https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Brown’s_Body
I guess I respect some troops a bit
That is the other particular moment I think of too, had FDR lived a little longer, taken Wallace as his VP again. The labor movement was there and even a single administrations worth of goodwill towards the USSR could have produced a better reality. This runs parallel to Lincoln taking Butler as his VP (or I should say, Butler not refusing it) instead of the worst possible option in Johnson.
i wonder if any decent alt history books have been written about either of these two hinge points?
seems like most alt-history is written by shitlibs and chuds
Christman had a bonus episodes about Butler and Wallace on Hell of Presidents I’m pretty sure, and they go into it on Hinge Points as well. So very Chapo-y and I’d be interested in other, more typically “scholarly” perspectives too.
I don’t know if the serious types ever delve into alt-history, which would make sense if they didn’t, it’s all speculation and quickly becomes a wish fulfillment fantasy, at least when I do it in my musings. I guess actually it’s really sad I find it easier to imagine different pasts, and their consequent lost futures, than seeing much hope in this current world. Still mostly not a doomer though!
i wouldn’t mind some fiction just for escapism. escape the doomerism
kind of like reading the Years of Rice and Salt (aka the world where all the white people die in the 14th century)
