The Broken Republic

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SUZA 2022

I'M WITH HER

MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN

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(Also sorry for taking up this much space, I love these (quote) memes)

IT'S HAPPENING.

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A Profile in Labor: Mirei Song

December 11, 2021 -

With the election five months away, much of America is tuning into political news and literature. After overthrowing our theocratic suzerains, we are finally looking forward to the first truly democratic election since 1944.

President Suza Cameron dominates the polls and is looking forward to an easy election, but that doesn't mean she is the only candidate running. Unlike James Monroe, Cameron has lots of opponents who are not afraid to critique her policies or suggest different paths for our reborn country.

One of these opponents comes from Cameron's less socialist flank, but she is not a right-winger. She is Mirei Song, a labor organizer from Seattle who worked underground for many years during the revolution to support famished workers and their families. She has agreed to sit down with us for an interview, explaining her reasons for running, and why she thinks she's better suited to be President than anyone else.

Jon Setter, British journalist (JS) - Thank you so much for sitting down with us -

Mirei Song, candidate for President (MS) - Than you for having me.

JS- You're welcome, I look forward to this interview.

MS- Me too!

JS- To begin, can you just explain who you are, what you believe in, and why you are running for President in 2022?

MS- Well, Hi everyone watching. My name is Mirei Janet Song, and I was a labor union organizer and I helped out local unions in Washington state and California to recruit members, activists, and volunteers. Officially, I was the Chief of Staff to President Joan Goldberg of the Teachers' and Educators' Union of Washington, but I resigned this year to run for President.

JS- Very interesting. Did you ever have plans to be President of the TEUW?

MS- I did at times, sure - but mostly I was satisfied with the position I had, and I made a lot out of it. I worked - uh - essentially underground from the 1980s to 2018, because the government made all labor activities illegal in the sixties. I helped a lot of starving people, mostly workers, find well-paying jobs so they could put food on the table and not have to see their children die of starvation. It was absolutely illegal, but it was absolutely the most moral and right thing I have ever done and I absolutely would not do anything differently. The union in those years saved people, and I am glad I was apart of it.

JS - That's really, really heartfelt.

MS - Thank you. It was Hell to live. It truly was, no embellishment.

JS - When were you born?

MS - I was born on July 23, 1963, in Burien, Washington. Then it was known as New Jordan, after the government renamed it.

JS - What was it like growing up in America, and how were you treated?

MS - Well, I can't remember the first years, but I do remember when I was six, in about 1969, when my parents were realizing they might be stripped of their banking jobs by the government. See, even though the theocracy had been ruling, their worst laws and most discriminatory measures came about only around the early 1970s. And it was in 1969, or maybe 1970, that the banks were essentially forced to fire all people of color, non-christians, any minorities. It was horrid.

JS - And your parents were bankers?

MS - Well, not quite. They held the door open for people and sometimes helped the bankers. It was enough to get by in our apartment. I don't ever believed they liked the job, but it did help us eat. After they were fired, life really got miserable.

JS - How so?

MS - We lost our apartment once they got fired. The landlord threatened to hurt us if we hadn't vacated. So we did, I recall, and we moved around at least ten times in as many years. Anywhere that would accept us. It was tough for Asians then, a lot of times we were given dirty hovels to live in. My mother would get incredibly sick due to our living conditions, and - my god - it's so amazing how much we persevered.

JS - Are your parents still alive?

MS - Yes, both of them!

JS - Wow, that's great.

MS - My mother, Hanako, is 91, and my father, Chiharu, is 90. Of course, they had to have Anglo names back then. She was Hannah and he was Harry, easy to relate to their Japanese birth names.

JS - Did you have an Anglo name?

MS - Mira! I've ditched it though. I never liked it.

JS - When did you get involved with laborism, and why?

MS - Because of what I saw, growing up. Seeing people on the brink of annihilation, starving, sad, it was just horrific. Back then, labor had retreated underground, and it wasn't the same thing you see in Britain, France, or Brazil. It was more about providing strong support networks for workers and laborers, especially centered around part-time jobs and providing them work opportunities. It was around 1982 when I got involved. I skipped college at that time, since my only options were segregated schools that were routinely ignored by the government and given piecemeal funding. So I went into the underground labor movement in 1982, 1983, and I started as a typist. I helped process applications for people, and I would send these documents to my superiors, who would then send them secretly to friendly employers who would then give jobs to the applicants in fields the government wouldn't notice.

JS - Wow. Sounds glamorous in a way.

MS - It was, sure. We also did food drives and all sorts of charitable things. At the beginning, labor was mostly confined to giving the starving some sort of menial job support, however as time went on, we moved towards a system of crude bargaining, co-operating with employers on wages, focusing on long-term job security. As the government got weaker towards the Revolution, we became more brazen and hosting job fairs, parties, you know, fun stuff.

JS - Do you think you had an effect on people's lives?

MS - I sure hope so. I know many people I helped back then still have jobs. Their children, if they had any, are healthy and well-fed. So many friends were made, too. If I had no other impact, I'm glad I provided friendship for so many people.

JS - What are some of your political beliefs? Platforms?

MS - Well, thanks for asking, John. I'm definitely on the left end of the spectrum, but I don't like specific labels or buzzwords. I don't care for socialist, or capitalist, or social dems, I'm not gonna bother with that. I love laborism. I love leftism. I love the concept of a community, state, or government providing for the people, not out of begrudging necessity, but out of love and moral obligation. That's who I am.

JS - What do you feel about capitalism versus socialism?

MS - Whatever system has the least people in abject poverty, suffering, unemployment, and hunger, I'm for that economic system. With that said, capitalism has really ravaged parts of the country and the globe, in terms of neo-imperialism and globalization. But, look at Stalin or Mao. I mean, look at how many people died in famines and were purged - ugh - really just not pleasant. If anything, I'm someone who believes in the best of both worlds. Let's keep the right of property and a choice in what toothpaste or socks to buy, but let's not give our economy to corporations and the selected elite of society.

JS - Would you see that as a social democratic ideology?

MS - Sure! I never said I wasn't any of those things, but when it comes to this tribalistic nature of suckering onto labels and political identities, it just seems a little foolish to me.

JS - Do you think you'd make a good president?

MS - Yes. Absolutely.

JS - Why?

MS - Because, and this sounds morbid, I know what suffering is like. I know what it's like to see an evil theocracy throw its citizens to the wolves, and I know what it's like to be treated like chattel trash. I know the extent of selfish greed and how it ruined our country to the very core. With that, I know what goodness, humanity, and selflessness looks like. Those latter qualities have absolutely informed every ounce of my policies.

JS - What about parliamentary versus presidential systems?

MS - No more electoral college, first of all. It failed us in the forties and gave us festering white supremacy. I would definitely like to study parliamentarianism more, but I do like the concept of a more fair and equitable voting system. I don't like first past the post, I think we need to spend time implementing multi-member districts with proportional seat allocation.

JS - Interesting. Don't you think that's mightily similar to President Cameron's platform?

MS - If it is, it is. I'm not running to be the anti-Cameron, I'm running to be the pro-Song. I'm running on pro-labor and pro-equality. Cameron is great, and I'm not trying to center myself as the centrist or more lefty version of Cameron, but what she lacks is a career in unionism and helping out workers. She has the ideas, but let's ask ourselves, does she have the knowledge of labor? I think that's what we need here at this time, and that's why I'm running.

JS - Do you think Cameron is a bad president?

MS - Absolutely not. What I said is in no way to be interpreted as me slamming her or saying she is ignorant. Let's remember that she fled the country, and she dedicated her life to public service and overthrowing the theocracy. If she tried that here, she would have been beheaded, and she knows that. She is a total hero for what she did and continues to do.

JS - Well, I think that's all the time we have.

MS - Oh no!

JS - I do hope to catch up again later on, because you are a great conversationist.

MS - Thank you! I am glad I gave this interview.

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Gallup - Presidential Candidate Favorabilities - January 4, 2022

Do you have a positive or negative view of the following people:

President Suza Cameron

Positive - 93%

Negative - 6%

Don't Know/Undecided - 1%

Senator Kyra Welsh

Positive - 53%

Negative - 44%

Don't Know/Undecided - 3%

Senator Garrett Dillon

Positive - 50%

Negative - 48%

Don't Know/Undecided - 2%

Ms. Mirei Song

Positive - 52%

Negative - 35%

Don't Know/Undecided - 13%

Mrs. Helena Kingsley

Negative - 46%

Positive - 43%

Don't Know/Undecided - 11%

Mr. Jaremy Omid

Negative - 40%

Positive - 34%

Don't Know/Undecided - 26%

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Song is great, though I'm still endorsing Cameron! It's good to see some voices that understand the danger in radical leftism- I'm worried that there seem to be way too many in this TL's America who are ready to embrace radical socialism or outright communism. That'd be disastrous for this reborn country.

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OKLAHOMA LIBERATED

March 12, 2022 -

The United States military, with aid from the squadrons from federally-recognized tribes, has successfully liberated Tulsa and Oklahoma City, in effect driving out the remaining CRA forces from Oklahoma.

This comes as a stunning victory for the United States, as it allows for the future liberation of Kansas, and protects U.S. territory in Texas.

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Welcome to the First Presidential Debate in

White Plains, New York

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Please Welcome...

President Suza Cameron

Social Democrat

Senator Kyra Welsh

Socialist

Senator Garrett Dillon

Communist

Ms. Mirei Song

Workers' Emancipation Party

Mrs. Helena Kingsley

Moderate Laborist

Mr. Jaremy Omid

Centrist

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Highlights of the First Debate

On the Revolution...

Cameron: The revolution must be protected, and we must strive for a better society. But, if we're looking at the Bolsheviks or Jacobins, we must know our limits. In striving for justice after all these miserable years, we have to be fair. We can't throw people in jail on a whim, nor can we change society too much so quickly after overthrowing the theocracy. What I mean by that is that we can't, say, identify a low-level employee who said positive things about Hawthorne and then put him or her in jail. Much less execute them or seize their assets. It's just wrong.

Dillon: Well, I have to disagree with the President. There are two types of revolutions: One which simply changes the government or state, but leaves intact the social order and how we perceive ourselves fitting in that state or social order. The other type changes everything. It changes the state, the economy, the class system, and the very nature of our civil behaviour. I think the first type is simply inefficient and foolish for our country. We need to go hard or go home.

On Theocracy and the Dictatorship

Song: The theocracy, if it can even be called that, was truly devastating to this country. Millions dead, millions starved, and millions smashed under a cruel, polished black boot. We went from a country on the steps of global leadership to nothing more than a rump state. I wake up everyday thanking the powers that be that the brutality is finally over.

Welsh: While it's important to remember the cruelty of the dictatorship, it's important to remember why and how it sprung up. Economic instability brought about by unbridled capitalism. White supremacy peddled by Southern Democrats, lynch mobs, and ancestral slavers. And let's not forget that the U.S. government was fully complacent and practically allowed this dictatorship to be born.

Omid: Theocracy and religious governance has no place in this society. I am not ashamed to call myself an atheist, and I will never even dream of governing as a theocrat. We are a secular state, and we must commit ourselves to that nature. The pre-civil war leaders did not, and they were weak against the face of religious zealots and dogmatic people. It's time to recognize that the roots of the dictatorship were due to an incomplete separation of church and state in America. If we were such a secular state, why did we hate Jews, Catholics, and Muslims so much?

On the Future of America

Kingsley: We have to have an America where the common man is the prized, integral member of our society. We can't place our society in the hands of the elite, nor can we trust economists, social democrats, or communists, of all people, to direct the movie that is our lives. It's simply untenable to me that a communist, a self-declared communist -

Cameron: Now, hold on, Senator Dillon is -

Kingsley: A self-declared communist is telling us - is telling us how we should live our lives and structure our economy -

Dillon: I find it untenable that a wolf in sheep's clothing is telling us what a committed fighter she is for the working class -

Kinglsey: Oh please.

Dillon: What's your net worth again? What bank did you work at during the dictatorship? Wachovia?

Kingsley: If you're trying to imply that I'm a collaborator, then you best silence your mouth.

Dillon: Well, I'm going to ignore the gentlewoman from Louisiana and address the audience, since she has seemingly forfeit her speaking slot. The future of our country must be a future of socioeconomic equality and classlessness. We can no longer live in the shackles that landowners put us in, and we can no longer put bandages on the gushing wounds that capitalism has left us. As great as President Cameron, Senator Walsh, and Ms. Song are, there are wrong to suggest that the moneyed elite can be reasoned with, that capitalism is something we can tolerate. It can't be. We must abolish it and abolish it now. If the elite want to arm themselves and fight, so be it.

Omid: Let's not provoke something here -

Cameron: Waving off a violent struggle as a "so be it" type thing, is ridiculous and I thought Senator Dillon would know better. However, I want to take the time to tell everyone in the audience and on stage that telling a fellow debater to close his mouth is unacceptable.

Kingsley: You just heard him! He's a devout Red, what he's suggesting will plunge our nation back into a bloody mess and ruin our economy. It's foolish that he's even brought onto this stage.

Song: It is not foolish -

Kingsley: It is.

Song: We have to give everyone a right to voice their opinions and concerns about where we are headed. It doesn't matter if they're hard left, or totally centrist. Throwing them under the bus and telling them to shut up is gross and immature.

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Gallup - Presidential Candidate Favorabilities - April 17, 2022

Do you have a positive or negative view of the following people:

President Suza Cameron

Positive - 91%

Negative - 8%

Don't Know/Undecided - 1%

Ms. Mirei Song

Positive - 55%

Negative - 43%

Don't Know/Undecided - 2%

Senator Kyra Welsh

Positive - 51%

Negative - 47%

Don't Know/Undecided - 2%

Senator Garrett Dillon

Positive - 50%

Negative - 49%

Don't Know/Undecided - 1%

Mr. Jaremy Omid

Positive - 52%

Negative - 43%

Don't Know/Undecided - 5%

Mrs. Helena Kingsley

Negative - 58%

Positive - 39%

Don't Know/Undecided - 3%

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Lafayette, Louisiana - Afternoon of April 18, 2022

Helena Kingsley looked out the window of her office building and saw the gaggle of reporters in the rain-drenched streets. She scoffed and drew the curtains. Kingsley walked into an adjacent room where a camera was set up in front of a plushy chair. A few of her aides were standing behind the camera, while one piloted it. She sat down on the chair as the camera started filming.

"Hello everyone. These past few months have been incredibly fun, rewarding, and impactful. I never thought I would one day run for President, but I soon found myself embraced by a legion of passionate supporters and aides. When I announced my run, a run for President centered on moderation and protecting the common people of our country, I thought no one would come to my side, but boy was I wrong.

I was proven incorrect, since the outpouring of love and support I received from citizens of all walks of life told me that my cause was not lost. The people of this country want to uncover the middle-ground, the people want capitalism, the people want moderation. They don't want all this socialist and communist lingo emanating from their TV sets, but they do want change. A change in their paychecks for the better. A change in their housing markets for the more affordable. A change in their doctor's appointments for the cheaper and more easily accessible. A change in the markets for more competition and better returns. I will forever be advocating for that type of change.

However, this year is simply not the year. I will be suspending my presidential campaign and exiting the race. I have not made up my mind on who to endorse, but I will be sure it's someone who preaches the same values I do, and who believes in the same good fight I believe in. To my supporters: I won't let you down. I will always give you a voice, at a time when it seems the only voices are spoken by social democrats and hard leftists. I will never give up on you.

Go forward with the good fight, citizens and supporters, and know that I am at your side."

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Polls for the First Congressional District in the State of Indiana, April 21, 2022

Michael Sheridan (inc.)(Workers' Emancipation Party) - 30%

Sarina Boston (Social Democratic Party) - 28%

Viktorija Corgy (Communist Party) - 21%

Byzantino Laurens (Moderate Laborist Party) - 10%

Hyatt Corvin (Socialists' and Ecologists' Party) - 6%

Anne Sawyer (Centrist Party) - 3%

Don't Know/Undecided - 2%

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Polls for the Ninth Congressional District in the State of Illinois, April 18, 2022

Xavier Perez (Socialists' and Ecologists' Party) - 52.03%

John Fares (inc.)(Independent) - 45.83%

Don't Know/Undecided - 2.2%

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Polls for the Senate Election in the State of California, April 28, 2022

Matilda Schumer (inc.)(Social Democratic Party) - 50%

Elizabeth Carnley (Moderate Laborist Party) - 39%

Gerald Phillips (Workers' Emancipation Party) - 11%

Undecided/Don't Know - 2%

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Highlights of the Second and Third Debates

Suza Cameron lays out her plan to transition the US voting system into a multi-member, proportional, parliamentary system, ditching the current presidential, first-past-the-post system. Mirei Song endorses her plan, while Jaremy Omid rejects it. Kyra Welsh and Garrett Dillon also support it, but Dillon says that the ultimate goal is to abolish the state and make way for a classless, equal society.

On refugees, all candidates agree that refugees, especially from the CRA, are welcomed into the United States. However, Omid believes there should be a strict vetting system, while Cameron and Welsh believe there should be a more liberal system that places emphasis on families and family reunification. Dillon endorses refugee resettlement and integration as well as the gradual dissolution of borders.

On Capitalism vs. Socialism, Cameron lays out her plan for a social democratic economy where social justice and economic justice are linked and formerly discriminated groups are integrated into an economy that's regulated, fair, and not subject to predatory capitalistic private entities. Welsh calls for the gradual abolition to capitalism while Dillon calls for a revolution to abolish capitalism. Song endorses social democracy and states that a regulated socialized economy with a capitalist framework is the best economy for America. Omid believes that capitalism with only the most important regulations to prevent monopolies is the most desirable.

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ELECTION NIGHT 2022

6:00 PM

Social Democratic - Suza Cameron - 11 EVs

Too early to call - 8 EVs

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7:00PM

Social Democratic - Suza Cameron -63 EVs

Too early to call - 17 EVs

7:30 PM

Social Democratic - Suza Cameron -76 EVs

Too early to call - 55 EVs

8:00 PM

Social Democratic - Suza Cameron -230 EVs

Too early to call - 194 EVs

9:00 PM

Social Democratic - Suza Cameron -316 EVs

Too early to call - 96 EVs

CAMERON ELECTED PRESIDENT

10:00 PM

Social Democratic - Suza Cameron -396 EVs

Too early to call - 38 EVs

11:00 PM

Social Democratic - Suza Cameron -417 EVs

Too early to call - 91 EVs

11:30 PM

Social Democratic - Suza Cameron -481 EVs

Socialist - Kyra Welsh - 8 EVs

Too early to call - 19 EVs

11:56 PM

Social Democratic - Suza Cameron -481 EVs

Workers' Emancipation - Mirei Song - 12 EVs

Socialist - Kyra Welsh - 8 EVs

Too early to call - 7 EVs

12:16 AM

Social Democratic - Suza Cameron - 481 EVs

Workers' Emancipation - Mirei Song - 18 EVs

Socialist - Kyra Welsh - 8 EVs

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Second Place

Social Democratic - Suza Cameron

Socialist - Kyra Welsh

Workers' Emancipation - Mirei Song

Centrist - Jaremy Omid

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With that very rushed ending, I am happy to conclude The Broken Republic, and now look forward to soon writing the second chapter of this tale:

The Reborn Republic

Coming soon...

[America Needs R'hllor]

This was great! I'd probably support Cameron in this election because of the Theocracy's defeat, but as for my support/lack thereof of the candidates:

1. Song
2. Omid
3. Kingsley
4. Cameron
*Huge gap*
5. Welsh
*Colossal gap, communists are almost as bad as theocrats)*
6. Dillon

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Bravo!!!!!

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When are you planning on starting The Reborn Republic?

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When are you planning on starting The Reborn Republic?

I'm going to eventually finish up Fear and Fire and get started with Multiparty: A Mirrored America, then I'll start the Reborn Republic