Five Decades of Fear & Loathing

[Another Middling Leftist]

“LaRouche & The New American Fascist Movement., 1989“

Well that seems troubling. Red Fascism being a movement in the 80s?

[Another Middling Leftist]

Will the part from the original timeline where in October 1979 the

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nuclear bombings of Kwangsi and Lop Nur

 still be intact?

[Another Middling Leftist]

Well it looks like the 1980 Democratic Convention is going to be an absolute cluster****. Three brokered conventions in a row is not good for the party and there will probably be reforms to the process if this keeps coming up.

[Another Middling Leftist]

This is going to be a doozy.

[Another Middling Leftist]

If TTL's 80s will be Democrat dominated like how OTL's GOP, then who might be the next GOP president if they don't come until at least 1988-1992? The bigger question is how the "Fear and Loathing" will fit in the later years without Rumsfeld, since the TL was more "chaos and dystopian" than OTL.

[Another Middling Leftist]

You have stated that the "five decades of fear & loathing" will be more of a controlled sense of chaos than the original TL. I wonder if TTL 2022 will look anything like the OTL 1973 movie Soylent Green!

So America in a extremely worse state?

[Another Middling Leftist]

You have stated that the "five decades of fear & loathing" will be more of a controlled sense of chaos than the original TL. I wonder if TTL 2022 will look anything like the OTL 1973 movie Soylent Green!

So America in a extremely worse state?

No. America is closer to OTL, just more polarized, poorer, and subject to frequent international crises. Our democracy and the union itself survives, but I’d rather live in our America than the America I imagine at the end of the story.

Like how much more polarized? America has been thoroughly polarized throughout the years.

[Another Middling Leftist]

So the TL has effectively ended at June 1981. What do you think might happen in the next few years in this TL?