American Political History

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Current revision as of 12:34, 25 January 2008

[edit] Real History

Real timeline history - up to the end of Reagan I would guess... maybe some minor things during or before reagan, just to give backstory to characters and such... but for the most part, real history up to the election of GHWB.

[edit] Republican Presidential Dominance

• Reagan, Bush and Calvert all for 8 years... 24 straight years of republican leadership
• At the same time, complete democratic control of the congress, except one session of divided government in the 107th congress under Michael Calvert. Some Congresses were balanced, but were basically democratic strongholds

[edit] 9/11 and the Democrats

• The 9/11 attacks were blamed on Republicans, especially the presidencies of GHWB and Calvert
• 108th Congress went absolutely lopsidedly democratic (first election post-9/11) and dis-satisfaction with Calvert became pronounced by the time he left office. No mandate existed for him - the good will and public opinion bump after the attack disappeared after a couple years.
• Event lead to the election of Alexander Bryant in 2004 and continued democratic dominance
• Democrat president Robert Campbell elected after Bryant - with democratic majorities in his first term as well as 2 years of his final term
• This period saw the aggressive push for new entitlements, universal healthcare, higher taxes, military increases (from democrats) and huge deficit spending

[edit] The 2014 Republican Revolution

• After massive government entitlement spending, tax increases, military over-runs, aggressive interventionalist wars being fought, and horrendous defecits, the republican party became hawkishly fiscally conservative, and in a style similar to the real life 1994 election, they came out with an ambitious and strong plan to reform entitlements, shrink government, curtail spending, cut taxes and get control over our foreign policy. The president and the democratic congress had horrifically low approval ratings, and in 2014, they were rejected by voters, giving republicans a real working majority in both houses for the first time since the 83rd Congress (elected in 1952) - thus finally recapturing the congress after 62 years (though they had at times taken one house or the other).
• Large Republican gains were made in statehouses as well when the GOP picked up fourteen governor seats and 642 legislative seats. In so doing, it took control of 24 state legislatures from the Democrats. Prior to this, Republican had not held the majority of governorships since 1972. In addition, this was the first time in 70 years that the GOP controlled a majority of state legislatures.
• Discontent against the Democrats was foreshadowed by a string of elections after 2012, the more notable among them being the capture of the mayoralties of Baltimore and Chicago by the Republicans in 2011, and New York and Los Angeles in 2013.
• Continued republican dominance of most areas of government until 2046 or so - with the democrats occasionally capturing the senate, but almost always being on the outside looking in.

[edit] The Birth of the Civic Union

• The CU was founded in 2041 (toward the end of the 126th Congress) by a group of moderate Senators who were republicans, independents and democrats - all of whom banded together to form a new party, and formally organized themselves under it.
• In the House, the moderate coalition was founded as well, with members changing parties and organizing themselves as CU
• This is a realization of the "third way" politics that never was released under Clinton, thus was brewing all this time under the surface, thus when a group of powerful people signed on and began advocating and organizing, the American people were in love with it.
• Initially, the movement was not large enough to take a majority, or even serve as a very powerful minority, but it became seen as a legitimate and viable third option none the less, which paid off with the emergence of a charismatic and brilliant candidate for national election - Alec Watters
• Ten years of congressional dominance

[edit] The Malaise

• Three competing parties of roughly equal strength emerged by the end of Watters term (R, D, CU)
• The fracturing of the vote from these three parties, coupled with Alec Watters choice of a very Dick Cheney like VP (one who had no ambition), so when he left there was a vacuum of power in the party, and in the country, and the result was a fracturing of the vote, the election of a LIBERTARIAN candidate who was the most charismatic and interesting person with the most name recognition, and 12 consecutive years of divided government.

[edit] Navarro and the near death of the Republican Party

• The climate resulted in Gregory Navarro selecting a republican as his vice presidential running mate, in a move to unify the country.
• His impreachment and conviction was blamed on an aggressive republican leadership, and given corruption, coupled with poor governance - which after the trial resulted in a 44 year span of no republican presidents, and a minority of power in Congress for a long amount of time as well.