Burton Coalition

> *An electorate of conservative and moderate and some socialist voters in Chawosauria*
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## Coalition Details

### Founders

* Wendell Rawlings Burton
* Jonathan Lothian McGettigan III
* Charles Walpole

### Member Parties

* Chawosaurian Revolutionary Party
* Conservative Party of Chawosauria
* Chawosaurian Liberal Democrats
* Chawosaurian Democratic Party
* Unfortunate Sons & Daughters of Chawosauria

### Ideology

* **Official**
	+ Anti-Socialism
	+ Anti-Communism
	+ Liberalism
	+ Egalitarianism
	+ Anti-Clericalism
	+ Anti-Zionism
* **Majority**
	+ Neoliberalism
	+ Conservatism
* **Minority**
	+ Social Liberalism
	+ Libertarianism

## Representation

### Federal Assembly (6,000)

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The **Burton Coalition** (also known as the **Burton bloc** or the **WRB Coalition**, and other suggested names below) is a Chawosaurian big-tent coalition founded by Wendell Rawlings Burton, who is the Leader of the Opposition and leader of the Chawosaurian Revolutionary Party as well as the party's nominee for Prime Minister of the Empire of Chawosauria in the 2024 Chawosaurian legislative elections. The Burton Coalition is a long last response to the Cold War Coalition that has long existed since the 1945 Chawosaurian legislative elections and has held strong against unsuccessful anti-communist coalitions such as the DKA Coalition from 2017 to 2019. The Burton Coalition has become close to a silent majority in the Chawosaurian world. The Burton Coalition has become the replacement of the DKA Coalition from 2017 to 2019.

The Burton Coalition is made up of Chawosaurians who are conservative, moderate, socialists who are alienated by Supreme Leader Shang Jong Parker and his liberal policies, those who live in rural areas, the suburbs, and city moderates. Libertarians are also part of the Burton Coalition. The Burton Coalition does not however include nor welcome right-wingers, religious people (though Wendell Rawlings Burton is a Christian but that is sealed from the Chawosaurian public), anarchists, and extremists. The Burton Coalition is intended to reconcile Chawosaurian culture and conservatism, by distancing conservatism from things Chawosaurians hate, such as religion, right-wing politics, and corporatism.

The Burton Coalition was founded on 21st century fatigue, Cold War Chawosaurians (generations of Chawosaurians who were born during the Cold War) have become tired of 21st century music, entertainment, fashion, technology, politics, and culture. Cold War Chawosaurians began to see 21st century society as over-lionizing sex and drugs, encouraging, inciting, and tolerating youth rebellion, as well as tolerating technological unemployment (loss of jobs due to technological updates of the workplace; e.l. workers being replaced by robots because it helps CEOs save money for themselves).

On September 7, 2023, an Anti-Socialist Coalition was finally negotiated by Wendell Rawlings Burton, Jonathan Lothian McGettigan III, and Charles Walpole. The Burton Coalition will also be the parliamentary coalition that will oppose the Socialist Coalition. The Chawosaurian Revolutionary Party, the Conservative Party of Chawosauria, the Chawosaurian Liberal Democrats, and the Chawosaurian Democratic Party have all agreed to work together to win the 2024 Chawosaurian legislative elections. The Socialist Coalition mockingly called the Burton Coalition the "corporatist coalition" in response.

## History

> *Main article: Coalition Party (1947-1979) and the DKA Coalition (2017-2019)*
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The people who opposed communism and socialism are alot more ideological diverse than the left-wing itself, the enemies of socialists and communists are capitalists, who are either liberal or conservative depending on their political views, but what unites them together is their hatred for socialism; other people who opposes socialism are fascists, some nationalists, some progressives, the center-left, and right-wingers.

These advantages and disadvantages of the opposition to socialism are best shown in Chawosauria, when after the 1945 Chawosaurian legislative elections, the anti-communist parties had to unite into the Coalition Party led by Prime Minister Jonathan Dragan Bismarck XVII, but there were countless inter-coalition civil wars between that coalition's left and right flanks over Bismarck's place in the coalition, and following the 2017 Chawosaurian legislative elections, the DKA Coalition was established by Supreme Leader Degotoga K. Atagulkalu to unite all the winning anti-communist parties to form a supermajority coalition government to govern, and they governed as a left-wing government, which after DKA died in 2019, the conservative wing of the DKA Coalition revolted and caused governing headaches for the entire anti-communist government, and the DKA Coalition splintered during the 2019 Chawosaurian elections. These divisions within the anti-communist coalitions have always been exploited by Chawosaurian communists, and this resulted in communist electoral success.

The failure of the DKA Coalition made many anti-communists and in some cases, anti-socialists more broadly, more urgent to recalibrate, and as one of the former DKA Coalition parties, the Social Democratic Workers' Labour Party, begin to work closely with the Chawosaurian Communist Party-led 2020-2024 Chawosaurian Government of Supreme Leader Shang Jong Parker, resulting in the formation of the Socialist Coalition in 2022, the anti-communists (now the anti-socialists) begin a plan to form another anti-socialist coalition but this time with weaker left-wing representation unlike the DKA Coalition.

### Naming

The coalition is called "the Burton coalition" because it was forged by Wendell Rawlings Burton, however, there is a debate of whether to keep its current name or rename it, but there is no unified consensus of what to name the coalition, therefore they had to stick with the Burton Coalition's current name, and there is a debate of whether to rename it to the Rawlings Coalition when Samuel Rawlings takes over the Coalition to moves the Coalition to a more liberal direction, and then name it after each succeeding leader.

* Chawosauria Coalition
* Democratic Coalition
* Republican Coalition
* National Coalition
* People's Coalition
* Liberal Coalition
* Burton Republicans
* Rawlings Coalition (when Samuel Rawlings succeeds Wendell Burton)

### Liberals

> *Main article: Chawosaurian Liberal Democrats, Chawosaurian Democratic Party, and some of the Chawosaurian Revolutionary Party*
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Also called **Burton Liberals**, these liberals are supporters of Wendell Rawlings Burton, while maintaining the principle of liberalism,

### Conservatives

> *Main article: Conservative Party of Chawosauria and Chawosaurian Revolutionary Party*
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## Coalition Platform

This is the official platform of the Burton Coalition.

### Cultural and Social stances

The Burton Coalition accepts egalitarianism, officially endorsing Major Amendment I of the Imperial Constitution of the Empire of Chawosauria.

### Economic policy

The Burton Coalition, due to factional and partisan divisions, does not have a unified economic policy.

## Controversies

### Ability to maintain Coalition unity

During the 2024 Chawosaurian legislative elections, due to memories of the disastrous end to the DKA Coalition in 2019 after Degotoga K. Atagulkalu died that year, the Burton Coalition begin to face questions about their ability to maintain unity when they're elected to government. When Supreme Leader Degotoga K. Atagulkalu died in office on March 3, 2019, his coalition government struggled to stay together, and they allowed partisan and ideological divisions to dismantle the DKA Coalition, which was one of the top major reasons the Chawosaurian Communist Party won back control of the Imperial Assembly of the Chawopolis Palace for the Chawosaurian communist movement in the 2019 Chawosaurian legislative elections.

Leadership of the Burton Coalition became concerned about their ability to hold the coalition together, especially post Wendell Burton. Coalition leaders also empathized that when DKA died, there was no clear successor, and when Wendell Burton does either die or retire, his successor will be unclear. Frederick Gillett Hawthorne will succeed Wendell Burton to lead the Chawosaurian Revolutionary Party, but it is Samuel Rawlings who may likely succeed Burton as Chairperson of the coalition, and because Rawlings is younger than Burton and is to the left of Burton, Burton Coalition insiders want to make clear that it is Rawlings who is the heir apparent to Burton.

There are libertarians in the Burton Coalition, Chawosaurian libertarians gained attention and popularity amongst Chawosaurians for the first time ever in Chawosaurian history during the Chawosaurian Revolution in the late 2010s, however they became associated with the Presidency of Donald Trump in the U.S., which deeply crippled the popularity of libertarianism in Chawosauria, causing many Chawosaurians to abandon their considerations and admiration for the ideology and reverted back to socialism in 2019. After Trump left office in 2021, Chawosaurian libertarians hoped the lacking of Trump's presence and Supreme Leader Shang Jong Parker's actions during the COVID-19 pandemic and his provoking of the Chawo-Uralic War will help libertarianism regain popularity. However, Trump running for President again in 2024 and libertarianism's failure to regain steam amongst Chawosaurians made Chawosaurian libertarianism more voiceless and more invisible in the Chawosaurian world than ever before.

### Conservatives in the Burton Coalition

The Burton Coalition, like the DKA Coalition, has conservatives within their ranks, but unlike the DKA Coalition, the Burton Coalition's conservative wing wields more power and are more vocal that a conservative, Wendell Burton himself, is the leader of the coalition, and this became an issue during the 2024 Chawosaurian legislative elections. Burton's wife, Dorothy Wallace Burton, made headlines for suggesting that Chawosauria should boost military spending and shrink government, confusing the Chawosaurian public.

### Handling of the "Israel issue"

The nation, Israel, is bitterly unpopular in Chawosauria, and conservatives, especially those in the west, are prominent in Chawosauria for their Zionism. This however is one of the major and most significant reasons conservatism is really unpopular in the Chawosaurian world. When the conflict between Israel and Hamas broke out in 2023, the Burton Coalition feared the Chawosaurian perception that their strain of conservatism will be associated with Israel, in fact Israel has actually became a threat to the Burton Coalition's electability in the 2024 election, this prompted the Burton Coalition, especially its conservative candidates, to begin distancing themselves from Israel and Jewish people in general due to universal antisemitism in Chawosauria.

## See also

* Cold War Coalition
* DKA Coalition
* Socialist Coalition
* Anti-Socialist Coalition