46. Marion Gordon 'Pat' Robertson (1930-)
The septuagenarian televangelist from Virginia, Pat Robertson would lead the United States through World War Three and win the Cold War, before seeing the American system brought down to ruin.
Marion Gordon Robertson came from a conservative family in Virginia. His father was the conservative Democratic Senator Absalom Willis Robertson whom president Gruenther allegedly referred to the "Pox from Virginia," willing to fight for "a cause more lost than Amelia Earheart." His mother was a former beauty queen from Ohio.
Robertson was nicknamed Pat at an early age by his older brother who enjoyed patting him on cheeks. Having been cursed with an effeminate name, he opted to use the childhood nickname as friendly and folksy. Robertson excelled in college, getting a degree in history and later being one of the American troops sent to China during Byrnes administration. Robertson claimed he participated in combat despite no such mandate existing during the Byrnes years, pursuing litigation against all who claim otherwise. His two years in China apparently consisted of lounging around the kitchen, supplying the Chinese and Americans with alcohol, and chasing women. The issue was a thorny one as Robertson eventually forced the surviving army colleagues to flee the country during his years as president in retaliation for them publishing a book, Pat in the Back.
Robertson benefitted greatly from the influence of his father, pursuing law. He found God several times, first after meeting Dutch missionary Cornelius Vanderbergen and then after Barry Goldwater won. Robertson started an early evangelical empire, using family wealth and deregulation of broadcasting to great effect. Robertson was always involved in politics and is considered to be crucial for the election of Viguerie and Helms, praising them as true, honest men of faith. Robertson toyed with the idea of going into politics, although he refrained from running in 1988 due to his business running into difficulties. The lection of Harrington, a proud socialist and atheist, as the president sent Robertson into a renewed political and personal frenzy. He would later claim that was the third time he found God.
Although Harrington largely ignored constant attacks by Robertson on his network as irrelevant, Robertson started to dabble strongly into conspiracy theories linking Conyers and Harrington as the leftist conspiracy to destroy America and introduce satanic communism. Robertson was widely thought of as a popular figure who had no room to grow as Robertson. A possible kingmaker, but never the king.
Robertson pulled his weight behind Caan in a marriage of inconvenience. Caan allegedly nearly socked Robertson behind private doors after Caan offered his guidance to stop marital infidelity, although details of the incident vary. Robertson ran for the Republican nomination in 2000 and placed third. In 2004 he was far too popular due to his increasing media presence and years of experience shaping the conservative message.
Come election 2004 Robertson accepted playing second fiddle to the man who was known to snort cocaine off bodies of prostitutes. The McAfee - Robertson relationship was tenuous at best, with McAfee all but banning Robertson from approaching him after the election. Robertson was patient, claiming God has a plan for him, and readily accepted roles and tasks McAfee hated. When McAfee managed to kill himself in preparation for an alleged night with escorts, Robertson readily stepped up to the position of the president.
The McAfee administration managed to fire or put on notice nearly everyone while failing to fill many positions due to McAfee's mercurial and inattentive mood. Robertson came in with a base of followers and ready with lists of people loyal to his cause. 2005 saw the government filled with radically conservative Christians, appointed by fiat if Congress disagreed.
The Robertson administration proved to have a more far-reaching agenda than his predecessors, furthering and implement every plan Viguerie, Helms or Caan failed to do. Even his allies were surprised at the scope of the changes, believing Robertson to be a far more reasonable man who was equally driven by money as by religion. The rooms of the Republican party whispered that Robertson may have had another revelation and truly believed he is on a mission from God, forgoing his usual pragmatism. Robertson was a new man wearing the history of the old Part claimed his defenders. Critics believed Robertson only became what he always intended.
Oval Office was adorned with paintings of Jesus blessing the founding fathers and recent political figures. The Goldwater and Smith estates jointly continued trying to unsuccessfully remove the painting in question, believing both would recoil from Robertson. A large cross was placed on the White House and many of the traditional decorations depicting former American presidents were replaced with crosses and images of Jesus, Virgin Mary, and various biblical scenes. Only a few presidents escaped such treatment, like John Quincy Adams whose words about Christianity being indissolubly linked to the founding of America became crucial to the new administration claims it is returning to original America.
Robertson became (in)famous for conducting sermons from the White House Chapel (also known as the Viguerie room) broadcast every Sunday under the auspices of the presidential address. Critics compared Robertson to Turkey which had slid under the rule of populist imam Ekrem who had an entire channel dedicated to this. While most Americans ignored the sermons opting to hear the summary in the papers, European and other foreign politicians believed America is turning into a theocracy. Robertson has pushed America towards fundamentalism but outside of preaching, he was considerably less hands-on than the media had believed. Given his advanced age, he left running much of the government to his appointees, preferring to enjoy the media limelight and issue stubborn directives.
The government was filled by appointees considered to frequently be too fringe even for his media empire. Although some believed evangelists will replace the government, many of them did a worse thing and recommended people with little to no practical skill or experience. Prayer group organizers and community managers found themselves directing agriculture or trying to conduct diplomacy with countries they knew little outside of the Bible.
The education department, which over the year was recreated by Democrats and removed by Republicans, was reestablished with Robertson using it to mandate the teaching of Intelligent Design through enforcement of the "Caan Amendment." Secretary Eidsmoe spearheaded a dramatic change in direction. Theories of evolution and even cosmologies were reduced to an obligatory endnote. Abortion was depicted only as a ninth month operation with more quotes from religious authorities than statistics. Latin American Syndrome was taught as transmitted by condoms and biochemical contraception. The autism/depression-working mother theory was mandatory for all schools and universities relying on federal funding. Critical perspectives on slavery both emphasized Democrats having a major role in it as well as the benevolent salvation of poor African denizens from jungles. A new initiative on communication standards south to ban pornography, even aiming to deny licenses to cable channels that had any "immoral" programming. Network providers were forced to implement restrictions on data or face sharp fines or investigations.
Initially, the nation was shocked and protested, then saddled in bemused spectatorship amongst the chaos. Many of the Robertson appointees or allies seemed to die of old age before Robertson could use them. Others were considered senile such as Secretary Dornan. The is little evidence fellow evangelists such as Jerry Fallwell were seriously considered although they certainly were valued as allies. Evangelist Jim Baker was revealed to have fraudulently tried to sell positions in the new administration.
Despite miserable polling numbers, Robertson was insanely popular among his base, and two factors helped bolster his support. The first was Sterligov's aggressive behavior. The second was the road to free college degrees which many Americans saw as a possible bargain with the devil - surely Robertson would go the way of the Viguerie. Foreign scholars today believe Robertson was too unpopular, allowing his opposition to remain divided, being certain of their victory. The 2006 elections disappointed Democrat and Liberty party, resulting in minor changes in the Congress although dramatically reshuffling some of the incumbents in favor of the new evangelical or nationalist candidates. The Family Pledge, an idea concocted in the late eighties by a failed law student, grew over nineties into a significant conservative institution, tracking every candidate who had strayed from family values even a bit and publicly shaming them. Although they were marginalized during the Caan years, come 21st century they readily sabotaged Republican incumbents in the primaries for offenses as trivial as hanging out with liberal celebrities. The Family Guardians, as the newly minted representatives and even one senator, called themselves, averaged forty years in age, for many of them Goldwater and Smith a murky memory with Viguerie being the dark hero. More concerningly, Republicans effectively controlled 25 states.
The worst came in 2008 when two Supreme Court judges died. Filibuster rules were completely eliminated after Roy Moore's nomination faced rabid opposition, allowing Robertson a shocking amount of liberty in choosing appointees. "They are not fit for 20th century, much less 21st", lamented Nicholas Coppola on his show. The Supreme Court could not easily undo previous rulings, being forced to make loopholes for outright abuse. Robertson tried to declare homosexuality a disease but managed to only get promiscuity to be considered as valid criteria for potential risk, allowing a convenient loophole.
Various self-taught official espoused dubious policies. Particularly noteworthy is the endorsement of scholarship claiming Afroamericans are naturally inferior to other minorities since only "the most incapable" would be captured by slave traders while the more capable Africans would escape. Given the poor state of many of the African countries, this had particularly nasty implications with former president Conyers claiming the White House has "declared every seventh American a subhuman breed of subhuman" and distinguished Representative McLeland launching an impressive 42 points impeachment program and promised a new contract with America.
The White House was dramatically unpopular with Galtonian faction all but abandoning the Republican Party, horrified at the intrusion of civil rights. In fact, they launched investigations into president McAfee's death and tried to unseal records about the classified compounds found in his body. In return, Robertson "opened up" about McAfee's sinful tendencies causing Galtonians to start their own Freedom Party (since the Liberty Party already existed). Even the Mormons were concerned about the party. Despite copying some of the Utah policies, part of the administration was increasingly considering Mormons a sect that had to be dealt with. John Lithgow, the host of Hardpoints claimed: "Americans would never reelect the person who took away their pornography."
Scholars note that Robertson received covert support from agents as diverse the mafia and various entertainment organizations, delighted that the demand for immoral material had not dwindled but the price rose up. Democrats were also endorsed by Sterligov as the party "ready to listen to his proposals," a move that was either incredibly calculated or incredibly brash.
The two issues Robertson was strong on, came to prominence during 2008.
Sterligov tried to upstate the United States by attempting to launch a translunar mission through the conversion of one of the Soviet Union's shuttles. The Soviet Union, a newcomer to the space race, was indeed the top provider of spaceflight through the friendship twin cosmodromes maintained in Somalia with oil baron money. But the Soviet Union lacked a lunar module while the United States nearly landed on the Moon in 1976. and had pursued the project for decades waiting for funds to come in. Robertson promised to plant and colonize the Moon by the end of the decade. There was some confusion about the exact institution responsible. The USAF was more aligned to the Robertson administration but focused on satellites and orbital space. The young ASA had been founded only in 1981 by Conyers as an effort to have science exploration independent of military oversight but inherited access to the purloined Gabriel lunar program and many of the engineering and scientific talent
The USAF was wary of Robertson administration and noted it could adapt its orbital program to land a man by 2015 at best and only with the transfer of talent from the ASA. Since USAF leadership stood firmly behind their decision the Robertson administration had to turn to the civilian agency. The ASA was better equipped, having taken over the lunar exploration program, and more importantly, the scientific talent. The civilian agency inherited the pipe dream project of sending a mission to retrieve the Gabriel 10 spacecraft, using it as an excuse to secure the completion of the Freedom space station and pursue robotic lunar exploration. They even had completed a test for the new lander prototype owing to the Kardashian budget. The ASA was however led by liberals and atheists and refused the Robertson mandate to baptize the Moon (another Viguerie idea). Moreover, ASA fast-tracked an Afroamerican and a woman for the lunar landing, as a middle finger to the administration which had allowed alternative theories about the existence of the universe beyond the solar system to be taught in schools. The Robertson administration was forced with the ASA management threatening a collective resignation backed by 112 employees promising to do the same after it tried to pressure director Kerry to resign.
The ASA was promised independence and money as long as it could deliver a lunar landing. Robertson remembered Viguerie could never force the "damn eggheads" to do what they wanted and Smith's meddling was fatal for three Americans. Various pundits continued to claim ASA was dragging its feet to sabotage Robertson administration and deliver the Moon to the "Reds," out of spite or interest. Experts noted ASA was moving incredibly fast. The space race captured the mind of the nation with a manned lunar flyby successfully being completed just a month before the elections.
Another factor that renewed the conviction of the Robertson supporters was the discovery of the so-called Rice ring. The 2007 death of Annabelle Ryan, an up-and-coming actress, who had just appeared on CBS started a string of revelation no one expected. Ryan was found dead on the shore of New Jersey, but investigation revealed rape drugs present in her system, along with evidence of her being tied and bound. Forensic scientists determined the presence of sperm from at least three different men. The shocker came when camera footage revealed her body being removed by a friend of the CBS host William Cosby. The Cosby had organized a group rape of Ryan and the two other people turned out to be Alexander Wiener, a businessman noted for supporting Democrats, and Brian Wolf, an NBC reporter. Another surprise was that Michelle Clark, a television producer, was present during the rape and participated. Ryan was accidentally choked to death by Wiener and Cosby tried to organize a clumsy coverup. Despite an abundance of evidence, the Rice Ring (named after the codeword for sexual assault) of influential businessmen, politicians and other figures used connections and political pressure to stop the investigation, only implicating themselves in the long run.
Robertson's administration claimed victory in its combat against pornography and immoral values, launching attacks against Democrats of whom many were associated or part of the Rice Ring. The national outrage was fueled by the White House trying to implicate any opponent in the mess, including former president Kardashian. Some Democrats tried to do the same, but this backfired as it turned out former president Caan was "aware of it" and tried to shut down any person affiliated with it which was ironic given his own history.
The third and most decisive factor was decision by President-Chairman Sterligov to invade Iran in 2008, followed by the invasion of Afghanistan in 2009. Sterligov was possibly trying to link up with Iraq and drive oil prices in the process. Sterligov also never forgave Kosygin for allowing Iran to be pushed into perpetual civil war. Robertson responded by increasing support to Israel and American allies in the peninsula as well as renewing commitment to NATO and promising to guarantee the safety of European League (a position that was impressed on him by the JCS over his objections to limit it to governments not run by "secularists").
Even with all these factors in play, the 2008 elections were thought to be lost to Robertson. Once again, Democrats proved to be their own worst enemy. The Democrat nominee was Ohio senator Alan Keyes, a moderate Afro-American Democrat with a seemingly distinguished career who boasted of his tough policy towards the Soviet Union. Keyes became a convinced Democrat inspired by Conyers although evidence pointed to Keyes having meandered politically over the years. Notably, he was mentioned as the Liberty Party hopeful in 1992.
Keyes rode the wave of support on populist measures such a popular election of Supreme Court Justices and claiming he had a list of secret members of the Rice ring. Keyes also supported a flat tax proposal that was rejected by nearly every expert and supported mandatory minority quotas in the government. It would be an understatement Republicans were overjoyed with his nomination, even before he unraveled. His early lead in the polls came due to a fluke chance - the murdered Afro-American actress Annabelle Ryan had mentioned him as "a kind and wise man" having met him on a public event only days before her final public appearance.
Keyes had jokingly called her Democratic opponent, Senator Barbara Mikulski, possibly mentally handicapped. The Great Old Man of the Democratic Party, Congressman Mickey Leland, twisted every arm to try to get him to drop his nomination, appealing delegates not to vote on the color of his skin. Former president Conyers publicly denied knowing Keyes and Kardashian politely described him as a person who "erroneously gives the impression of competence".
Keyes managed to narrowly capture the Democratic nomination on the third ballot to the horror of the party. A series of journalists emotionally called upon Keyes to bid his time for another election, noting that the future of the world may be at stake.
Alan Keyes certainly tried to play the role of center-left moderate and unifier, but at the age of 24 television he easily came off the hinges. Keyes liberalism and smart Keynesianism came under doubt on the campaign trail, as they were incompatible with the mathematically impossible flat tax proposal. Keyes, who represented one of the pro-choice states, was friends with controversial reverend David Trosch, a former Catholic who favored the death penalty for abortion providers. His alleged support for homosexual rights came out as support for the mentally ill hedonists. Keyes also believed Mormons were a dangerous cult, had some doubts about the survivability of the Van Allen radiation belt (known as the Fantastic Four gaffe) and promised to posthumously sentence former president Harrington for treason. Keyes choice of running mate, Senator John Edwards did not help as it turned out Edwards was a prominent member of the Rice Ring in Washington. Edwards would be questioned (and eventually sentenced to jail) for two counts of rape.
Even then Robertson had a hard time winning reelection. Both Liberty and Freedom party captured 7% of the vote amidst calls of unity against the "crazy man" and Jay Bybee won Utah, resulting in both Keyes and Robertson without an electoral majority. The public called for electors to throw the election to Keyes and Bybee refused to endorse anyone. There were four faithless electors - one of them threw the vote to the Democrats, but one of them balanced it by throwing the vote to Robertson (the remaining two voted for Bybee and one for vice-president Allen West).
Robertson's second term was fraught with tensions. Galtonists split the vote in many races leading to large gains for Democrats, but Liberty party also captured impressive 35 seats in the House, which combined with Freedom seats meant the Congress had a significant third party representation. Robertson administration was forced on the defensive, relying on temporary acting appointees and the Supreme Court to maintain their agenda. Concerningly, several state legislatures openly defied federal government citing precedents established during Conyers and Harrington years. Violent incidents escalated with veterans returning to Washington D.C. "to safeguard the Republic" reoccupying various public spaces with the support of the Robertson administration. Former president Kardashian was shot by a veteran who had been a fanatic supporter of Robertson, while former president Conyers withdrew from public life to a friend's farm, following an incident trying to calm down anti-police protests following a violent bombing attack against a Florida police station.
"What differs socialists and liberals is that the liberal will never risk being considered unpatriotic," Robertson was known to have said in 1993. Warnings from the "atheist" European League were ignored as the White House openly considered forcing the UN to move to Germany, an idea first considered during Viguerie. Only the staunch opposition of New York prevented that although United Nations moved many of its operations to the city of Neu Nürnberg.
Robertson would enjoy the favorable circumstances of continuing confrontation with Sterligov while the Democratic Party started to devour itself. The Democratic Party had reinvented itself over its existence, but Alan Keyes's nomination over the near-unanimous opposition of the party leadership brought a crisis upfront. There were longstanding grudges ever since McLeland had Harrington elected, with many older Democrats believing the eighties permanently lost them the white working class. A proposed reform, limiting the influence of delegates won through open primaries, caused a public crisis in the party. Keyes left the Democrats for the Liberty Party with all his baggage. One pundit noted that the Republicans had become the party of evangelic nationalists while Democrats became the party of passing trends with no permanent identity since Gruenther. A twenty-two-year-old Stanford student launched her Refounding Movement directly after Keyes left the party, a movement that would apparently lead to the end of America as we know it.
Foreign diplomats noted that the second Robertson administration moved from pushing various evangelicals to promoting various tough military and policemen. A massive expansion of domestic intelligence network passed after a Soviet spy ring was uncovered in 2009 was overshadowed by the American flag being planted on another body. The great occasion was immediately ruined by Robertson blabbing on a running mike why ASA had not chosen a white American as the first person to walk on the Moon. Robertson also complained of Alan Crews not mentioning God in his landing speech although Crews had mentioned "providence of God" during his transmission preceding lunar injection.
The most vexing question was the relationship between Robertson and Sterligov. Even Kardashian made erroneous assumptions about the personality of Sterligov, but many believe Robertson purposely enabled Sterligov to ramp up support for his agenda. Robertson praised Sterligov as a believer after the President-Chairman replaced the bust of Lenin with a lavish Christ figure. The French president Mohed Altrad would famously declare in 2011 than no one could believe "the Third World War will be fought between two Christian fanatics," a sentiment which although widely shared, gave too much credence to Sterligov. Democrats claimed Robertson's free tuition for select federal and state universities was "Sterlignomics," an accusation with no credibility given the long history of free education in communist countries.
The proxy wars in Iran and Afghanistan intensified as military buildup continued in the Middle East. A crisis emerged in 2009 after it was leaked Robertson tried to persuade Israel to invade Syria and Iraq, promising to recognize its gains and even push for ceding of the UN mandate over Suez to Israel, believing Israel is inserted into fulfilling an alleged Biblical promise. The United States had shielded Israel occupation of New Palestine and Robertson now offered to recognize is as a part of Israel. The move, unsupported for the JCS led to America losing the support of its Arab allies while only destabilizing Israel.
Pakistan independently invaded Afghanistan in late 2009 which prompted India to occupy most of the Kashmir Republic. Second Korean-Japanese Naval war started in 2010, this time complicated with Korea being allied with the Soviet Union. China supported rebellions in Manju and Tibet while border incidents with the Soviet Union multiplied. The disastrous campaigns in Iran and Afghanistan strained the Soviet economy which lost most of its income after America took over previous fossil fuel exports to Europe. An alleged coup in Iraq was prevented by the Soviet presence, which noted the country wanted to abandon the risky alliance with the Soviet Union having grown rich in exports to India. An uprising in Poland revived the spirit of the 1968 revolution and removed the pro-soviet dictatorship forcing Sterligov to occupy Poland like during the days of the Warsaw Pact. Germany and Sweden joined the European Command fearing an invasion by the increasingly unbalanced Sterligov.
Robertson publicly condemned Sterligov as a madman an a liar, concerningly drawing parallels with Antichrist and passages about a northern empire from the Apocalypse section of the Bible. In September of 2011 Soviet jets shot down two of American jets patrolling over the international area of the Black sea leading to American planes shooting down two of the Soviet ones. DEFCON 2 was on, people raided stores for food and a planned draft was in place (over objections of JCS). Robertson publicly claimed in November of 2011 he would finish Goldwater's work and win the Cold War, a mentality echoed by Sterligov across the ocean out of desperation. The various attempts at peace mediation failed. Soviet fighters shot at American and British planes in January of 2012, and a similar thing happened near Bering sea a few weeks later. In February it would be American planes that violated Romanian airspace and in April American and Soviet submarines apparently fired warning shots at each other in Artic, a description of the incident that was deemed highly unlikely.
The world was constantly bouncing towards DEFCON 2 with president Robertson aggravating Sterligov through his Sunday sermons. Millions fell prey to the theory Mayans predicted a nuclear exchange and the economy struggled as consumer consumption entered the apocalyptic boom-boost cycle with people splurging on short term gratification crisscrossed with survivalism. Sale of various luxuries collapsed between 2011-2012 while a minority tried to speculate and corner the market regardless of the outcome of the war. The sharp rise in the value of gold and the Swiss franc caused a savings crisis all over the world, hitting Europe especially hard. The Long Recession turned into Depression. The only saving grace was the Soviet Union was hit the hardest.
Impeachment proceeding against president Robertson was introduced during the summer of 2012, based on the abuse of power. It is speculated that the JCS and Republicans covertly conspired to remove Robertson from power after the cabinet failed to reach the consensus needed to declare Robertson unfit for office under the Constitution. Whispers circulated that Robertson is willing to see this to the end and was increasingly pushing for a direct military attack on the Soviet Union, possibly even a nuclear first strike. Robertson supporters claim the president wanted to sit out the Soviet Union until its collapse, and they would be proven correct.
President-Chairman Sterligov was faced with the complete collapse of the Soviet Union. Korea was facing a combined attack by Japan and China, Iran was in chaos and Poland was in flames. His own military command was planning a coup ever since rumors spread Sterligov wanted to annex irksome Poland, a move that even Beria abandoned as foolish. Sterligov gambled on the superweapon gambit. Believing that America would back down just as Hitler killed himself after the nuclear bombing of Dresden ürnberg, Sterligov approved the Cosmostorm.
Cosmostorm was an improvised attempt to modify the aging Nauk space station into a starting point of collision of orbital objects. Sterligov had looked for a previous superweapon for the Soviet Union for decades. He had shown great interest in bioweapons despite them having been discredited by Lysenko. Sterligov may have honestly believed LAS was an American bioweapon but abandoned interest it during Ivanov years. During the nineties, Sterligov's favorite proposal was to crack the planet's crust with superbombs and cause a supervolcano eruption (the issue is sometimes conflated with the purported plan to force a supereruption of the Yellowstone). Finally, Sterligov took a particular interest in space-based weapons, including a theory that a cascade in space debris could make Earth orbit too dangerous for space launches. The plan was approved in 2009, possibly as a response to the failure of the Soviet space program to reach the Moon (which surprised no one but Sterligov and his sycophants).
On October 23rd, 2012, a detonation in low orbit (sometimes called "the Sterligov grapeshot") expelled a drastic amount of debris in the orbit. The abandoned international space station Unity suffered damage and hundreds of satellites were destroyed including an unknown amount of military satellites. Within hours, the 82-year-old Pat Robertson addressed the American nation and threatened the Soviet Union with war. Unless Sterligov resigned and the Soviet Union sued for peace, America would launch a first strike, backed by the "righteous fury of the free nations of the world."
Even today it is unknown what actually happened in America. According to one version of events, Robertson was presented with a nuclear retaliation by the JCS which believed a nuclear attack is in progress. Robertson believed God is shielding America. According to another version, Robertson himself wanted to launch a full nuclear strike, believing the "north of Megiddo" passage from the Bible referred to the low orbit explosion but was opposed by the JCS which had contacted by its Soviet counterparts.
Sterligov was arrested by the combined forces of the presidential guard, Moscow garrison and the special forces on October 24th and the Soviet Union declared a unilateral halt to hostilities, withdrawals from Poland and Romania, termination of agreements with Korea, Iraq, Yemen and a host of other countries and Sterligov being placed under arrest for abuse of power and "terrorism." President Robertson took to the nation and declared a miracle, declaring victory in the retroactively declared Third World War (considered now to have started either in 2008 with the invasion of Iran in 2011 with the Black sea incident). The Soviet flag official went down the flag pole for the last time on December 31st.
Robertson was shocked when the Republicans lost the 2012 elections (postponed for December due to fears of war). His vice-president, Allen West, did not manage to pass 100 electoral votes. America had finally won over communism. How could this be? Over the next several days Robertson considered his options before deciding this must be a secret plan by the communists to defeat America. In an ill-fated effort, Robertson a dressed the nation expressing his concerns, citing passages from the Bible and called for Christians to arm themselves and defend against the forces of the Antichrist which had used satanic influence and secret voting to steal the election.
For the first two hours, the reaction of America and the worlds were just flat-out what.
The outgoing American president had just committed numerous acts of treason including calling for a downfall of a republic and possibly calling for a nuclear war, merely weeks after the Cold war ended after a confrontation that destroyed the world economy and caused millions to flee their homes. The military and the cabinet immediately rallied around vice-president Allen West. About 86 minutes after the broadcast, president Robertson was declared medically unfit and taken for medical care under provisions of the 22nd amendment and an express Supreme Court ruling.
A medical examination later determined president Robertson suffered from lapses in memory and had a psychotic break. Robertson had been commanded to psychiatric care where he remains today. His declaration caused about two million Americans to barricade their homes, the number possibly being more but undistinguishable due to the Cosmostorm panic. Some of the most devout believers shot at their neighbors, policemen, or soldiers while awaiting the Rapture on their roofs. It was 2012 and it was Christmas after all? In other cases, Americans known for their devoutness were preemptively attacked by their neighbors fearing they will come for them first. Most of other evangelists in America publicly called for peace and media immediately broadcast the theory that the presidential Sunday address has been hijacked by terrorists or possible Soviet agents.
President West allegedly called Robertson the greatest bastard in history. Even the Soviet provisional government panicked, believing they will face an immediate nuclear attack, and they were not the only ones. There was an alarm in China, Japan, even France, and Britain.