The New Century: A Parliament for The People

[GoTfan]

Damn, Teddy is opposition leader for twelve years and never PM. Sad.

What's Hillary up to?

I'm not sure. Maybe she's the Labor representative from AR-02?

Bernie?

[GoTfan]

I'm just sitting here waiting for Bernie to launch the Social Democrats

[GoTfan]

I'm just sitting here waiting for Bernie to launch the Social Democrats

Spoiler alert?

The American Revolutionary Front for the Advancement of the Worker's Struggle - acronym ought to be ARF or WS?

That sounds a little to Communistical for me.

[GoTfan]

I'm just sitting here waiting for Bernie to launch the Social Democrats

Spoiler alert?

The American Revolutionary Front for the Advancement of the Worker's Struggle - acronym ought to be ARF or WS?

That sounds a little to Communistical for me.

Well, Labor is already ascribed to the Old Left ideology, so, logically, Sanders, being to the left of the party, would be more Trotskyist than in real life. That's just what I'm thinking.

Socialist Workers' Party?

[GoTfan]

Does DC elect a full MP, or does it just elect a non-voting delegate like in RL?

[GoTfan]

Couple of questions: what do the states have Premiers? If so, who controls most of the legislative agenda for them? Finally, what role to the governors serve?

[GoTfan]

Couple of questions: what do the states have Premiers? If so, who controls most of the legislative agenda for them? Finally, what role to the governors serve?

So here's the thing: the Constitution only requires that states' governments are democratic. This means, ITTL, that some states choose to maintain their old governmental structures of state houses and an independent elected executive (the governor). ITTL, many small-c conservative states do this; example of KY and TX. Some states, however, reform their own constitutions after the St. Louis convention as well, becoming parliamentary systems, such as, for example, (initially) Vermont, Massachusetts and Maine, and later on, California, Hawaii, and New York. Premiers, however, rarely run for Parliament because it is seen as a step down, and often are already old enough that they do not build much seniority.

Interesting.