A Perfect Democracy: The World That Huey Made
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A perfect democracy can come close to looking like a dictatorship, a democracy in which the people are so satisfied they have no complaint.
A Perfect Democracy: The World That Huey Made is a visual timeline on AlternateHistory.com by MasterSanders that posits what would happen had the (in)famous Huey Long escaped his untimely demise, running as an independent candidate in the 1936 US elections. From there, the history of America and the wider world changes, both for better and worse.
The timeline can be found here.
Tropes used in A Perfect Democracy: The World That Huey Made include:
- Alternate History
- Allohistorical Allusion: Huey Long's policies are a combination of his actual Share the Wealth agenda and elements of Roosevelt's New Deal, largely taken to their logical conclusion. He also takes FDR's place becomes the longest-serving President in US history, with three consecutive terms from 1941 to 1953.
- Church of Happyology: Vulcanism, which is essentially a combination of Scientology, Star Trek and the Charles Manson cult. This is due to being founded by Gene Roddenberry.
- The Remnant: Namibia is the last holdout of the Third Reich, founded by SS forces under Heinrich Himmler and Reinhard Heydrich in 1955. Although it has all but thoroughly remoulded what had been South West Africa in their image, the Nazis still claim all of their old territory.