1969 Chawosaurian legislative elections

The **Chawosaurian Legislative Elections of 1969** were a series of uncontested elections that were held in late 1969 before its results were published on December 31, 1969. These elections were held to select all 600 members of the Chawopolis Palace. This legislative election was held during the later stages of the Vietnam War. This Cold War election was the fourth of all five elections in Chawosauria held during the Vietnam War.

The Communist Party won all 600 seats that they won in the previous election in 1965, the Communist Party could see that the Vietnam War was going well for North Vietnam and their Viet-Cong allies, and the chaos in the United States from the 1968 U.S. presidential election primarily caused by widespread opposition to the war. With the Communist Party winning a 6th term, they have become the longest ruling party of the Chawopolis Palace in Chawosaurian history.

The Communist Party participated in this election unopposed because anti-communists feared being linked to the dysfunctional society the United States seemed to have, especially in 1968, especially with an election that only sparked racial and anti-war protest to riots. as well as other western world problems such as turmoil between Britain and Ireland, and western tensions and controversies with Canada's Pierre Trudeau, which received ridicule from one half of Chawosaurian society who are rooting for socialism and made another half of Chawosaurians to believe that capitalist societies are just as dysfunctional as socialist societies. The counterculture movement and several left-wing protests that took place the following year received both sympathy and curiosity from the Chawosaurian general public.

The Communist Party never truly had to campaign because they were running unopposed. They went on to sweep all 600 seats in the Chawopolis Palace and then sweep all the popular vote but by an ever higher turnout than the last election. This is the only election in Chawosaurian history that the incumbent party ran for reelection unopposed. This is the last election until 2015 in which one party swept every race. This is Timothy Max Roosevelt's last legislative election both as party leader and as the speaker. The Communist Party has easily won a 6th victory and term in roll as majority party of the Chawopolis Palace. Timothy Max Roosevelt wins a 6th term.

## Context

In Chawosauria, after the disastrous 1965 elections, Prime Minister Jonathan Dragan Bismarck XVII decided to take a break from parliamentary leadership after twenty years of straight back to back losses, Bismarck's decision satisfied the Coalition Party who really wanted a new leader, and they had ideas. Liberals recommended people like Garfield Lucas Webster II, Gelasius Leo Webster, Garreth MacKenzie Webster, Johnathan Saint Nicholas Montgomery IV, and some women like Eleanora McClellan Webster and Dorothy Webster McClellan; conservatives struggled to recruit candidates for Coalition parliamentary leadership, however after 1967, deeply discouraging problems stopped the Coalition Party from wanting to participate in the 1969 elections in Chawosauria.

The Protests of 1968 started aiding the Communist Party with the notion that socialism is becoming a rash on the capitalist Western World. These protests erupted partly because the Vietnam War was starting to show promising signs for communism, discouraging many young people from wanting or be interested in fighting in a war that only leads to death for a failed cause. Many began ditching their drafts, even going as far as to literally burn their drafts on national TV.

The 1968 United States presidential election began to pop up, President Lyndon B. Johnson, the man orchestrating America's involvement in the Vietnam War, was gearing up for a reelection campaign for a third term despite the 22nd amendment, President Johnson was elected only once in 1964 after taking over after President Kennedy after Kennedy was assassinated by a socialist. The 22nd amendment states a President can get elected only twice, the amendment doesn't really limit how many terms a President can serve, so President Johnson, after taking the first term following Kennedy's death, getting elected once to a second term in 1964, could run again for a third term.

The 1968 election season in the United States immediately turned chaotic, the counterculture movement has already left a mark on American youth and eventually western society as decades move on. This movement emphasizes ideas such as multiculturalism, sexual freedom prominently the legalization of homosexual interactions which was legally termed "criminal" at that time period, opposition to the War on Drugs, feminism, antiwar vibes, and environmental awareness. It is these ideas that overtook the consciences of present-day liberals in the United States and is met with resistance from conservatives then and today. These ideas turned off blue-collar and middle-class white suburbanites in the Northern United States and the Midwest, while the South was still focused on their opposition to the Civil Rights Movement and de-segregation of race. These groups would be known collectively as "the Moral Majority", or the *Silent Majority* by Richard Nixon.

President Johnson attempted to run for the Democratic Party's nomination for President, but he had a primary challenger, prominent liberal and anti-Vietnam War Senator, Eugene McCarthy. But as the Democratic Party primaries began, Johnson, though won the New Hampshire primary, had a weak performance for an Incumbent. Due to Johnson's weak run for the presidency, possibly Robert F. Kennedy also taking a run for the presidency by challenging Johnson for his party's nomination, the Vietnam War not looking so good which resulting in escalating opposition to the war, Johnson realized his campaign can't go on. On March 31, 1968, Johnson said on a televised White House address: *"I shall not seek, and I will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your President"*. This shocked many people, and it did helped his approval ratings somewhat.

With Johnson out of the picture, the Democratic Party nomination for President was now up for grabs. McCarthy and Kennedy both running as antiwar candidates catch large crowds, primarily from young voters. McCarthy catching the liberal wing of the party, and Kennedy snatching black voters who are now free to vote in the South if they live in Southern states. Speaking of southern politics, the South was still angry over the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, expanding the rights of Black Southerners. This propelled the Alabama Governor George Wallace to run a third-party campaign, effectively splitting the Democratic vote.

Martin Luther King Jr and Robert F. Kennedy were both assassinated in 1968, the race riots caused by King's assassination disrupted American life, the Republicans smoothly nominated Richard Nixon and adopted a platform of *"law and order"*, the Democratic Party held a convention in Chicago which was confronted by angry anti-war protesters in an attempt to retake the party from the party establishment reigned by warmongers, only to turn into a huge riot. In the convention, the party alienated the protesters, insulted them, and criticized them. The Democrats were doomed to lose the state of Illinois in November thanks to the riots. The Democrats nominated Vice President Hubert Humphrey for President. Richard Nixon went on to win the election against Humphrey in November, taking a substantial majority of the electoral college of 301 to Humphrey's 191, and George Wallace's 45, all of Wallace's electoral votes came from the deep south. In the popular vote, Nixon eked a slim win, a plurality of the vote. Nixon became President on January 20, 1969.

At the start of the 1969 Chawosaurian legislative elections, the capitalists were embarrassed by the capitalist leader of the world having a dysfunctional society and recently, a dysfunctional election. The Communist Party began to exploit the dysfunctional American society from 1968 to label the capitalists as "too dangerous" to be in charge. As a result, the Coalition Party and capitalist independents have rejected to run. Leaving 1969 purely up for grabs solely for the Communists to swipe for themselves. The Communist Party ran in this election unopposed.

The Communist Party retained one-party rule in the Chawopolis Palace. Keeping 600 seats unopposed and won the popular vote also unopposed.

## Results

**Results of the 1969 Chawosaurian Legislative Elections**
 1965 | 1969

The 1969 Chawosaurian legislative elections were won unopposed due to capitalists not interested in participating because they were discouraged by how the United States handled the 1968 elections and protests.

## Analysis

The Communist Party ran unopposed because the capitalists were discouraged by the embarrassment of the inability of the United States, the leader of the democratic cold war world, to hold a stable society or even try to hold a stable election year.

## Legacy

This is the only election in Chawosaurian history where incumbents ran for reelection without a challenger. But due to the Washington, D.C. riots at the U.S. Capitol by rioters who were basically angry over President Joe Biden's victory over another President, Donald Trump, in the 2020 U.S. presidential election, there is talk of maybe Charles Muskie, who is the 2029 opposition candidate against the incumbent Supreme Leader Shang Jong Parker in the upcoming 2029 Chawosaurian direct election, may have to drop out because of his past support for President Trump, which Muskie feared that support could come back to haunt him in 2029 because of the U.S. Capitol debacle. Already, because of Shang Jong Parker's everlasting popularity among the Chawosaurian public, that nobody on the anti-Parkerian official opposition has any interest in running against the very popular Shang Parker for his position as Supreme Leader of the Empire of Chawosauria, so if Charles Muskie drops out of the 2029 race, then that will mean Shang Parker will run for reelection without being challenged, which would make him the first national incumbent since Speaker Timothy Max Roosevelt in the 1969 Chawopolis Palace elections to do so.