List of Alternate Presidents and PMs II

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InfernoMole

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Presidents of Russia from 1991 and onwards:
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1991-1996: Vasily Kroputkin (Unity) [1]
1991: def. Yegor Stepanov (KPRF), General Alexander Lukin (Russian Popular Front), Sergei Mikhalkov (Independent)
1996-2000: Yegor Osorgin (Civic Self-Defense) [2]
1996: def. Vasily Kroputkin (Unity), General Alexander Lukin (RPF), Yegor Stepanov (KPRF), Sergei Mikhalkov (LDPR)
2000-2004: Ivan Danko (KPRF) [3]
2000: def. Boris Vorshevsky (Unity), Colonel Viktor Telegin (Orthodox Restoration), Leonard Ryabinovsky (Independent), Sergei Mikhalkov (LDPR), Mikhail Pronin (Civic Self-Defense)
2004-2008: Dmitry Bukharin (KPRF) [4]
2004: def. Boris Vorshevsky (Alliance for a Democratic Russia), Colonel Viktor Telegin (Orthodox Restoration), Valentin Belkin (Independent), Vladislav Kazzatov (Civic Self-Defense), Viktor Kurochkin (LDPR)
2008-2012: Ivan Dulin (Labour and Civil Rights) [5]
2008: def. Pyotr Degtyaryov (KPRF), Yuri Pronin/Viktor Mamonov (Golden Cause), Artur Pirozhkov (Independent), Danila Bagrov (Orthodox Restoration), Vladislav Kazzatov (Civic Self-Defense), Konstantin Voronin (Popular Democrats), Yegor Batrudov (ZPR)
2012-2016: Mikhail Cossack (Alliance for Progress) [6]
2012: def. Pyotr Degtyaryov (KPRF), Vladimir Kazantsev (Popular Democrats), Leonid Golubtsov (Golden Cause), Danila Bagrov (Orthodox Restoration), Nikolai Khruylov (Civic Self-Defense), Yegor Batrudov (PIDES),
2016-present: Yelena Larina (Alliance for Progress) [7]
2016: def. Fyodor Dyadin (KPRF), Nikolai Gerasimov (Popular Democrats), Danila Bagrov (Russian National Sovereign Union), Yegor Batrudov (EPTA), Alexei Kobylin (Civic Self-Defense)

[1]: A typically pro-Western politician who managed to edge out a victory, Vasily Kroputkin was seen as a deeply ineffectual President due to economy-hurting reforms and failure to properly deal with ultranationalists or with renegades.

[2]: A lieutenant colonel, GRU agent, defender of Russia and man of the people, Yegor Osorgin took a generally neutral position, being flexible enough to avoid being removed by the West...

[3]: ...but the people spoke, and the next President was militsya captain Ivan Danko, who previously cooperated with a Chicago cop in taking down a Georgian drug kingpin. To the West's shock and horror, Ivan Danko was a KPRF candidate, which led to the Western media criticizing Danko early on. While strict and highly conservative, Danko was cooperative and somewhat friendly to the West...

[4]: ...but Bukharin wasn't. Bukharin's term saw a far more radical shift from the West towards pursuing a path as an independent superpower, as Bukharin was a KGB agent and an "armored" one to boot. Still, Bukharin was brutal and efficient when dealing with renegades, and brutally straightforward when cooperating with the West to take down renegades. Bukharin was never lenient with renegades...

[5]: ...not as lenient as Dulin, who instead directed massive efforts to industrialize Russia. Dulin was practical, for he was a miller who eventually became the head of his factory. A straightforward, manly, hard-working populist, Ivan Dulin was the most stereotypically "Russian" President of Russia, in spite of being an unabashed homosexual. In fact, his homosexuality and his unreciprocated love for his previous boss have led him into numerous scandals...

[6]: ...thus, instead of a "dumb provincial proletarian", as a journalist (in)famously called him, the Russians chose a modern, strategically thinking, good-looking roboticist - Mikhail Sergeyevich Cossack. For the most part, Cossack continued industrializing the country, having a lot of experience, and was notable for boosting Russian science. Mikhail Cossack gained massive popularity among the populace, and was well-liked by the rest of the world too, but he couldn't deal quickly enough with the sudden, shocking attack of century-old Soviet scientist August Kuratov and his clone army on Moscow...

[7]: ...and that's why the "Patriot" program exists. Yelena Larina, MWD agent and member of "Patriot" who previously coordinated the Guardians in the battle against Kuratov, has become a highly popular figure and, thus, easily won the popular vote. As of currently, she continues Cossack and Dulin's industrialization reforms, but has put a lot of focus on the Russian army, which worries the West.
 
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Utgard96

Utgard96

Are these real people? I don't recognise any of them, but then again I don't know nearly as much about Russian politics as I should, so...
 
Mumby

Mumby

Red Tories!

1945-1953: Clement Attlee (Labour)
1945 (Majority) def. Winston Churchill (Conservative and Unionist), Archibald Sinclair (Liberal), Ernest Brown (Liberal National)
1950 (Majority) def. Winston Churchill (Conservative and Unionist), John Maclay (National Liberal), Clement Davies (Liberal)
1953-1959: Aneurin Bevan (Labour)
1953 (Majority) def. Anthony Eden (Conservative and Unionist), James Henderson-Stewart ('Reunited' Liberal)
1958 (Majority) def. Anthony Eden (Conservative and Unionist --- New Democratic), James Henderson-Stewart (United Liberal --- New Democratic)
1959-1966: Douglas Jay (Labour)
1961 (Majority) def. Harold Macmillan (Liberal and Conservative), Bill Alexander (Communist)
1966-1970: Iain Macleod (Liberal and Conservative)
1966 (Majority) def. Douglas Jay (Labour), Bill Alexander (Communist)
1970-1971: Peter Thorneycroft (Liberal and Conservative majority)
1971-1975: Ted Short (Labour)
1971 (Minority) def. Peter Thorneycroft (Liberal and Conservative), Bill Alexander (Communist)
1975-1984: Keith Joseph (Liberal and Conservative)
1975 (Majority) def. Ted Short (Labour), Mick McGahey (Communist)
1979 (Majority) def. Jim Callaghan (Labour), Mick McGahey (Communist)
1984-1991: Denis Healey (Labour)
1984 (Majority) def. Keith Joseph (Liberal and Conservative), Mick McGahey (Communist), Ian Gilmour (New Democratic)
1988 (Majority) def. John Biffen (Liberal and Conservative), Dave Cook (Communist)
1991-1995: John Smith (Labour)
1992 (Majority) def. Michael Heseltine (Liberal and Conservative), Dave Cook (Communist)
1995-1997: Roy Major (Labour majority)
1997-2002: Michael Portillo (Liberal and Conservative)
1997 (Majority) def. Roy Major (Labour), Dave Cook (Democratic Left)
 

Exitstencil

Come Home, America!
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1973-1977: George McGovern / Kevin White
Defeated:
Richard Nixon / Spiro Agnew

"... And this is the time. It is the time to live more with faith and less with fear, with an abiding confidence that can sweep away the strongest barriers between us and teach us that we are truly brothers and sisters.

So join with me in this campaign. Lend Mayor White and me your strength and your support, and together we will call America home to the ideals that nourished us from the beginning.

From secrecy and deception in high places, from violence abroad, and from weakness at home;

Come home, America."

1977-1981: Charles Matthias / Gerald Ford
Defeated:
George McGovern / Kevin White

"I can say with pride for my country, and with love in my heart, that the ERA is being introduced to the state legislatures for Ratification."

"Ladies and gentlemen, I can report that on September 31st, 1980, Charles Matthias has died from a gunshot wound."

1981-1982: Gerald Ford / VACANT
1982-1985: Gerald Ford / William Brock
Defeated:
Ted Kennedy / Lindy Boggs

"In this time of national strife, with enemies abroad and at home, let me ask you one question: Should we change horses mid-stream?"

"As my predecessor set before me, America will fight the plague known as Communism wherever it appears. That's why, I am authorizing military intervention in Nicaragua."

1985-1991: Alan Cranston / Henry Cisneros
Defeated:
Gerald Ford / William Brock
George H.W. Bush / Robert Michel

"I will set out to finish what we started 13 years ago; No longer will American men and women die overseas, and no longer will we lead humanity down the path of annihilation. Nuclear disarmament is a priority, for the preservation of the human race."

1991-1993: Henry Cisneros / VACANT

"I have faithfully served this administration, my party, and this country for the past 8 years. I'm looking forward to many more, but not as a President."

1993-2001: Pierre Du Pont / Donald Rumsfeld
Defeated:
Mario Cuomo / Al Gore
Jerry Brown / Paul Sarbanes
Lowell Weicker / Ross Perot

"Opportunity is why we were founded, why we prospered, and why we prevail.

Opportunity is not government power; it's not government programs; it's not something to be administered. Unlike my opponent, I have known in my life, opportunity."

This Administration’s objective will be a healthy, vigorous, growing economy that provides equal opportunities for all Americans, with no barriers born of hate and malice. Putting America back to work means putting all Americans back to work. Ending this recession means freeing all Americans from the fear of rampant prices and bills. All must share in the productive work of this ’new beginning,’ and all must share in the bounty of a revitalized nation.”


2001-0000: Donald Rumsfeld / Mike Foster
Defeated:
Bill Clinton / Christopher Dodd

"In the wake of this unprecedented attack on the very idea of being American, I am authorizing the use of military force in Iraq and Syria.

May God bless us all."
 
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Japhy

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This isn't directed at Exitstencil alone but at the broader trend itself but people need to stop trying to boil down an entire administration into a single, out of context quote.
 
Turquoise Blue

Turquoise Blue

Japhy said:
This isn't directed at Exitstencil alone but at the broader trend itself but people need to stop trying to boil down an entire administration into a single, out of context quote.
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True. I mean, quotes are great to add to a list, but you need to explain what happened as well.
 

claybaskit

Gone Fishin'
1. John f.Kennedy. 1961_1969
2. Ricard NIxon 1969_1974
3. Bud Wilkinson. 1974_1977
4. Jimmy carter 1977_1981
5. Ronald Regan 1981_1985
6 John Glenn 1985-1993
7. Houston FLouney
1993-2001
8. Collin Powell
2001_2005
9. Lamar Alexander
2005-2009
10.
Kathleen kennedy

2009 _ 2017

John Kasich
2017-present



7.
 
Mumby

Mumby

Japhy said:
You know me Bob, I always have to love a list where the Conservatives join with the Liberals.

Also gotta love that relevant Communist party. Very French.
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The basic idea is that Attlee doesn't call a snap election in 1951, Labour enjoys the benefits of the 50s economic boom, and after implementing some of the left's radical proposals become a dominant centrist party in which the right occasionally breaks through. The hard left which would have been occupied by elements of the Labour Party in OTL are evacuated and the CPGB moves in. And as they grow in success, with the absence of another third party, the dominant Labour Party increasingly casts them as 'Red Tories'.
 
Turquoise Blue

Turquoise Blue

This was inspired by @Sabot Cat's thing about infrastructure in America that she did a year ago. I had it on my WIP thread for quite a while, and only now got around to fledging it out.

Basically it's a very, very dark dystopian thing that ends up with left-wing radicals just going "fuck it, kill them all".

Some bits might be somewhat implausible, including the creation of the Alliance Party.

Don't Fear the Reaper

Donald Trump (Republican) 2017-2021
2016: def. Hillary Clinton (Democratic)
The free trade consensus was toppled by the bombastic populist and businessman Donald Trump, who promised to "make America great again". Unfortunately for him, "Russiagate" sank his party's popularity and crippled it with a great swathe of Americans who felt they couldn't trust the Republicans ever again.

Declaring the impeachment allegations "fake", he announced his run for a second term, and lost handily to Cory Booker. However...

Cory Booker (Democratic) 2021-2025
2020: def. Donald Trump (Republican), Tulsi Gabbard (Independent)
Cory Booker wasn't a party uniter himself. Portrayed as a "neoliberal" by many Progressive-Left voters, he nevertheless won their votes, keeping Gabbard's independent run to below 10% and decisively defeating Trump. Here then, was the "permanent Democratic majority", as prophesied by demographics!

And then he pushed bills advocating financial deregulation, opposed proposed "mega-infrastructure" bills and heavily pushed co-operation with "moderate Republicans". The Green Party won three seats in the midterms and a failed primary challenge by Kamala Harris led to a walkout by many Progressive-Leftists to form the "Progressive-Green-Labor Alliance", commonly known as just the Alliance Party. The Democratic Party was clearly not going to propose radical solutions that was clearly needed for a crumbling America.

And thus began America's final and most unstable party system, one of the left-wing Alliance, centrist Democrats and right-wing Republicans.

Steve Bannon (Republican) 2025-2029
2024: def. Lucy Flores (Alliance), Cory Booker (Democratic)
Bannon was the last cry of the "Alt-Revolution", the white supremacists that rose to power with Donald Trump. Initially nominated as a sacrificial candidate, the Republicans' seemingly permanent 30-40 became a winning strategy in a three-way election, and despite Booker falling to Flores' advantage, Bannon won the election.

His presidency was a disaster, as an economic recession hit in 2026 and unemployment soared. The people rapidly turned against Bannon and the alt-right, with a #StopTheFash movement successfully targeting alt-right elected officials. The growing automisation of the economy became something Bannon grabbed on to on the campaign trail, arguing that he was the one advocating "keeping jobs, not giving it away to robots". It didn't help.

John Fetterman (Alliance) 2029-2033
2028: def. Joaquín Castro (Democratic), Steve Bannon (Republican)
In 2028, the unimaginable happened and a third-party won. Governor John Fetterman of Pennsylvania became the first Alliance president, and the party entered the Oval Office, hoping to implement plans such as universal basic income, universal healthcare and a sweeping infrastructure plan that would rejuvenate America, according to them. Unfortunately, the Democrats were sceptical of this, arguing for more moderate reform, such as a small rising of the minimum wage and "Obamacare Plus", and certainly no socialistic infrastructure plans, and the Republicans opposed all of it. In the midterms, the Alliance voters punished the party for "selling out", pushing them down to third place, a bad omen for the election, which did indeed push them down to third place behind the Democrats and Republicans.

Ivanka Trump (Republican) 2033-2037
2032: def. Emerson Spartz (Democratic), John Fetterman (Alliance)
Everybody expected Mark Zuckerberg to run, but in the end, another wealthy net-businessman did instead, Emerson Spartz. The Spartz campaign was campaigning on "returning hope to America", portraying Spartz as a "compassionate outsider" who could bring back the good times. Unfortunately, there was another outsider, one who took her father's playbook and refined it. The Ivanka Trump campaign was controversial, but in the end, she defeated the unpopular President and the net-billionaire who Americans couldn't actually trust.

Her presidency could be boiled down to two things "Like father, like daughter" and "ripping a plaster before the wound had time to heal". Repealing "Obamacare Plus" and implementing tax cuts for the wealthy, she maintained that the economy would heal as a result of this. Well, it didn't, and as once-booming cities started to rust, the people chose to vote her out by a slim margin.

Mark Zuckerberg (Democratic) 2037-2041
2036: def. Ivanka Trump (Republican), Jackie Lowe (Alliance)
Unfortunately, they chose to vote for Jackie Lowe of the Alliance Party, and they got Mark Zuckerberg of the Democratic Party, such was the peril of a three-way election. This illegitimacy would stain Zuckerberg's term with many calling him "Thirdberg" or other not-really-working puns related to his coming third in the popular vote.

Zuckerberg promised a return to "Obamacare Plus", hailing it as the perfect form of healthcare. Notable here is his belief in universal basic income, something he shared with the Alliance Party, but not his Democratic Party. Wasting political capital he attempted to push it through but faced strong resistance, and the Republicans filibustered "Obamacare Plus" until they couldn't breathe.

Entering the 2040 election, the crumbling of infrastructure became a major talking point, with many cities such as Chicago becoming slums - "people live in cardboard boxes in the shadow of former greatness" so said Governor Ty Afzal of Illinois. The Libertarian Party surprisingly nominated Robin Sweet, a libertarian-socialist who led the party to new heights in the American West.

Saira Blair (Republican) 2041-2045
2040: def. Ty Afzal (Alliance), Mark Zuckerberg (Democratic), Robin Sweet (Libertarian)
As the economy stagnated further and jobs continued being lost to cheaper countries or to robots, America entered a chaotic election pitting the "old parties" against the Alliance and the rising Libertarian Party. In the end, Saira Blair of West Virginia narrowly won thanks to Sweet taking more Alliance votes than she did Republican. Blair ran on a very conservative platform, the final triumph of the Christian Right over the Alt-Republicans.

As President, Blair pushed through the fourth dismantling of Obamacare ["I don't understand why the Democrats and Alliance continue to persist in pushing socialized medicine on to Americans"], set up the process of creating a national right-to-work amendment that would eventually be defeated by President Bloom and authorised the use of the Armed Forces to keep law and order in the increasingly-lawless cities. By 2044, homelessness was at a high and the Republicans were unpopular yet again, so the American people threw them out in favour of the Alliance, hoping that President Bloom would end the despair and suffering.

Laszlo Bloom (Alliance) 2045-2053
2044: def. Saira Blair (Republican), Mark Zuckerberg (Democratic)
2048: def. Emily Schwartz (Democratic), Penny Sinclair (Republican)
President Laszlo Bloom could be considered to be the only "successful" president in the Seventh Party System. Handily defeating President Blair and Zuckerberg's attempt at a nonconsecutive second term, he integrated the "Sweetist"-controlled Libertarian Party into the Alliance [in the process making the actual name "Alliance Party"] and successfully shepherded through Congress a program designed to give homeless people a new start in life. Negotiating with Democrats, a Bismarckian healthcare system seemed to be on the horizon but rebelling Alliance members doomed such an idea.

But even as cities became deserted necropoleis [nobody lives in Las Vegas those days] and global warming took its toil on America [Florida plummeted in electoral votes in the 2050 census], the President was confident of being the first president since Barack Obama to win a second term. After all, his presidency was an improvement on Blair and Zuckerberg, wasn't it?

Barely, the voters answered as they gave him a narrow victory, with Congresswoman Emily Schwartz coming close to defeating him. The Alliance's floor of voters became solid enough so that they could rely on at least coming second-place, forcing the "anti-socialist" voters to strategically vote to keep them out.

Barron Trump (Republican) 2053-2057
2052: def. Vicky Moore (Alliance), Harry Holder (Democratic)
"The Era of Stagnation", as people called the time of deserted cities, crumbling infrastructure, an ever-declining economy and people fleeing from flooding areas, seemed to never end and the people were quite angry at that. In 2052, they voted for another President Trump. Unlike Donald or Ivanka, Barron was not running a xenophobic campaign but instead ran one of blaming the Alliance and Democrats for the "Era of Stagnation". Claiming that he could return America to great days, he implemented what he dubbed "Barron-boosters", economic stimulants that he claimed would energise the economy back to recovery.

But it was too late. The circle of economic decline was already too strong and America already too unpalatable for investment from the wealthy global corporations. In desperation, Trump authorised a national educational plan - "America must be a land of educated workers, otherwise jobs won't return". To his credit, it did seem to be improving and some corporations did express interest in investing in American factories. Unfortunately, pushing a right-to-work amendment led to a general strike and violent crackdowns from Republican governors, which created bad publicity and doomed Trump's attempts to rejuvenate the economy, and also his re-election campaign.

Mikayla Rosenberg (Democratic) 2057-2061
2056: def. Zack Leonard (Alliance), Barron Trump (Republican)
By 2056, even the once mighty New York City was dominated by slums, with house prices becoming ridiculously high and unemployment at a record 20% ["actual" unemployment, including part-time jobs that fail to pay the bills, was at 45%]. The American people looked at Zack Leonard's revolutionary rhetoric that swept the primaries, and came close to voting for him...

And then they elected a Democrat. It was painfully clear that this was the last chance for the old "Big Two", as the Alliance won a strong plurality in Congress and controlled a majority of the Senate. Rosenberg was one of the last remnant of the middle-class in America [and Trump the "upper-class"], and so felt the economic squeeze more than anybody else.

You can't say she did not try to save America from the spiral of decline. Continuing Trump's attempts at tempting global corporations to invest into American factories, she also slashed tax for small businesses hoping to create a "business revolution" [that never materialised] and finally authorised an infrastructure plan [much to the Alliance's exasperation that it came way, way too late] that promised to build "ten million houses a year", "create new roads suitable for our age" and "make our cities suitable to live in again".

But the economic recovery she promised never happened, and despite successfully getting the Republican endorsement in a "National Unity" ticket, she lost.

Aria Moon (Alliance) 2061-20??
2060: def. Mikayla Rosenberg (National Unity), various (Independent Republican)
2064: unopposed
The fifty-fifth president of the United States, Arianne Nightingale Moon, is very much a creation of the crumbling America she grew up in. Her childhood was one full of broken hopes and dreams, and she grew up to be a deeply cynical being who had nothing but disdain and contempt for the Democrats, Republicans and "moderate" Alliancists. Her campaign did not hide her plans for a revolution. She outright stated that the United States would no longer have "bourgeois obstructionists" in it. Despite the National Unity ticket uniting the Democrats and Republicans opposing her, she won a majority of the popular vote [the first time this happened since Booker in 2020].

America's most left-wing president in history successfully formed a people's militia [the Alliance Party was already flirting with paramilitarism since Bloom, but under Moon it became an outright thing] during the campaign and with her victory, she declared that it was now time to "crush the saboteurs". With the Armed Forces severely weakened by outdated technology, a lack of funding and a dominant perception that they were merely a branch of the police, nothing to be proud of, the Battle of the District was a militia victory, and they successfully massacred the congresspeople who was in Congress for its opening [Pro-Moon Alliance ones were warned to stay away].

Democratic and Republican-controlled states declared this a violation of the Constitution and declared Rosenberg the lawfully-elected president instead. In the end, the tide was against them, and in 2064, America was now under an one-party dictatorship with the now-fully-authoritarian Alliance Party in charge. And Lady Liberty wept, for America has fallen.
 
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PachPachis

PachPachis

Turquoise Blue said:
This was inspired by @Sabot Cat's thing about infrastructure in America that she did a year ago. I had it on my WIP thread for quite a while, and only now got around to fledging it out.

Basically it's a very, very dark dystopian thing that ends up with left-wing radicals just going "fuck it, kill them all".

Some bits might be somewhat implausible, including the creation of the Alliance Party.

Don't Fear the Reaper
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It's a scary dystopia and all, but the whole thing really does strain credulity. You're right about the Alliance Party too, Booker being regular ol' center-left causing Progressives to go full Leninist is unlikely.
 
Turquoise Blue

Turquoise Blue

PachPachis said:
It's a scary dystopia and all, but the whole thing really does strain credulity. You're right about the Alliance Party too, Booker being regular ol' center-left causing Progressives to go full Leninist is unlikely.
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Now that's not a fair assessment. The Alliance Party started off as just a left-wing party comparable to Elizabeth Warren or Bernie Sanders. It's only as America radicalises and people grow angrier that they turn to *Leninism.
 
LtNOWIS

LtNOWIS

Turquoise Blue said:
This was inspired by @Sabot Cat's thing about infrastructure in America that she did a year ago. I had it on my WIP thread for quite a while, and only now got around to fledging it out.
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Regarding the end, you would think there would be some "rump states" of constitutional America, in like Hawaii, Puerto Rico, etc., assuming they're not completely ravaged by climate change. It seems like it would be hard for anyone to control the whole of America in a civil war like that, when the militia forces wouldn't have major power projection abilities. Of course this wouldn't happen in a vacuum, and the other powers in the Pacific would have a say on this as well.

But yeah, good timeline.
 

Loli American

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Boom Town

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List of Future Mayors of Seattle


Edward “Ed” Murray (Democratic Party) 2014-2018

With over a decade of experience in Olympia, Murray entered the Mayor's office to steady a careening ship. Leading the nation in job and population growth, Seattle was to be a world city, and a world city needed a grown up in charge. With the boisterous McGinn out, Murray set to shape the city in his image. The Tunnel proceeded, the Sweeps continued, the SPD was reformed. Neighborhood Councils were abolished, paving the way for developers to build up the new city. With a new transit network. And many, many new residents. Little did Murray know that Seattle would be having a new mayor so soon...


Jenny Durkan (Democratic Party) 2018-2021

With Mayor Murray's approval sky high, few expected a second straight mayor to fail to be re-elected. But then in early 2017, a scandal broke, with an article accusing the mayor of raping teenage boys. As allegations piled up, the Powers That Be began to view Murray as a liability. With the looming threat of McGinn taking back his office, Murray was pushed aside in favor of Jenny Durkan, the former US Attorney for Western Washington. With a relatively narrow victory of McGinn in the November run-off, Durkan vowed to continue the Mayor's pro-business, pro-growth progressivism.

And grow the city did. Unbending even in the face of the 2018 recession, the tech bubble continued to swell. As the Klondike rush had done more than a century before, the boom brought thousands of predominantly young, white men to the city, eager to claim their piece of the pie. Upzoning after upzoning was forced through, paving the way for new housing for these new Seattleites, with many of the old ones leaving the city or being forced to live on the street.

But the quiet consumption of the city came to a head in 2020, when President Trump was scheduled to visit Seattle during his re-election tour. The speech, set to occur at the Washington State Convention Center, never happened, with the President canceling his visit at the last moment. But outside the building, a riot ensued, the likes of which the city had not seen since the events surrounding the WTO. And when the dust had settled, five antifa had been gunned down by the SPD. Although few Seattleites sympathized with the political goals of the anarchists, the sloppy cover-up that followed would turn the city against its first female mayor.


Lorena González (Democratic Party) 2021-2026

Former Murray legal counsel and At-Large City Councilwoman Lorena González would be appointed to replace the embattled Durkan after her resignation. The daughter of Yakima Valley migrant workers, González became the new friendly face of the Seattle establishment, denouncing the re-elected President for his anti-immigrant rhetoric while failing to do anything about the increasingly violent ICE raids in south Seattle.

While during her re-election campaign she embraced the possibility of a city income tax to help pay for the stalled out Sound Transit projects, this ultimately would be set aside again before succumbing to the Seattle Process. Calls for further reform of the Seattle police were watered down to banning them from openly carrying grenade launchers using their fleet of tanks in residential neighborhoods.

And, despite everything, the city continued to grow, passing nine-hundred thousand residents during Mayor González's term. And the city grew increasingly tactful with its homeless sweeps, working with Sound Transit to transport most of the displaced population to more sanitary conditions on Vashon Island.

But all good things must come to an end, and the boom came to bust in the summer of 2026. Amazon was one of many tech companies ruined by the recession that year, and with it fell the city of Seattle. With nearly twenty-five percent of the city's adult population employed by Amazon, its sudden collapse and bankruptcy left tens of thousands of Seattleites jobless over a manner of months. Many, unable to afford their rents or student loan payments, were forced onto the streets. And when a kindly Seattle police officer came to offer them free transport to Vashon Island, many responded with raised middle fingers.

Nobody is quite sure how many perished in the months before the Second Seattle General Strike.


Kshama Sawant (People's Party of Seattle) 2026-2038

The People's Party was a broad coalition, ranging from socialists to greens to those just desperate for a roof over their head. Together, they steered the ship of Seattle during the Red Decade. And while Sawant, the long-time City Councilwoman was the spiritual leader of the movement, the truth is that the trots never quite became the vanguard they wanted to be.

While the City Council had little choice but to appoint the Indian-born socialist firebrand as Mayor, they felt little obligation to follow through with the bold proposals drawn up in late night Discord meeting by the Socialist Alternative Central Committee and espoused by Sawant before crowds of the cheering “broletariat”. But ultimately their resistance to these schemes proved fatal, with the People's Party sweeping the City Council elections of 2029.

“End Homelessness Forever” turned into brutalist high-rises, constructed throughout the city in the cheapest and most effective way possible. And while they were less ornate than the luxury condos demolished to make way for them, they succeeded in producing, for the first time in quite sometime, a housing surplus in Seattle. Progressives, idealists, and undocumented immigrants from around the country, eager to flee the less-than-enlightened Tebow Administration, set up shop in the city.

“Full Emploment Now” turned into the Seattle People's Corporation, a city-run, democratic tech startup, which soon became the fastest growing in the industry despite its strange and often counterintuitive business model. And for those who didn't want to work in tech, vast construction work was available. Once housing was complete, there were tunnels to be dug, and the resumption of light rail construction occurred after over a decade of delay.

But the most iconic thing of the Red Decade was the Seattle People's Militia --- the reformed Seattle Police Department. And while initially this was largely a continuation of before, the Militia soon swelled, offering an escape for Seattleites looking to avoid the confines of a tunnel or cubicle. Enforcement of the people's law became paramount. Small business owners, who, unlike their larger counterparts were unable to afford to relocate out of the city, were often terrorized and dragged into the People's Courts, charged with wage theft and employee abuse.


Benjamin “Macklemore” Haggerty (People's Party of Seattle) 2038

Many have speculated that she knew exactly what was going to happen. But when the increasingly white-haired Mayor Sawant made her announcement, few questioned the decision of the longest-serving mayor since Charles Royer to not run for another term, even as she took off for London in her private jet.

The succession to Sawant was a hard-fought battle, with two People's Party candidates emerging as the favorites. Long-time Sawant ally Nikita Oliver wrapped herself in the mayor's flag. But it was the long-since irrelevant rapper Ben Haggerty who emerged as the favorite, ultimately winning the election with the promise of bread, land, and bringing the Sonics back to Seattle.

He wouldn't get the chance. Shortly after taking office, Mayor Haggerty became privy to the true nature of his city's finances. Unable to secure a bail-out from Governor Habib, Haggerty resigned. The aborted attempt by the People's Militia failed to reinstate the Mayor, who announced he was retiring from politics and re-launching his music career with a scheduled concert at the Emerald Queen Casino.

The repo men had come to collect their due.


Chen Zhihong (China-U.S. Friendship Party) 2038-

On orders from their Beijing creditors, the People's Party-controlled City Council appointed right-wing DC-area economist Chen Zhihong as their new mayor, even as they vowed to resist the harshest of his proposed austerity measures.

But they failed.

The simple truth of the matter was that Seattle was broke. The People's Corporation was unprofitable, kept afloat solely by Chinese loans. The housing, which had been built so hastily, was increasingly in a state of disrepair. Seattle was going to fall again, and it was up to Chen and his team of technocrats to make sure that fall was as soft a landing as possible.

Soon after the new Mayor's plane touched down in Peter Taaffe International Airport, privatization began to ensue, with wealthy Chinese businessmen grabbing everything that wasn't nailed to the ground. Wages collapsed, inflation skyrocketed, and real estate was liquidated by the city. In a matter of months, nearly half of Seattle's population had fled across Lake Washington.

And the People's Militias were disbanded, with policing contracted out to a Hangzhou-based security firm along with its fleet of robotic officers. Vagrants were rounded up and sent to the recently-privatized Vashon Detention Facility.

As for the city itself, little remained of the Red Decade. The heart of the city, from Pike Place to Pioneer Square, was reconstructed exactly as it had been before --- though the streets lay quiet and lifeless aside from the occasional hum of a patrol drone. Outside the core, new tall glass buildings gleamed, as if to invite the exploiters of the world to re-establish themselves in the city. And little by little, they did, assured that the little anomalous era had been brought to an end.
 
InfernoMole

InfernoMole

Turquoise Blue said:
This was inspired by @Sabot Cat's thing about infrastructure in America that she did a year ago. I had it on my WIP thread for quite a while, and only now got around to fledging it out.

Basically it's a very, very dark dystopian thing that ends up with left-wing radicals just going "fuck it, kill them all".

Some bits might be somewhat implausible, including the creation of the Alliance Party.

Don't Fear the Reaper
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How wil Russia deal with the Alliancist dictatorship?
 
Rosa Luxemburg

Rosa Luxemburg

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