Prelude: Learn the History and Watch the Events Unfold

Prelude: Learn the History and Watch the Events Unfold

            After years of trying to take over the Republican party and trying to win elections only to lose when it counted, right wing politicians and activists left the Republican party and formed a new political party that they could control. They named it the Party for Perpetual Peace.

            The Peace party began to win elections, and win them a lot. They eventually tossed aside their former comrades the Republicans and became the second major political party. After losing a presidential election year where the Democratic Party won the president and majorities in both the House and Senate, the Peace party needed a fresh start. They added to their name and became known as the People’s Party for Perpetual Peace. They began touting themselves as a party for the people of the country, and a party that wanted to keep the country in a state of peace and stability. With their new message the party won the next mid-term elections, taking control of the House and Senate. Once installed as the new majority party, they began the process of undermining the sitting Democratic president.

Eventually they found a way to try to impeach the president. The Peace party held the President and Vice President on charges of treason. The charges steamed from leaked information about a supposed gun trade operation lead by the executive branch. The operation included the selling of guns to Mexican crime syndicates in order to try to track them and capture any criminals. During one of the syndicates drug runs into the US, two border patrol officers and a DEA agent were killed. The guns used to kill the government agents were linked back to those that were sold during the gun trade. The Peace Party used this information to claim treason against the Executive branch saying they sold weapons that were used to kill US government employees. The Peace Party led House easily won the vote to impeach. And after a long a hard fought trial, the Senate voted in favor of conviction and removal from office of the President and the VP.

After removing the top two executives, the line of Succession led to the Speaker of the House, Peace Party leader Richard Smith. Smith was a hard line Peace party member. He was favored by other people in the party, but had lost during his attempts at winning the presidency during elections as US voters saw him as too radical in his positions. But now this politician that voters deemed too radical was now President of the US thanks to Washington politicians. After taking the oath of office, President Smith began his purge of the former president’s cabinet. He removed any cabinet secretary with ties to the Democratic Party and replaced them with his closest confidants in the Peace party.

News reports came to light that maybe the executive run gun operation did not go as had been reported by the Peace Party. Reports showed that the man who “blew the whistle” on the gun operation had links back to the Peace Party. It showed that he was not acting on orders from the Federal government, but was in fact working on his own using government weapons to make a profit on the black market. When the guns that he sold had come back linked to the ones that he sold, his former employer (now a Representative from Texas) paid him more money in order to lie and say he was working on orders from the Federal government. The Peace Party was obviously not too happy with these news reports and used their newly created propaganda machine to suppress the news reports that they found unfavorable.

Following their removal from the executive branch, the Democratic Party split into two parties: The Radical Democratic Party and the Progressive Action Party. The Radical Dems found their power base in the northeast, the traditional power region for the Democratic Party. The Progressives held the power in the Western states, such as California, Oregon, and Washington. The Republican Party continued to exist, but severely limited in their power. The Republican Party has been reduced to nothing more than a puppet power for the more powerful Peace Party. Republicans held power and majorities in Big Sky states such as Montana and the Dakotas. The Peace party drew the majority of their support from the Southern States with Texas as a major player within the party.

As soon as they had taken control of the executive branch, the Peace Party continued to consolidate their power within the Federal Government. They began by trying to pass a law that would change the number of years constitutes a term in the House of Representatives. The Peace Party led House passed the bill that would change a House term from 2 years to 4 years with elections to be held during presidential election years. The Senate was still led by a Democratic Majority Caucus created by the two remnant of the old Democratic Party, and as could be easily expected the Democratic Caucus voted against and defeated the Peace Party led House bill.

The Peace Party did not take this sitting down. They quickly rallied in the states where they held power. The exploited a clause in the Constitutional that allowed for the States to called upon a Constitutional Convention. 35 states joined in the call for the Convention. The other 15 states boycotted the Convention out of protest, citing it as avoiding working with an elected legislative body. With 15 States boycotting, the Convention became little more than a formality. The 35 participating States, which were led either by the Peace Party or by their puppets in the Republican Party, voted in favor of ratification of a Constitutional amendment which would change the elected term for the House of Representatives from 2 years to 4 years. This amendment tied the House elections to the Presidential elections and allowed for the House to more closely work for the president and for a longer period of time. While the some states were boycotting, the rest of states used the Convention to slip in another clause in the amendment. They sought a way to reduce the influence and power of the larger populated left-wing states like California and New York. So they added another election reform. They changed the election of the House from direct district by district elections to a nationwide proportional voting system. Under this system, the whole country voted in the same election and voted only for which party they preferred. Seats in the House would be allocated based on the percentage of votes they received in the election, and the parties would be ones who chose which politicians got to sit in those seats. This greatly cut the power of the Progressives from California and the Radical Dems from New York. Before the “reforms” they received the most and 3^rd most seats in the House and now the Peace Party was able to give politicians from the South the majority of their seats. With the end of the Convention came the passage of the 28^th Amendment.

During the Presidential election cycle, the Peace Party solidified its place as the power party in DC. President Smith was re-elected as president, with electoral voting going along the lines of the 35/15 split from the Constitutional Convention. The election cycle also swept the Peace Party into power with 2/3^rd majorities in both the House and the newly won Senate. On their first official day in session, the new Peace Congress surprised the entire nation by passing a radical law. They easily passed the law through both Chambers of Congress. The law allowed President Smith to remain president and not have to face re-election until he “retires.”

California immediately sued the federal government, calling the new law unconstitutional. The case was immediately sent to the US Supreme Court. After a quick deliberation (quick by SCOTUS standards), the Supreme Court ruled the law to be unconstitutional and an overstepping of power by the Peace Congress by a 5-4 vote. The vote went down the lines of Justices that were put there by Democrat and Republican presidents of past. This expectantly sent the whole Peace Party into a heated rage. The leaders of the Party began to think of way to circumvent the Supreme Court, and did so by passing yet another Constitutional Amendment. They were now able to do so after gaining the 2/3 super majority in both Congress chambers.

The Peace Congress passed the 29^th Amendment to allow the President of the United States to serve until his retirement. The Supreme Court attempted to step in an act in the capacity of a Constitutional Court (using the excuse that there wasn’t one to do so). They attempted to rule that the 29^th Amendment was not line with the intention of the original founding document and diminished the separation of powers as defined by the Founding Fathers. The Peace Congress jumped on this and immediately began saying that SCOTUS had overstep their constitutional powers by naming themselves a constitutional court. They immediately created an impeachment trial for all 9 justices (Democrat and Republican nominees alike) on the grounds of constitutional violations. They quickly were able to go through and win the impeachment of the entire Supreme Court. Now with 9 vacancies, President Smith was able to nominate his own justices for those positions. He filled the positions with Judges from within the Peace Party and with clear political strings tying them to current members of the Congress (one of them was actually an elected member of the Senate who resigned to take the Supreme Court post, and the new Chief Justice was the sitting Attorney General). Their confirmation was merely a formality as the Peace party had the clear supermajorities in Congress.

After what they view as a Kangaroo court proceedings politicians from the left-wing (Radical Dems and Progressives) began to drift away from Federal politics. Many of the top politicians from both parties return to their respective states to focus on running the State and increasing their state’s power. With the top leftist politicians gone from Washington, the Presidency in solid hands, supermajorities in both chambers of Congress, and now the entire Supreme Court in their hands, the Peace Party and President Smith had finally accomplished their goal of solidifying their power and strangle hold over federal politics. President Smith held the power and California was left to sit back and watch events unfold.