DKA Coalition

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## Leaders of the Coalition

### Supreme Leader

* Degotoga K. Atagulkalu (2017-2019)
* Ekewaka Mikala Kalawai'a (2019)

### Chairperson

* Degotoga K. Atagulkalu (2017-2019)
* Ekewaka Mikala Kalawai'a (2019)

## Coalition Details

### Coalition HQ

Chawopolis Palace, Chawopolis City, Empire of Chawosauria

### Founders

* Degotoga K. Atagulkalu
* Johnathan Saint Nicholas Montgomery VII

### Founded

December 31, 2017 (2017 Chawosaurian elections)

### Member Parties

* Popular Democratic People's National Party
* Social Democratic Workers' Labour Party
* Green Party of the United States
* United Liberal Party
* Grassroots Democratic People's Green Party of Chawosauria
* U.S. Democratic Party
* Oregon Progressive Party
* Women's Equality Party

## Representation

### Imperial Assembly (1,000)

817

The **DKA Coalition**, also known as the **Capitalist Coalition** or the **Anti-Communist Coalition** or simply the **Capitalists**, was a coalition government and an alignment of interest groups that rallied around the Supreme Leader Degotoga K. Atagulkalu and against the Chawallian Communist Party. The DKA Coalition ruled Chawosauria from January 1, 2018 to July 16, 2019. The DKA Coalition was founded after it was successfully put together in the 2017 Chawosaurian elections, resulting in the historic two elections wins of Degotoga K. Atagulkalu, and the Chawallian Communist Party losing control of the Chawopolis Palace for the first time since taking over the Chawopolis Palace in 1946 after its victory in the 1945 Chawosaurian legislative elections. But in 2019, Degotoga K. Atagulkalu died in office on March 3, 2019, and the DKA Coalition collapsed on July 16, 2019, due to the ineffective legislative leadership of Supreme Leader Ekewaka Mikala Kalawai'a, partisan and ideological tensions within the DKA Coalition over issues such as climate change, systemic racism, and other issues. Supreme Leader Kalawai'a ran for election for his own term in the 2019 Chawosaurian direct election, and the loss of the DKA Coalition partially damaged Kalawai'a's election efforts. Anti-communist control of the Chawosaurian government collapsed in the 2019 Chawosaurian elections, the Chawosaurian Communist Party stormed control of the Chawosaurian government, defeating Supreme Leader Kalawai'a in a landslide with Shang Jong Parker, and won a supermajority in both the Imperial Assembly of the Chawopolis Palace and the Federal Assembly of the Continent Union, creating a communist government in the 2020-2024 Chawosaurian Government.

## Short History

### Chawosaurian Elections in 2017

The DKA Coalition was forged into power in the 2017 Elections in Chawosauria, where the Capitalist Parties forming a coalition to defeat the Communist Party, and enact unified Capitalist and Free Market policies.

This coalition won the 2017 Special Election for the Monarchy, and the Comrade Presidency, and the 2017 Legislative snap elections for the Chawopolis Palace. They came to full power on January 1, 2018.

### DKA Coalition in Government

#### Coalition Factionalization

The Capitalist DKA Coalition had diversity in political spectrum and philosophy, which foreshadowed problems for Degotoga K. Atagulkalu and his Capitalist government, The left-wing faction of the DKA coalition formed the short-lived Left-Wing Coalition, and the centrist and right-wing faction of the DKA coalition formed the Big Tent Coalition. This coalition divide of the Capitalist government took control of the Palace. The Left-Wing Coalition was the largest coalition.

#### Arsenals of Socialism

(*see Arsenals of Socialism*)

DKA's left-wing coalition began enacting socialist arsenals over the resistance of the more Moderate to Conservative faction of the Capitalist Government. These moves to enact social democratic policies have alienated Libertarian and Conservative Capitalists and accused the Progressive Capitalists of breaking campaign promises that they would not run Chawosauria based on the playbook of socialism. The Progressive Capitalists gained support from Chawo-Socialists.

### Great Patriotic War

(*see Great Patriotic War*)

It's not just Libertarians and Conservatives that DKA is gonna alienate, it's gonna be his own left-wing supporters who will be alienated by DKA, DKA began to take an extreme pro-war approach to the Great Patriotic War to defeat the Bismarckians. DKA signed a military order called the *No Soldier Steps Back, No Coward Deserves Mercy, No Citizen Seen Military Order*, a Stalin-like military order that mandates that any civilian, Chawosaurian or Bismarckian, regardless of age (literally including children) to be shot to death if seen on a warzone. This move really didn't make DKA's anti-war and pacifist supporters happy.

### Chawopolis Palace Sex Scandals

(see *2018-19 Government sex scandals*)

In later 2018 to 2019, Capitalist politicians in the Palace had been involved in numerous embarrassing sex scandals.

## Fracturing and Defections

Degotoga K. Atagulkalu's approval ratings began to decline in 2018 due to Capitalist voters feeling alienated by him, and Communist voters been despising him since day one. This loss of popularity caused the severe fracturing of the DKA Coalition.

### Collapse of the Left-Wing Coalition

The two alienated left-wing parties, the Social Democratic Workers' Labour Party, and the Grassroots Democratic People's Green Party, both formed an alliance, the Social Democratic-Green Party Alliance, and they withdrew from the left-wing coalition in repudiation to DKA and his war policies. As a result, new coalitions succeeding the left-wing coalition, the Center-Left Coalition, a loyal left-wing coalition loyal to DKA, and the Social Democratic-Green Party Alliance, an anti-DKA left-wing coalition. The Communist Party withdrew from the left-wing coalition as well.

### Death of Degotoga K. Atagulkalu

(*see: Death of Degotoga K. Atagulkalu*)

On March 3, 2019, Degotoga K. Atagulkalu, the father of this coalition, passed away in Switzerland, thus progressively weakening this coalition. The coalition having no leader could mean the dissolution of the coalition. More defections, and a weaker position in 2019 and future elections.

### Defecting Groups

#### Conservatives

DKA's progressive approach on policy alienated Conservatives in Chawosauria and caused these Conservatives, who previously voted for DKA in opposition to Communism, to start defecting and distancing themselves from DKA. This defection caused the Capitalists to suffer electoral defeats in the 2018 elections.

#### Libertarians

Chawosaurians who are Libertarians voted for DKA in the 2017 elections in opposition to Communism, but felt alienated or "betrayed" by DKA and accused DKA of "enacting a Communist agenda" to appease Chawosaurians. The Libertarian voters' defection from DKA's coalition attributed to DKA's failure to assume common ground among his coalition.

#### Anarchists

Anarchists in Chawosauria voted for DKA in opposition to Communism in the 2017 elections but felt alienated by DKA's belief in a strong central government, Libertarians and Conservatives shared the same frustration. DKA's failure to assume common ground "pissed" these three "small-government to no government" voting blocs and enabled unified Communist Party victories.

#### Left-Wing Populists

Although DKA enacted a social democratic agenda, DKA alienated social democrats by nearly appointing two Conservatives to replace Prime Minister Garfield Baldwin. Left-Wing Populists in Chawosauria voted for DKA in the 2017 elections due to hopes that DKA would enact social democratic and progressive policies, which he did, but they became angry with DKA due to his war policies. Left-Wing Populists criticized DKA's military policies and handling of the Great Patriotic War.

#### Liberals

Liberals (of various factions) voted for DKA in the 2017 elections due to hopes that DKA would establish a western democratic system of government, but DKA's moves to enact western democracy were modest, thus making Liberal voters feel DKA was "a lost cause for western democracy".

#### Blue Collar Whites

Chawosaurians who are White Blue Collar Workers voted for DKA in 2017 due to DKA's appeal to labor rights, support for strong labor unions, luckily for DKA, he succeeded in enacting workers' rights by enacting the Labor Rights Act of 2018, but Blue Collar Whites disapproved of DKA's socialist approach of governing, and began defecting from him, DKA retains support among non-White Blue Collars.

#### Pink Collar Workers

Another demographic loss are Pink Collar Workers. In the Age of Smartphone Referendum of 2018, 51% of Pink Collar Workers voted in favor of an initiative seeking to ban under-21-year olds from having phones, and for a year, Pink Collar Workers have been turning against advancing technology motivated by fears of Technological Unemployment, a situation where a worker loses his or her job caused by technological changes in the work environment. Pink Collar Workers in Chawosauria have a long history of voting against the Communist Party, but opinion polls show that they're planning to vote for the Communist Party for the first time in the history of this working class in Chawosauria. If Pink Collar Workers vote for the Communist Party, it will cause the Millennial Firewall to collapse entirely. The Millennial Firewall is the voting bloc formed in the later 2000s to early 2010s that had been voting against the Communist Party since the 2009 legislative elections.

## Demise

On July 16, 2019, the whole DKA Coalition collapsed and dissolved into four capitalist political parties and two progressive bipartisan coalitions. This demise of the DKA coalition caused a big political distress among both the Capitalist majority in the Palace, and the ideological and partisan fracturing capitalist base.

The results of the 2019 Chawosaurian elections permanently shattered the DKA Coalition by smashing the Millennial Firewall and putting the Capitalists in their worst opposition-minority party status since 2006.

## See Also

* Cold War Coalition (1945-present)
* Socialist Coalition (2022-present)