[Drop Bear]

Over night I got to thinking, the US politics would look a lot different from the late 90's onward, assuming no WWIII or Extraterrestrial threat.

We still get Clinton in '92, some time late in his 2nd term there would be a War Scare, the Y2K election with no Global Warming threat would be between a Democratic Platform of Social Spending and International Aid Relations spending (in attempt to rebuild American Soft Power and stabilize world conflict) and a Republican platform of Defense Spending (to redevelop US Hard Power) Infrastructure & Industrial redevelopment (as one Republican would have said "We do pick Winners & Losses, but as long as the Finalists are all American we don't care who wins"), I see a moderate republican win in Y2K and an other war scare around the time of the '04 election sees a 2nd republican term. '08 the sub prime bubble is smaller and insulated by a still redeveloping American economy, but this alongside a socially regressive almost getting the republican nomination will see a democrat return to the white-house, we would see a rather "flat" two terms both economically and politically '16 would see a "Revitalize America" platform get the Republicans back in but socially regressive politicians in Congress would hamstring the president who would a failed primary challenge by someone from the fringe wing of his party. that and a split Republican party would return a milk toast Democrat in 2020.

2022 sees a slim (and weak coalition of) Democratic control of Congress opposed by a divided Republican party, a lukewarm (and likely floundering) Democrat in the White House a Conservative SCOTUS just as the world starts to heat up again. Republican leadership is about to self destruct and the democrats have a couple of more dynamic and slightly more progressive types milling around in the wings getting ready to primary or force aside an aging President Milk-toast in '24.