/pol/ - International /Pol/itics & /Bant/er

Essentially, in a dystopian near-future where the world has been taken over by leftist bureaucratic dictatorships, a time machine is invented. A group of resistance fights, what is left of the right, steal the time travel technology and decide to fix history so that the liberal left never comes to power.

But, there is a problem. The right is very diverse, and the group splits into six factions. Each of them takes a time machine to a different time in history, trying to create what they believe to be a better world.

1. Group one feels that the last perfect time in history was the 1950s, when the baby boomers will still children, conservative values were the norm, and America virtually dominated the Earth. They intend to go back to the mid 1940s, when the post war arrangements were being made by the allies, and spend about 15 years in the past. Their broad idea is to trigger a war to wipe out communism before nuclear stockpiles get too large to make it survivable, and to ensure that the HUAC stays in power and establishes permanent right-wing censorship for all media and schools

2. Group two feels that the problems began after World War 2. They think the allies backed the wrong side, no realizing that communism was a greater threat to humanity than fascism. They plan to go back to the early 1920s, and try to alter history so that the democracies ally with the fascists against the communists in World War 2 (possibly by replacing the Nazis with more moderate fascists in Germany while putting a more radical expansionist like Trotsky in power in Russia). Their back-up plan, if this alliance falls apart, is to pour as much support into the fascists as possible, figuring that a fascist dominated world is bad, but still better than a communist dominated world.

3. Group three feels that things really began to go wrong after World War 1, which ended the long 19th century during which classical liberal democracy and traditional values dominated the world. World War 1 led to the abandonment of tradition values, and the rise of both fascism and communism. They plan to go back to the 1870s, soon after the Franco-Prussian War, and spend the rest of their lives in the the past, trying to prevent World War 1, or replace it with a number of smaller, less destructive wars.

4. Group four feels that things in America went wrong after the Civil War, when the states rights were taken away by the federal government, which became much too powerful and centralized. They plan to go back to the mid-1840s, and try to alter history so that the Confederate States of America win the civil war decisively, establishing the dominance of states rights, and taking as much of the union as possible with them

5. Group five partially agrees with group 4, but feels they are starting too late. They intend to go back to the mid-1780s, and try to alter the history of America during the cocked hat era. They want to either keep the Articles of Confederation or, failing that, patch up as many loopholes in the Constitution as they can and prevent and possibility of federal overgrowth, essentially creating a Jeffersonian America

6. Group six is the most radical of all. They believe that everything started going wrong with the Enlightenment. The Scientific Revolution and the Industrial Revolution caused massive cultural and technological change, faster than any time in human history before that, and the rise of secularism shattered the dominance of the church, which helped maintain traditional values. They plan to go back to the early 13th century, and spend the rest of their lives in that century. Their goal is to halt the progress of western civilization, and try and create a world which is no more advanced than the 16th century by the present day if possible (options they are considering are to prevent the existence of Thomas Aquinas, and to help the Mongols conquer Europe)