers and starts a putsch: His troops occupy Washington DC, ask the Nader government to resign and to turn over the power to Pat Buchanan and the Patriots. But this putsch fails, because most parts of the army and bureaucracy don't support it. The general has to give up.
From May 1990 to August 1990, several violent left-wing and right-wing protests strike the country, and President Nader orders the army to strike them all down. Hundreds of protesters die.
The people radicalizes: The left hates Nader for his use of military force against their protests, for his cooperation with Reagan's Republicans and his refusal to put the "war criminals" on trial, the right blames Nader as a traitor for having signed the harsh peace conditions. People turn away from the three moderate parties (Peace Party, Democrats, Republicans), to the radical CRN and Patriots.
This trend fosters in the 1990 elections for the Congress: President Nader's governing coalition of Peace Party and Democrats loses its majority, the Patriots win 30% of the seats, the leftist CRN 15%. President Nader now seeks support from the moderate Republicans for his Peace Party/Democrat government.
This radicalization to left and right continues until before the 1992 Presidential elections: Polls are showing Pat Buchanan (Patriots) at 35%, Nader (Peace Party/Democrats) at 25%, George H. Bush (Republicans) at 25%, and George McGovern (CRN) at 15%.
The three moderate parties realize that they have no chance of winning if they run against each other. Peace Party and Republicans overcome their mutual differences, because they realize it would be the worst case possible if Pat Buchanan and his Patriots won the election. So the Peace Party, Democrats and Republicans agree on a common compromise candidate: Joe Lieberman (Democrats).
The campaign is very hard:
The Presidential Elections 1992:
The candidates and their platforms:
Joe Lieberman (Democrats; common candidate of Peace Party, Democrats and Republicans). His platform:
- George H. Bush (Republicans) is running mate as VP
- Jesse Jackson (Peace Party) is supposed to continue as Secretary of State
- a mixed "government of reason" by moderate members of Peace Party, Democrats and Republicans
- restoring order in the country and preserving its Union, against uprisings from left and right
- a revision of the peace treaty with the USSR by diplomatic means
Pat Buchanan (candidate of the Patriots):
- Pat Robertson (Patriots) is running mate as VP
- immediate annulation of the peace treaty with the USSR
- Ralph Nader and Jesse Jackson on trial for treason having signed the peace treaty
- a radical crackdown and legal persecution of all "liberal traitors and the so called civil rights movement which have delivered our country to the Communists"
- an annulation of all Amendments to the Constitution that were made in the Civil Rights era
- criminalization of all forms of "liberal decadence", like homosexuality, abortion and pacifism, which are responsible for the military defeat in the war against the USSR
George McGovern (candidate of the Civil Rights Now!-Party):
- Khalil Abdul Muhammed (CRN), former Black Panthers chairman, as running mate for VP
- Ronald Reagan and his government on trial for war crimes and crimes against the US population
- laws severely limiting the power of private corporations, and nationalization of the "military-industrial complex" in order to "punish those forces which are responsible for the destruction of our country"
- a new Constitution, or at least Amendments to the existing one, which criminalize all forms of racism and turn the USA into a "social state"
- large programs and quotas to rise the number of blacks in leading positions
After a very harsh campaign (Buchanan: "We now know it was wrong to grant blacks equality -- they have delivered us to the Communists, that's what they did with their power! And this Jew [Lieberman] is now collaborating with these traitors!" -- McGovern: "A tendency to fascism has built up in our country since the 1950s, and finally resulted in the military-industrial complex pushing his puppet Reagan into a war that has destroyed our country!", accompanied by numerous violent protests on the streets, Joe Lieberman (Peace Party, Democrats, Republicans) wins the election with 50%, against Buchanan (35%) and McGovern (15%).
In January 1993, Joe Lieberman (Democrats) is inaugurated as US President, George H. Bush (Republicans) becomes VP and Jesse Jackson (Peace Party) Secretary of State.
In summer 1993, President Lieberman starts a diplomatic campaign towards the USSR, in order to revise the peace conditions. After hard negotiations, Lieberman has to come home without success: Except for a few minor corrections regarding the sum of the reparations, he achieved nothing. The USSR was not willing to give in, or even talk about the status of Texas and Florida.
Also, the economic situation in the US deteriorates because of the hard reparations, and an inflation because the state has to pay back the debts from the war: Many companies go bankrupt, unemployment reaches a level of 25%. The Middle Class empoverishes.
This decline of the social situation, which hits blacks overproportionally, gives the CRN an updraft, while the failure of President Lieberman's diplomacy towards the USSR convince even more people to turn to the Patriots' radical position on the peace treaty.
In the 1994 elections for the Congress, the three moderate parties (Peace Party, Democrats, Republicans) lose their majority -- CRN and Patriots now together have a majority, which of course doesn't mean they get through any laws, because of their mutual hatred. But they keep blocking every law proposed by the moderate governing parties.
The political process is paralyzed: Every law that President Lieberman's coalition of Peace Party/Democrats/Republicans want to get through gets blocked by Patriots and CRN.
This trend of radicalization continues until before the Presidential elections 1996: Polls are showing no majority anymore for the three moderate parties -- Lieberman (Peace Party, Democrats, Republicans) reaches 35%, Buchanan (Patriots) 40% and McGovern (CRN) 25%.
The Democrats, Peace Party and Republicans are desperate. They know it would be most dangerous if Buchanan, with his radical platform, won the elections -- so they decide to split the voters of the Patriots with a coup:
They propose old Ronald Reagan, celebrated as "the great war President" by many supporters of the Patriots, should run again as President for a moderate coalition. They know this is the only way to attract enough of the right-wing voters to keep Buchanan from becoming elected as next President.
And indeed, Ronald Reagan, although his health condition is not the best, realizes that he has the responsibility not to let his country fall to far-right extremists, and accepts the proposal.
The plan of the moderate parties works out: After they announce their plan to nominate Reagan, the Patriots are divided about the question whether or not they should support Reagan. In the end, a large majority in the Congress of Peace Party, Democrats, Republicans and Patriots too changes the Amendment in the Constitution that limits the Presidency to two terms, in order to allow Reagan to run again.
A certain number of Peace Party and Democrat members are enraged, because Reagan is responsible for the disaster in their eyes, but they finally agree to the support of Reagan by their parties in the upcoming elections. They understand that Buchanan as President would be much worse.
The Presidential Elections 1996:
The 1996 Presidential elections sees two major candidates:
Ronald Reagan (Republican) -- common candidate of Peace Party, Democrats, Republicans and Patriots:
- Joe Lieberman (Democrats) as VP
- Jesse Jackson (Peace Party) as Secretary of State
- mixed centrist government of Democrats, Republicans and Peace Party
- restoring order against leftist protests and improving the horrible economic condition
- reuniting the country
George McGovern (CRN):
- the same as 1992
Ronald Reagan, supported by four parties, wins in a landslide, with 70% against George McGovern (CRN) who reaches 30%.
And indeed, the plan seems to work out: Reagan's Presidency, his mixed "government of unity" with moderates of the three moderate parties, and his glorious image as "great war President" seems to give the country a new sense of unity.
The support for Patriots and CRN is dropping, and the moderate parties get an updraft. The economy also recovers slowly, the unemployment rate slightly sinks from 25% to 15%. The protests on the streets calm down, and a certain sense of patriotic unity has come back to the people.
The Democrats and Republicans are the clear winners of the Congress elections in 1998: The Peace Party loses a considerable number of their seats, Patriots and CRN even fall below 10% each.
In the meantime, Michail Gorbachev has become new leader of the Soviet Union. He seems to be much more compromising than he predecessor, and Secretary of State Jesse Jackson (Peace Party) starts talks with Gorbachev about a revision of the peace conditions. Jackson makes slow progress, he achieves some more slackening of the reparation sum and the question of the American troop size.
But suddenly in January 1999, there is a huge crash on the US stock market: The stocks are collapsing, causing a national economic crisis. Dozens of companies go bankrupt, even banks. The unemployment rate jumps from 15% to 30%, everything which was left of the Middle Class empoverishes. Experts compare this crash to the Great Depression of the 1920s and 30s.
The fragile normalization and social stability is gone again -- there are violent protests on the streets, the CRN gets an updraft, blaming the "capitalistic system" and "their racists puppets in the established parties" for the crash -- the Patriots on the other hand once again blame "these so called moderates in the government who have sold us out to the Communists".
In this situation of public uproar, a gifted public speaker emerges as new head of the protests: An independent far-right Senator, John Brown of Oklahoma, soon becomes the figurehead of the protests. He becomes more and more popular, because of his extraordinary rhetoric talent that seems to hit a nerve in the disastrous economic situation. His speeches are almost hypnotizing. He propagates an extremely conservative worldview: "Fags", "flag burners" and "atheists" are nothing but the expression of a decadency that has made the country weak - that's why the US lost the war in his eyes. he also blames the Civil Rights Movement of the 60s for social decay, emphasizing the role that the civil rights groups have played in the peace protests in 1988. Such people belong to prison, because they are traitors, in their blindness supporting the enemy. Liberal decadence and "socialism of the state-fixated leftists in the government" have lead to the economic breakdown - "and those godless criminals who have first lost the war and then let *us* pay for it alone now pillage the common people". There is no speech without him mentioning a "new patriotism for an again united America", a "bright future" when America once will have "shattered the disgracing communist dictate".
Brown founds a new party, the American Awakening Party, which gains new members at incredible speed. Polls soon show public support for his party at about 30%. His vision of a new unity of the divided people, as well as him being the only politician to reject the peace treaty that radically, appeals to a lot of different demographics. Even some leftists, and those empoverished by the crisis, are baited by his ideas of free healthcare and unemployment support "for all American patriots".
The new founded FOX NEWS network, whose owner Rupert Murdoch is a close personal friend of Brown, supports Brown's cause, by giving him and his fellow party members overproportionate airtime in its program, and advancing his arguments in numerous talkshows.
Brown's American Awakening Party has an aggressive approach of addressing very different demographics of voters -- Brown combines far-right social ideas with almost socialist ideas on the economy, which appeals to the far-right as much as to many leftists. Soon polls see the Awakening Party between 30% and 40% support. Many voters see in Brown's charisma, and his revolutionary ideas a way to resurrect strength and pride to America.
Brown's Awakening Party finds massive support from right-leaning militias in Southern states, and as the 2000 Presidential election comes closer, it comes to massive fights on the streets again, numerous clashes between right-wing militias and mostly black supporters of the leftist CRN. Dozens of people get killed on the streets, it takes the police several days to restore order.
In this situation, President Ronald Reagan, although hardly in a health condition to do so, decides that it is his patriotic to run for President once again, in order to unite the country. But he sees that he would not be able to unite the country, if he didn't encompass Brown's Awakening Party.
So he proposes Governor John Brown to join his campaign as running mate for VP, and offers him certain compromises regarding political positions. Reagan thinks that this way, he will be able to control this new radical movement, taming it, keeping it from becoming a threat. "We will enframe him with moderate Republicans, and within one month, we will be able to squeeze him", Reagan tells a confident. "Let's put Colin Powell to his right side and John McCain to his left, and he will think twice before he gets nasty again." John Brown accepts the offer to run as Reagan's VP.
The coalition of the three moderate parties, Democrats, Republicans and Peace Party falls into a severe quarrel about whether or not they should support Reagan in the upcoming elections -- is he really the lesser evil, or would they invite the evil by supporting a VP John Brown?
In the end, the Republicans and Patriots decide to support Reagan once again, while the Democrats and the Peace Party decide to run with a candidate on their own: They nominate Al Gore.
Because of this, there are 3 major candidates in the elections:
The Presidential Election 2000:
Ronald Reagan (Republican) -- supported by Republicans, Patriots and American Awakening Party
- John Brown (Awakening Party) as VP
- Pat Buchanan (Patriots) as Secretary of the Interior
- Colin Powell (Republican) as Secretary of State
- John McCain (Republican) as Minister of Justice
- a mixed right-wing government of Republicans, Patriots and Awakening Party members
- stricter laws against treason, public uproar
- strictly conservative positions on social issues
Al Gore (Democrat) -- supported by Democrats and Peace Party
- Jesse Jackson (Peace Party) as VP
- mixed government of Democrats and Peace Party members
- "saving the country from far-right extremism and chaos"
- moderate positions on social and economic questions
And:
George McGovern (CRN) -- running for the leftist Civil Rights Now!-Party
- same as 1992 and 1996
In the end, Ronald Reagan wins clearly with 45%, against Al Gore (35%) and George McGovern (20%).
In January 2001, Ronald Reagan is inaugurated again as US President, and the radical Oklahoma Governor John Brown becomes VP. Reagan now forms a right-leaning government with ministers from the Republican Party, the Patriots and Brown's Awakening Party.
Reagan enframes radical Brown and Buchanan with moderate Republican ministers: Colin Powell becomes Secretary of State and John McCain Minister for Justice. Many other important positions are given to moderates, in order to balance out Brown.
In the first few months, President Reagan's plan seems to work out: Because Brown's Awakening Party has to work together with these moderate Republicans in the government, it becomes much more moderate than before, and it loses some public support.
But in July 2001, Ronald Reagan's health condition deteriorates dramatically, and after two weeks in a hospital, he declares his resignation as US President -- VP John Brown becomes the new President.
President Brown celebrates his new position as "a turning point in American history", the "beginning of a powerful awakening of this great country".
Then suddenly, on September 11th 2001, Islamist radicals direct three airplanes into the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon, murdering more than 3000 people -- America is in a shock.
President Brown addresses the public: "This is a national crisis. I, the US President, will do everything in my power to solve this crisis, with all means necessary! And this was not just the attack of foreign Muslims on our country, no, they have had many supporters from within! This so called "Civil Rights Movement" is a hotbed of leftist traitors and Muslims -- we will take care of them. We will find all traitors within our borders, and bring them to justice! "
On September 13th 2001 already, President Brown pushes a law through Congress: The "Patriot Act", which allows severe restrictions on Constitutional rights. In the night from September 13th to 14th, about 10,000 US citizens get arrested and deported to Guantanamo Bay, most of them black members of the CRN. Due to the "Patriot Act", they are denied legal assistance or fair trials. George McGovern is among them too. They are being accused of having assisted the Islamists on 9/11. The police also arrests all members of the CRN in the Congress and in state legislatures and governments.
Because of the shock after 9/11, a majority of Americans supports these steps.
President Brown now claims: "The communist CRN, the so called civil rights movement, and their black Muslim friends are planning a revolution in this country. They are planning to fight away the legitimate government, and what we have seen on 9/11 was only the beginning. But I can assure you, I will do everything which is necessary to prevent this from happening!"
Large parts of the press and media, especially the new Fox News network, are supporting President Brown's theory of a leftist takeover by the CRN -- fear among the population grows that soon, there will be another terrorist attack, combined with an open uprising initiated by the CRN and black power groups.
President Brown presents himself as "tough on terrorism and leftist groups", and pushes for a new law to be enacted: The Enabling Act. This law would allow his government to get through laws without approval by the Congress, "until the current crisis will be resolved". The law is limited to 6 months.
President Brown asks the public to support this law: "We are in an extreme situation now, and we have to react quickly to prevent a leftist and black Muslim takeover in America. The threat is not over yet! Because of that, my government needs unlimited executive power, without limitations by the process -- and we only need that until the current crisis will be over. I promise, once America is safe again, I will turn down this power again."
October 15th 2001, the Congress approves of the Enabling Act, turning its own power over to the President. Republicans, Patriots, Awakening Party and several Democrats support it -- only the Peace Party and parts of the Democrats vote against it, and the CRN members have already been removed from the Congress by the police.
Once President Brown has full executive and legislative powers in his hands, he starts showing his real face:
In December 2001, he fires all moderate politicians, like Colin Powell and John McCain from his government and replaces them with hardliners from his party.
Then he makes laws that criminalize all forms of treason, which factually allows him to arrest whomever he wants. Soon, many opposition politicians vanish in prisons. Jesse Jackson (Peace Party), who had signed the peace treaty with the USSR as Secretary of State, is being tried in front of a military drumhead and executed after 2 days for "treason".
In January 2002, Brown enacts a law that determines that all state governors will not be elected by the state citizens, but appointed by his government.
Despite these actions, a majority of Americans still support all these measures, because they still see it as necessary evil to fight against the Islamist threat.
The few journalists who dare to call Brown's actions "totalitarian", or criticizing them with less harsh words, vanish in prisons, or are executed in front of drumheads for "treason against the American people". From this day on, no journalist dares ever again to write anything critical of the President.
The whole media turns into a gigantic propaganda machine: President Brown installs a government committee, which has the purpose of "counseling" and "informing" the journalists. Factually, the newspapers have to print whatever this committee proposes, or the journalists will face persecution for treason.
In may 2002, Brown enacts a law that makes all political parties besides his Awakening Party illegal, and declares his party to the official state party of the USA. "No longer will the people be divided! We will find a new union in a glory way into a bright future! From this day on, unity will replace vain bickery! I don't know any parties anymore, I only know my duty to the American people!"
The few protests that arise in the country against this step are struck down with massive police force, and President Brown labels this opposition "communist traitors" in numerous speeches. Thousands are imprisoned.
The state controlled media celebrates this step as "great step towards a long awaited unity of the country, the end of 14 years of division and unrest."
Despite all these actions, the approval rate of President Brown is rather high, because the people considers him as "tough against terrorism and communism", and because the economy recovers considerably -- and because no opposing voices are published any longer.
In January 2003, Brown openly breaks the peace treaty with the USSR: He enforces armament of the US forces, the number of soldiers soon surpasses the 200,000 soldiers limit. Also, he stops the deportation of nuclear facilities to the USSR, and enforces the development of new modern nuclear weapons. There is a massive rearmament effort.
Soviet leader Gorbachev ignores this obvious breach of the treaty, he does not take any action against the USA. "My predecessor has treated the USA way too harshly. When we just allow them to become an independent nation again, when we fulfill their legitimate demands, they will be content and pose no threat", Gorbachev explains in Pravda. The American people celebrate this open violation of the treaty as liberation, and Brown's approval rate even increases.
In numerous speeches, President Brown keeps the fear of the inner enemy -- revolutionary black Muslims and leftists -- alife, to justify all of his actions. His tone becomes more and more racist, time and again he connects "the blacks" to the disastrous defeat in 1988 and to 9/11, suggesting all blacks are Muslim sympathizers and traitors.
Under supervision by the government, Hollywood produces several big budget movies portraying blacks as treasonous leftists, lazy parasites who live from the labour of white people. These movies extensively stress that many blacks are allegedly Muslims.
The state controlled media perpetuates this propaganda and excessively advertises these movies.
Ann Coulter publishes a new book, called "Treason: How the Black Movement Destroyed America in 1988 and how Black Muslims Conspired with the Enemy on 9/11". Because of massive advertisement in the media, it soon becomes a bestseller. President Brown appoints Coulter to Minister for Education and her book becomes compulsory part of the curriculum in American high schools.
In April 2003, President Brown's government enacts a law that reintroduces racial segregation. Government spokesman Bill O'Reilly explains: "The civil rights movement has led to the peace protests that are responsible for our defeat in 1988. And on 9/11, black Muslims cooperated with foreign terrorists. Obviously, blacks have proven themselves as not responsible enough to deserve equality. They have a racial predisposition for laziness and treason."
Laws are made than determine blacks are not allowed to work in the administration, as lawyers or doctors.
At this point, there are no protests anymore, because there is no free press anymore and all opposing voices are not published. Instead, the news networks are broadcasting nonstop support for Brown's positions, quoting many "experts" on racial questions who support the new law. FOX News is the most vocal supporter of Brown's actions again. Government spokesman Bill O'Reilly is omnipresent in the media, justifying the new laws: "It's a sad truth that one half of all blacks in America are Communists, the other half are Islamists."
President Brown manages to push down the unemployment rate to 5%, by huge state financed programs to create labour. Again, his approval rate grows.
The 2004 elections are not free and democratic anymore: Since there is no free press, no independent control, Brown's party manipulates the elections: According to the official result, Brown wins with 98.9% of the votes.
The "Enabling Act" is prolonged indefinitely by the Congress, with unanimous agreement.
On 9/10/2005, a black man shoots a government official. This incident is hyped by President Brown's government: "This was a declaration of war by all blacks on the American people. Now America will strike back!", Brown declares.
In the night of 9/11/2005, thousands of racist farmers in Southern states, hatemongered by the official propaganda and supported by the police are burning houses and shops of blacks. Hundreds of blacks are killed. Brown's propaganda claims that "this was a spontanous reaction by decent Americans against this black murder".
Within three years, between 2003 and January 2006, Brown has massively re-armed the USA: The standing army encompasses 1.4 million soldiers now, and the military has been equipped with most modern arms, bombers and tanks.
In march 2006, President orders US troops to invade independent Texas and Cuban Florida -- the soldiers are welcomed as liberators from Soviet oppression, the people in Texas and Florida celebrate Brown as the reuniter of America.
But instead of declaring war, Soviet leader Gorbachev once again ignores this blatant violation of the peace treaty. He only sends a warning to the USA: "Any attack on Alaska or Hawaii will be considered as an act of war." Gorbachev still believes once Texas and Florida have been returned to the USA, Brown will have no further demands.
The American people celebrates President Brown, and the reunification with Texas and Florida. Brown's approval rate is now as high as never before -- many believe he has indeed restored the old greatness and strength to America.
In October 2006, Brown finally orders a full-scale invasion on Alaska, Hawaii and Cuba ...
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So far this little story. Hope you enjoyed.
"In earlier religions the spirit of the time was expressed through the individual and confirmed by miracles. In modern religions the spirit is expressed through the many and confirmed by reason."
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Wow. Buchanan shows what I believe to be his true colors here. An intriguing premise to say the least. The inclusion of Anne 'Cuntier' gave me a welcomed chuckle in an otherwise grim portrait. (Though I'm glad you didn't have the Rev. Jesse Jackson speaking in rhyme scheme )
Well done.
"Listen, man. Sleep gives you cancer. Everyone knows that."
Buchanan shows what I believe to be his true colors here.
LMAO!
I quote Lucy Lawless as D'Anna:
"What a strange little man."
The autumn days swung soft around me, like cotton on my
skin. But as the embers of the summer lost their breath
and disappeared, my heart went cold, and only hollow
rhythms resounded from within.
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Tupperfan 01/20/2025 18:32:13 Having fun with Scorned. He remembers me, but his attacks are very similar to what Patti used to try against me...And he quotes the same way!
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Jeremy 01/20/2025 07:18:11 You see that EssayBay ad to the left? Wouldn't that qualify as cheating?
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. The remaining Republicans, on the other hand, support Nader; George H. Bush explains their position that "the peace conditions have to be revised by diplomatic means, we cannot afford to continue this war".
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