Brandon's Impotent Rage
17th October 2014, 22:47
From alternatehistory.com: An alternate history timeline of a socialist USA.
(http://fools-gold.org/aaron/reds/)
As with all alternate history,there's a point of divergence from our history to this alternate scenario.
In this world, William McKinley was not assassinated because his assassin (Leon Czolgosz) was caught before he could carry out his action. Because of this, the Progressive Republican Teddy Roosevelt (the militant Trust Buster and Conservationist) never becomes president, making Progressive reformers more marginalized in mainstream politics.
This sets off a chain of events that culminate in a bloody socialist revolution in 1933. The result is an (eventually) multi-party Union of American Socialist Republics (yes, Canada is in there to). Things aren't perfect right off the bat (it still has to deal with things like Segregation). But there's also a major liberalization of sexual mores fairly early on (starting in the 1930s).
I will admit that there are some parts that require some minor leaps of faith....for example: it requires that old blood n' guts himself, Gen. George S. Patton, is so horrified by his experiences in the trenches of The Great War that he becomes a hardcore socialist and leads the Bonus Army in the revolution, instead of in our timeline where he was part of the detachment that fired at the Bonus Army.
Either way, the history it depicts is interesting.....one I kinda wished had actually happened.
(http://fools-gold.org/aaron/reds/)
As with all alternate history,there's a point of divergence from our history to this alternate scenario.
In this world, William McKinley was not assassinated because his assassin (Leon Czolgosz) was caught before he could carry out his action. Because of this, the Progressive Republican Teddy Roosevelt (the militant Trust Buster and Conservationist) never becomes president, making Progressive reformers more marginalized in mainstream politics.
This sets off a chain of events that culminate in a bloody socialist revolution in 1933. The result is an (eventually) multi-party Union of American Socialist Republics (yes, Canada is in there to). Things aren't perfect right off the bat (it still has to deal with things like Segregation). But there's also a major liberalization of sexual mores fairly early on (starting in the 1930s).
I will admit that there are some parts that require some minor leaps of faith....for example: it requires that old blood n' guts himself, Gen. George S. Patton, is so horrified by his experiences in the trenches of The Great War that he becomes a hardcore socialist and leads the Bonus Army in the revolution, instead of in our timeline where he was part of the detachment that fired at the Bonus Army.
Either way, the history it depicts is interesting.....one I kinda wished had actually happened.