League of American Nationalists

A political association and sometime denote as a political party in West America, the LAN is an interesting phenomenon of a contemporary political movement born from the civil war and its results, rather than the continuation of existed movements.

## From the Ashes of War

The first foundation of the LAN arises in the collapse of the power of the individual Democratic and Republican Party and its later union into the National Unity Party, the period of its first failed election of 1937 and 1941 have drove many of its members that does not identify with the extremist parties frustrated and hostile to the party establishment. Intensified after the beginning of the civil war, this feeling growth into blaming the Dem-Rep for its repeated failure to react to societal ills and in turn let American democracy be destroyed.

The flight of the Progressive Party to the West and the subsequent declaration of dissolution by its leader, Phillip and (Young) Bob La Follette (some of the Progressive and Farmer-Labor remained in the Chicago Government reject this and countinue the existence of both these parties) heeding the call to unite the old political forces to resist both the military gangsterism and red anarchy under the thinly veiled Constitutionalist Front, this in effect brought to the east a surpus of dissident progressives that have abandoned the Dem-Rep parties originally.

After the Constitutionalist pushes the Poctomacese out of Maryland, the Federal Reserves was forcefully nationalised as the Junta did not care enought to evacuate it. The sudden development of total breakdown of the US firstly made a major loss of the entire US gold reserves to back it currency along with the civil war confusion and violent especially after the botched first attempt of insurrection in the West by the Socialist Party created a hysteria and bank run that created a major economic crisis in areas not effected directly by the developing situation, a few months later the second wave of civil war effects began to occurs as shipping and monetary institutions broke down. Thousands of companies bankrupted in the following months, the banks soon followed. And as the war now a reality, the fact is that the Western economy virtually have broke down prompted the newly formed Pacific States Provisional Government to immediately began economic intervention. The Government organised the Economic Emergency Board, the gold standard is dropped and the government began pumping out the harshly printed series 1941 notes to stablise the economy.

But the war continue, the printing of money to sustain the collapsing economy is no longer feasible and is now developing into hyperinflation, the starvation for raw material is simply impossible to supply and without any mean of continuing businesses, defense preparations made a slight recovery in the economy but it was clear that there is a real war in America and the West despite not yet participating must have long terms plans for. Urged by some politicans and economist, the Economic Emergency Board draft a plan for the nationalisation of key industries, refugees relief and solving the famine threat in the city. Dr. Arthur Morgan was one of the original members of this board.

Dr. Morgan was head of the National Economic Corps, a body created around 1944 in the aftermath of the Seattle insurgency to solve the unemployement crisis that is a base for socialist agitations, chief engineer of various public work project such as the Shasta Dam in California to supply self-sustainable electricity for the growing cities of the Pacific States as well as the construction of multiple districts of Seattle destroyed during the fighting and help many less urbanised areas of the West. During this time, along with his early lifelong belief in the social community envisioned by Edward Bellamy, and with the help of the pre-war Californian Bellamite political organiser Richard Otto and the journalist Heywood Broun to organise an association that he would christine as the League of American Nationalists, first formed as an educational club with many members being associates of Dr. Morgan in the various projects of the Economic Emergency Board. Overtime with the effort of Richard Otto and Broun to promote the movement beyond a political association, in the absense of a social democratic or progressive option for those who are in the West (both the La Follette brothers and the Anti-Revolution SDP turned increasingly too conservatives for the liking of their supporters base and have supported the smaller parties to join the National Unity Party). It also a time where the strong anti-establishment mood of pre-civil war against the Democrati-Republican are still strong, espcially as the National Unity Party consolidated power at the expense of democratically elected Socialists in the West, as the Seatle Republic incident years after the revolutionary upheaval of 1941 have long passed.

Considerable than most is the arrival of the Longist Movement in the West, after the disastrous events of the last 5 years in the civil war, Huey Long have became increasingly disillusioned and demoralised, after the restored Government of the United States were created in Sacramento, he withdrawn from major leading roles, and as understood by his supporters as giving up. Without the only reason the movement happens, nothing else could unite the Longist tendencies and soon the official party was overtaken by right-winger elements like Charles Smith while Huey Long's brother Earl Long coutinues to lead it, he lacks the tenacity of Long and soon accept capitulation to the National Unity Party. With this a mass left-wing desertion of the AFM happens, and those people soon found a home in the growing LAN at the time.

The LAN, as its currently exist and the nature of West America is a political association bearing on being a party, its members are scattered among the members of government and the ruling National Unity Party and its two consitutent party: the Democrats and Republicans as well as numberous sympathisers but not listed as member like the Henry Wallace and the Roosevelt. Its very like that in the nearby future resumption of election, the LAN would appear as a political party, as very eagerly pushed by many in his movement, but Dr. Morgan is no politician and to these matters he is rather not enthusiastic.