1965 Chawosaurian legislative elections

These results of the **1965 Chawosaurian legislative elections** were published on December 31, 1965. These elections were held to elect all 600 members of the Chawopolis Palace. 301 seats needed for a majority, 360 seats were required to win a supermajority. This is the third Chawopolis Palace election out of all five elections in Chawosauria held during the Vietnam War. The incumbent party is the Communist Party and they were first elected 20 years prior. It is the most recent Chawopolis Palace election where all contenders instead of one have served as Speaker of the Imperial Assembly of the Chawopolis Palace.

The Communist Party, led by the incumbent Speaker of the Chawopolis Palace, Timothy Max Roosevelt, demolished the entire caucus of the incumbent Prime Minister Jonathan Dragan Bismarck XVII, winning all 600 seats and knocking out of Bismarck's 99 conservative seats. The Communists have retained the supermajority that they won in the 1949 Chawosaurian legislative elections.

What may have been a factor for the Communist Party's victory is that the Soviet Union has been ahead of the United States throughout the first 20 years of the Cold War, having successfully put the first human into space via *Vostok 1*, the Soviets tested Tsar Bomba in 1961, the establishment of the Berlin Wall also in 1961 and the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962. Following these Cold War events of the early 1960s, the United States got involved into the Vietnam War under the Kennedy administration. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, leaving Lyndon B. Johnson to swipe the ranks all to himself and escalated the conflict in Vietnam, foreshadowing the end of his presidency by the end of the decade.

The elections were also focused on Chawosauria's humanitarian urge for Alaska and other parts of the Pacific Ocean affected by the 1964 Alaska Earthquake. The Communist Party, with Emperor Santiago's approval, done humanitarian work by sending Chawosaurian volunteers to donate food, help reconstruct damaged cities and personal property, and did community service with these communities. The Communist Party received widespread praise for their response to the Alaska earthquake, and it partly earned them an election win in 1965.

The dramatic events of the Cold War with the Cuban Missile Crisis and its aftermath, the Soviets putting a man into space, the Berlin Wall, the Tsar Bomba atomic bomb, and U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson's decision to escalate the Vietnam War has earned the Communist Party a dramatic boost.

Chawosaurians also got tired of Bismarck and his Coalition Party keep running over and over again after a long string of losses dating back to the 1949 Chawosaurian legislative elections, so the voters gave the ultimate blow to his party by knocking out all of their incumbents, that exact same situation was repeated in the 2015 Chawosaurian legislative elections just 50-years from here with George Windsor and his Social Democratic Labour Party after the party's own string of losses. This shows Chawosaurians don't like the same party that they rejected before being on the ballot again.

The Communist Party secured a 5th victory in a roll. Timothy Max Roosevelt secured a 5th term as Speaker.

## Background

In Chawosauria, beating a ruling parliamentary party in an election is a quest only a very few of parties and their leaders have finished with success, the Coalition Party has attempted to unseat the Chawallian Communist Party since the 1949 Chawosaurian legislative elections, but the Communists are repeatedly reelected. In the recent election, the 1959 elections, the Communists gained 66 seats from the Capitalists. Expanding their majority from within. This election was primarily focused on bomb tests, tested by Communist nations. One bomb test, Tsar Bomba, the largest bomb test, has made Communism appeared stronger among Chawosaurians.

Prime Minister Bismarck and his right-wing premiership suffered from the agony of constant liberal revolts against him after losing four straight elections to the Communist Party while literally losing seats in each of these losing elections. Liberals refused to support Bismarck that they refused to convince liberal voters to vote for the anti-communists, some liberals went too far as to encourage liberal voters to vote for the Communist Party instead. The liberals began to purposely sabotage the election against Bismarck by discouraging staunchly anti-communist liberals from voting in the 1965 elections at all and encourage liberal voters who will vote to vote for the Communist Party simply to shit on Bismarck's day. Bismarck resisted these liberal efforts and tried to find conservative voters, the problem is that even they're too disappointed to vote because Bismarck had not been delivering any election results that is favorable to them, and it doesn't help too much that in the United States a year prior, a conservative Republican nominee for President, Barry Goldwater, was massively defeated by the incumbent President at the time, Lyndon B. Johnson, in the 1964 U.S. presidential election.

Chawosaurian progressive figures such as Lochlainn Wilkie MacKenzie VI, Walerian I. Boleslaw, Samantha A. Montgomery, Eleanora McClellan-Webster and her 15-year-old son Sydney Lucas Webster, Ludovico Valerio Belcastro, Nicholas W. McClellan, and allegedly the Supreme Leader of Chawosauria at the time, Emperor Santiago, all worked together to sabotage Bismarck and his right-wing allies' efforts to campaign for Bismarck himself. MacKenzie and Eleanora McClellan-Webster promoted rumors that Bismarck was a crossdresser, Ludovico Belcastro, Sydney Webster, and Walerian Boleslaw promoted rumors that Bismarck took part in the Assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy in 1963, and Emperor Santiago said in a press conference that Bismarck was a womanizer and a prostitute.

These smear campaigns against Bismarck by these prominent Chawosaurian liberal figures were incredibly successful, and it gave the Communist Party ammunition to attack Bismarck's character and in the eyes of the Chawosaurian public and electorate, personal trust in Bismarck was fundamentally weak and it escalated his unpopularity even further.

## Election

### Issues

#### U.S. Involvement in the Vietnam War

In 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson began sending troops to Vietnam to fight the Communist faction of Vietnam in favor of the Democratic faction of Vietnam. This angered the people of Chawosauria. Communism has been popular in Chawosauria since World War II, and Chawosaurians had been strong supporters of the USSR over America.

Anti-Americanism expanded all across Chawosauria. Jonathan D. Bismarck, Prime Minister, attempted to find a middle ground, by criticizing the United States entering the Vietnam War, while opposing Communism, this fails when Chawosaurians distrusts Bismarck. Timothy Max Roosevelt successfully compared Bismarck to Barry Goldwater, the Republican nominee for President of the United States massively defeated by President Lyndon B. Johnson in the 1964 United States presidential election. Bismarck and Goldwater are both hardline Conservatives, leading to a big revolt against Conservatism.

#### The Soviet Union and other Communist states

A range of 70-80% of Chawosaurians support Communism, Bismarck attempted to campaign for lower taxes, deregulation, Christian values, and corporate interests, and he attacked liberals, communists, left-wingers, but Bismarck's efforts were too ineffective in an increasingly far-left nation with a rising socialist electorate. Bismarck was too weak on foreign policy because Bismarck knew his Anti-Communist and Conservative view on foreign policy, especially on Vietnam, were unpopular for Chawosauria, and Bismarck's best way of campaigning was lower taxes, deregulation, corporate interests, and a strong military, all Ronald Reagan style of campaigning that failed in a nation that overwhelmingly supports the Soviet Union and opposes the United States. Timothy Max Roosevelt was strong on foreign policy, advocated for Soviet expansionism, World Communism, voiced his support for the USSR, praised Leonid Brezhnev, Kim II-sung, Mao Zedong, Ho Chi Minh, and Fidel Castro. Giving Timothy, the Communists, and his supporters a good chance to, not only win, but expand their majority in the palace.

#### Civil Rights Movement in the United States

Support for the American Civil Rights Movement was low among Chawosaurians. Both Timothy Max Roosevelt, and Jonathan D. Bismarck, even in legislative debates, have all criticized the Civil Rights movement. Although it was a bipartisan opposition, Bismarck attempted to politicize the Civil Rights movement against Timothy by saying his sister, Samantha A. Montgomery, supported the Civil Rights movement. It backfired. Montgomery accused Bismarck of trying to appeal to White Supremacists from the Southern United States to vote for Bismarck.

#### Pre-election Cold War events

##### Cuban Missile Crisis

A series of threats of a World War III made by both the U.S. and the U.S.S.R., Chawosaurians also panicked by the possibility of a nuclear war. The Americans had missiles in Turkey, too close to Russia then, while the Soviets had missiles in Cuba, too close to the United States, really close to the U.S. State of Florida. This started when the Americans tried to "technically" overthrow Fidel Castro of Cuba by attempting to start an armed revolution in Cuba, but it backfired. That was when the Soviets began arming Cuba with missiles.

The Soviets took advantage of the fact that President John F. Kennedy was too young for the Presidency, making him a fool to the Soviets. However, the Kennedy administration and the Soviets in Moscow made a deal to not start a nuclear war, the Americans agreed to withdraw their missiles from Turkey while the Soviets withdrew their missiles from Cuba, chilling tensions between the Americans and the Russians.

However, this compromise resulted in the downfalls of both Kennedy and Khrushchev.

##### Tsar Bomba

On October 30, 1961, four years before the election, the Soviet Union tested their greatest bomb in Russian history, and pretty much, Human history. Addressing Tsar Bomba, Bismarck was failing to defend America's bombs, Timothy, ironically an American himself, attacked America's bombs as "too weak" and "ineffective" to defeat the USSR in a Nuclear War. Bismarck accused Timothy of calling for World War III, but this backfires when Timothy showed ads of Bismarck defending the Kennedy administration's Cuban Missile Crisis, an event that nearly started World War III.

Tsar Bomba had made Communism so appealing to Chawosaurian voters, because of it's size, and power over all bombs tested by the Capitalist West, even than the Communist East, making it a huge factor of this Communist victory in 1965.

##### China's first nuclear bomb test - Project 596

On October 16, 1964, the People's Republic of China tested their first bomb, called Project 596. Nuclear weapons became the symbol of Chawosauria's energizing socialist electorate, and with the spreading of Communism looming to Vietnam 10 years from this election, this inspires Chawosauria to form their nuclear program and become a nuclear power of their own. These communist bomb tests that had been succeeding made Communism looked stronger among Chawosaurians, and more appealing, especially when Tsar Bomba comes to town.

These nuclear weapons had mostly been a factor of the Communist sweeps from 1949 to 1969.

### Electoral Strategies and Slogans

#### Communist Party - Timothy Max Roosevelt

Timothy Max Roosevelt's strategy to win the election was appealing to increasing pro-Communism and anti-Capitalism sentiments in Chawosauria. by saying how "weak the United States was at bomb testing, and championed for the working class in Chawosauria who has increasing anti-Capitalist sentiment because of Corporate abuse. Chawosaurians from China marched at Timothy's rallies in support for the Communist Party.

#### Capitalist Alliance - Jonathan Dragan Bismarck XVII

Bismarck attempted to use Reaganism (before it became Reaganism) to spread his message in supportive of the Capitalist Party coalition who were opposed to the Communist Party. Bismarck distanced himself from Emperor Santiago and used dog whistle politics to inspire White Supremacists to vote for the Capitalist Alliance. Bismarck asked Jonathan MacCarthy and James W. Kingsley to form a campaign rally of Chawosaurians who were members of the Ku-Klux-Klan, this rally was held in Rosedale, Mississippi.

## Results and Analysis

The Communist Party retained their majority in the Palace but expanded their majority by 99 seats.

The Communist Party won a 5th term, which was a term never been won before, thereby the Communist Party is the longest-reigning political party in the history of the Chawosaurian world.

The communists won because of the geopolitical climate of the Cold War at this time, and Bismarck lost all of his incumbents because people got tired of him and his party after getting repeatedly rejected by the voters themselves dating back to 1949.

## Post-election Cold War events

### Chinese Bomb Test of 1967

China tested their first hydrogen bomb in 1967, two years after the 1965 Chawosaurian elections. This was a bomb that influenced the 1969 elections.

Timothy Max Roosevelt praised this and said "the greatest bomb that will lead to strong Communist eastern civilization. The ability to defeat Capitalism is nearing, and rising". The Chawosaurian people watched this on their TVs and celebrated this.

### Escalating Vietnam War

After the 1965 elections, the United States saw the escalation of the Vietnam War and was wide criticism, even from the people of the United States. Protests dominated the streets of America, burning of drafts, and more.

### 1968 U.S. Presidential Election

In the United States, with the Democratic Party breaking apart over the Vietnam War, especially when the Democrats have a losing war on their territory, something FDR had the strength when World War II was the Democrats' winning war.

In response to Race Riots, Protests against the Vietnam War, Hippies, and more, Richard Nixon and his Republican Party created a slogan to reach out to Conservative suburbanites, and Southern Whites who were angry towards this, but especially about the Civil Rights movement, something George Wallace had an advantage towards.

## See also

* Chawosaurian Legislative Elections, 1945
* Chawosaurian Legislative Elections, 1975
* Chawosaurian Legislative Elections, 1985
* Chawosaurian Legislative Elections, 2005
* Chawosaurian Legislative Elections, 2015