People's Alternative Party (US)

## People's Alternative Party

Party Minority

* Revolutionary Socialism
* Anti-Nationalism
* Authoritarianism
* Traditionalism

The **People's Alternative Party** (commonly called PAP or Alternatives) is a left wing technocratic party in America that was founded to provide an alternative voting platform for Americans outside of the two major parties, the Republican and Progress Parties, who the Alternatives see to be failing the American people. It is the largest party in America outside of the two major parties.

The party operates with a strict technocracy policy. Party members elect members to positions of party office based primarily on talent and knowledge, and not ideology.

Commonly called Communist by its opponents, the party does not accept this title and rejects any Communist ties to it, going as far as to title itself, "America's most anti-Communist party". However, many of its party members are sympathetic to Communism and to the Communist past, including its founder and leader Ayken Lovewater. Its head of office for foreign affairs, Joshua Levkin, is a prominent and known Communist in the party.

It is a part of Socialist International since April 2020.

The Alternatives advocate for worker's rights, better working conditions, a proletarian form of direct democracy, electoral reform, mass nationalisation of American industry, higher tarrifs and more local business, free water and electricity, free collage edcuation, withdrawal of all American forces from outside of America, withdrawal from NATO, withdrawal from all deals with Israel, recognition of Palestine, removal of international sanctions except for Israel, removal of all foreign forces from the US, withdrawal of all nuclear weapons outside of America, rent caps, and price control.

## Organisation

The main party deploys a strictly technocratic policy, only granting offices based on experience and knowledge, and not on party policy. The chairman, Dr Ayken Lovewater, does not infringe on the independence of the difference offices apart form ensuring that they are working together and creating a coherent party platform. Apart from that, the Chairman wields little power except symbolic and representative.

### Wings

#### Women's Wing

The **Women's Solidarity Committee** is the PAP's women's wing, creating a safe space for biological women to share their grievances. The women's wing is led by Abbony Karenmer, a gynecologist doctor. She was elected by the committee after being forwarded as a candidate by the scientists of the party. The wing places great emphasis on the high maternal death rates in America and pushes the party to make this a major policy to campaign on. It is the wing with the most funds and most influence in the party. It is also comprised of mostly nurses, doctors, and midwives, who believe both their patients and they have been failed by McLeodCare.

#### LGBT Wing

The LGBT Wing, known as **Queer's Avanti**, is the smallest wing in the PAP but intends to create a safe space for members of the LGBT community. However, Chairman Dr Ayken Lovewater has allowed members of the different subsections of the community to form their mini-wings if they wish to hold events. The wing is opposed by the traditionalist faction of the party but Dr Ayken Lovewater has mentioned that he will not reject anyone who wishes to serve the people by joining the PAP. The wing is headed by Henry About, a gay black middle aged man who was a human rights activist and former criminal lawyer. He has pressed the issues facing workplace discrimination against the LGBT community to be the top priority of the wing.

#### Student's Wing

The student wing of the People's Alternative Party is know as "Technocrat Students!" and is the second largest wing in the party. Headed primarily by university students across America, the student wing is highly influential. The majority of STEM students are part of the PAP's student wing. Dr Ayken Lovewater frequently visits their events and makes speeches, encouring more and more policies from them. Ayken Lovewater calls the student wing his favourite wing. Headed by a co-leadership, one male and one female, the student wing has proposed issues that faces both males and females in education. Males graduating less than females has been a particular issue that Ayken Lovewater wants to address and the female participants had also been the brains behind the free menstration pad idea originally. The Student's Wing are also the most vocal of all the wings when it comes to free university fees and pardoning all student debt.

#### Youth Wing

The youth wing of the People's Alternative Party is the Popular Youth. The party's policy is to bring more younger people, especially those interested into science, to get more interest into politics. Popular Youths hosts many scientific events for students across America to attend for free, paid for by Party donations and membership plans. They also are encourged to participate in mock debates, such as mock UN, mock congress, and mock European Parliament debates. This is to develop the youth's debating skills. Every year, the Youth Wing enter the PAP Grand Assembly to play as the future PAP, coming up with new elecotral ideas. Winners are picked based on the best party platforms. The Youth Wing also attempts to tackle youth crime, but investing into local extracurricular centres to help the youth distract themselves from grooming gangs and crime. Popular Youth also provides protection for those who are bullied, victims of crime, and are on bad terms with gang members.

## Political positions

The Alternatives are a Socialist party based on principles of Technocracy for governance instead of Communism. It calls itself a highly secular party. Dr Ayken Lovewater said he would refuse to swear on the bible if sworn in as President, and would instead hold the American flag instead.

**Economic policy:**

* Introduce an inflation based living wage depending on the State.
* Lower taxes for the working class and increase taxes on the upper and elite class.
* Increase tarrifs in order to promote domestic industry.
* Nationalise water and the energy grid.
* Trigger a state-led Green Industrial Revolution project that PAP claims will hire 300,000 Americans.
* Support full nationalisation of the Healthcare.
* Introduce rigid rent controls.
* Make collage free.
* Scrap bankers bonuses.
* Slash excess tax on energy bills, fruits, and vegetables.

**Social Policy:**

* Increase policy force transparency by making mandatory body cameras law.
* Ban the sale of tobbaco products to all those born after 2020.
* Allow abortions, LGBT civil-unions, and ban conversion therapy.
* Free Menstration pads for all female students and low earners.
* Mandatory vaccinations for all children regardless of the parent's objections.
* Crack down on gun laws.
* Introduce Ultra Low Emission Zones based on London into America.
* Increase women's rights in marriage, workplace, and community.
* Require all large scale businesses to have their boards made up of 50% workers.
* Support euthanasia.
* Legalise medical cannabis and taxed cannabis.

### Economic Issues

#### Minimum Wage

The party supports the abolishment of the minimum wage and support the replacement with an inflation-based living wage. The party claims this wage will be anywhere between $14.85 to $21.99 depending on the state. Furthermore, it says it will prevent local business inflation by creating stimulatory packages for them, to alleviate increase in prices and maintain state-led price controls.

#### Fiscal policy

The party states it will raise wealth tax on the highest earners, excise taxes, capital gains taxes and corporation taxes. In addition to that, the Alternatives state that a new new European based VAT system will be introduced for products in supermarkets, except for energy and general grocery products. The party advocates for a special fund that will collect all government revenues in order to spend it as efficiently as possible and to avoid corruption, support a public and transparent scrutiny of the treasury.

#### Welfare

The general goal of the Alternatives is to create an America that does not need to be reliant on Welfare anymore. It argues that with new job opporunities and better working conditions and fairer pay, with price controls, there can be a country that avoids having to claim welfare. However, it agrees that in the short term, strong social security is needed. They claim that with public university education, energy, and water, hundreds of thousands of families will no longer need to claim welfare as they will be "saving $4,500 per year with an Alternative government."

#### Healthcare

The Alternatives have been a vocal critic of the current healthcare system despite officials confirming that the healthcare has increased life expectancy and decreased hospial waiting times. Dr Ayken Lovewater, a medical doctor himself, has criticised former President Dianna McLeod, accusing her of being "spineless" and bashed her for "waving her blunders around like a victory flag." In particular, the PAP are critical of McLeodCare's failure to bring down Maternal and Infant Mortality rates and blames this on the care's inability to increase the number of obstetrics and gynecology doctors and midwives, for which the Alternatives state that there is a significant shortage for. The Alternatives state that by making collage education free, medical school will no longer cause people to think twice to get into. Furthermore, the party has not ruled out immigration to help solve the problem immeidately.

The Alternatives are critical of McLeodCare's "failure" to provide for the rural communities of America, and have stated that a Capitalist system could never solve such an issue, and that a party that "puts people before profit" is required to serve the rural communities and provide free healthcare. Furthermore, they have criticised the "profit-drive health system" to be the main cause for the decline in Mental Health Providers and increasing American depression and suicide rates.

The Alternatives have advocated for free parking spaces for all hospital staff.

They are advocates for the full nationalisation of healthcare across America.

#### Education

The party is vocally against private schools and advocates for its replacement with state-funded grammer schools that will educate the top brains of America and the brighest students. They will also provide free school meals to all low earning families and promote healthy dieting. They advocate for a ban of all fast food chains within a 5 km radius of a school. They want free university education, stating that by withdrawing American troops, cutting drastically on the defence budget, and revising American foreign policy embargos, enough money can be generated for public collage.

#### Environment

The Alternatives claim that the Republicans have not taken the environment seriously and the Democrats/Progressives have failed in their tasks miseably. They no longer acknowledge the phenomenon of climate change, but accept that the world has reached the stage of Climate Boiling. The Alternatives calls for a rapid focus on climate energy, claiming not only will it clean Americna air, but it will also "decrease the cost of living, provide more efficient energy, and save on bills." It has therefore advocated for Nuclear Energy as the top priority, however, due to the nuclear waste produced, the PAP states that "only once we have the technology for nuclear fusion reactors can we save our planet."

They have called for a ban on private jet flights between American states.

They support a policy of ULEZ in city centres, that will require certain vehicles to pay a tax everyday they spend inside of the ULEZ. However, exceptions are made to heavy traffic and also business vehicles.

Furthermore, the PAP has called for an improvement of American infrastructure and transport systems between states, calling it "the biggest failure of the private sector in America."

### Foreign Policy

#### NATO

PAP calls for the immediate withdrawal of America from NATO and removal of all American forces, nuclear weapons, and instructors from outside of America. They have also called for a international condemnation for NATO, and has pledged to arrest anyone in America that have committed war crimes in the name of NATO, and will ban all former statesmen that were NATO leaders from entering America.

#### Israel

The PAP calls for the complete withdrawal of all American funds and deals with , and even recognition of the State of Israel. They have adopted a one-state solution to the conflict, with the State of Palestine being the sole country in the region. They will move to deploy heavy sanctions onto Israel, threatening to "cripple Israel's economy and force Zionists to their knees." It also has called for America to remove Palestinian Resistance from the Terrorism list, including HAMAS. However, tthe party states, "we shall not decide what is best for the Palestinian people, that is for the Palestinian people to decide."

### Cuba

The PAP calls for all embargoes and sanctions onto Cuba to be lifted, and encourages more trade and dialogue between them. The PAP have expressed special interest in Cuba's medical breakthroughs and believes that with international friendship, more efforts can be made to beat cancer.

### Social Policy

#### Gun Rights

The party calls for a massive change to the Second Ammendment, calling for all military grade rifles, semi-automatic pistols, and military grade weapons to be surrendered and banned to the general public. They have said that exceptions can be made for self-defence civilian purpose pistols, that can hold a maximum of only three rounds.

#### Vaccination

The party maintains a hardline policy on vaccinations and will prosecute parents that refuse their children from being vaccinated, and have stated support to even go as far as to forcefully take the child for vaccination if the parents do not comply.

#### LGBT

The party calls for equal rights for LGBT people, and will oppose conversion therapy. However, the majority of the party state that they oppose the politicisation of the LGBT movement and the "woke culture," whom the party believes to be a platform to profit off the hardships of the LGBT community. The party has stated it will not sanction other countries for their treatment of LGBT, and states that all countries can govern as they wish.

#### Abortion

The party adopts a pro-choice policy however does not tolerate abortion services to be used as contraception.

#### Electoral Refrm

The PAP believes in the end to the American Two Party State and to adopt a new political system based on a parliamentary democracy and local proletariat direct democracies.

#### Euthanasia

The PAP believes in euthansia but admits that time will be required to make euthanasia "most ethical."

## Factions

The PAP is a party that is united with common goals, similar enough policies, and shared interests for the people. However, the PAP does have different factions within its party.

### Technocrats

The Technocrats are the largest faction in the party and advocate for an academic and scientific elite instead of a bourgeoisie and plutocratic elite. They are headed mostly by Dr Ayken Lovewater, and the majority of the party's scientists, from all backgrounds, support the Technocrat Faction.