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Related: About this forumThe timeline is all wrong. Think "Yesterday's Enterprise"
&feature=fvwrelWhat a different world we might have had with JFK, MLK, RFK.
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The timeline is all wrong. Think "Yesterday's Enterprise" (Original Post)
Faygo Kid
May 2014
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LongTomH
(8,636 posts)1. An alternate history.....
If JFK had lived and been able to continue all of his initiatives, from ending the Cold War and the nuclear arms race to exploring the moon with the Russians.
- Poverty in the US would be diminished, with things like hunger and maternal death rates continually falling;
- The Cold War might have been effectively ended without the precipitous collapse of the Soviet Union that has brought so much suffering to the people of the Former Soviet Union;
- We would be well on our war to ending discrimination against our Black and Latino citizens;
- The power of the Military Industrial Complex would be vastly lessened, and
- We would be exploring the planets with international crews.
Sometimes I think we're living in the Mirror Universe, an empire ruled by those with an unquenchable thirst for power.
Oh, wait....That's the universe we are living in!
antiquie
(4,299 posts)2. Let me know when you find the portal
to the alternate.
AngryDem001
(684 posts)8. Me three....
smallcat88
(426 posts)4. I'm there
Find or make a portal, wormhole, . . . Unfortunately, we are left to fix this mess ourselves. Don't count on it in our lifetimes.
bvar22
(39,909 posts)5. K&R...
...with a tear in my eye.
Oh what could have been.
ThoughtCriminal
(14,047 posts)6. We're in the universe where Spock is going to have a beard
It's the same in all the universes where Dick Cheney was Vice President. There's this really dark one where he became President - that one even scares Evil Spock.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)7. I HAVE to post this....