Miscellaneous, Non-Frivolous ASB Ideas

Good question. Before the Russo-Japanese War works--more specifically, shortly after his coronation in May 1896.

True. Not only am I hoping that allows Russia to avoid the Bolshevik Revolution and its eventual fall to communism as follows, but I’m also wondering if liberalization would prompt more economic growth and development.

Granted, I’m aware that OTL Tsarist Russia was probably still industrializing more than most would think. However, it was nowhere near the Capitalist West until Soviet modernization efforts took hold—though there may have been better, less destructive ways to get comparable results in hindsight.

I proposed this match-up once earlier, but much more briefly than is true now: ‘1944 FDR Vs. 1984 Ronald Reagan’ in yet another cross-time presidential election. For this scenario, the 1984 Western US gets sent forty years back in time to January 1st, 1944 or thereabouts. And, hopefully, the two Americas agree to hold an election on schedule.

Personally, I can see a GOP icon who rails against big government like Reagan making quite a foil for the progressive, New-Dealer Roosevelt as they spar over policy and battle for the title of most charismatic, leadership-worthy candidate in the eyes of the American people. This may be less so with Generation X folks and Baby Boomers, but I can see uptimer members of the Greatest, Silent and probably also Lost Generation being more divided in their support for either Reagan or Roosevelt; they likely have found memories of him and last reverence of FDR as the decisive, oratorically gifted wartime leader who led America to a lasting victory, after all.

Unfortunately, FDR is also plagued by health issues that have since become public knowledge in 1980-something, which may reduce his support amongst downtimers as well. Policy-wise, I wonder if he may be too economically progressive for Reagan’s America, never mind how he probably can’t be as vocal about civil rights legislation as uptimers would like him to be due to the attitudes of 1940s America. That also excludes the possibility that he might get attacked for being too “soft” or “generous” with Stalinist Russia as it strong-armed Eastern Europe IOTL; how he’ll defend himself and proclaim a sufficiently fervent hatred for communism and determination to get tough on Soviet encroachment (even though Lend-Lease is still going on, I’m aware), I don’t know.

Meanwhile, could FDR’s right-wing political opponents in the downtimer US decide that Reagan—hopefully unlike Hoover, Landon, Wilkie, and Dewey—is their best shot at getting Roosevelt out of office, and lend their support to his re-election bid accordingly?

'2050 Democratic Asia-Pacific To 1950'.

True, as i mentioned already in the Unsure Where to Put Proposed Thread?, this would fall in the Politics and Current Affairs board, but unless you can predict the future Zyobot, we do not yet know if Trump gets a second term and thus this would be considered Alternate Future History. 

That is better.