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From The Ashes of the Old: A Post-American Collapse Quest

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[X] Plan: We Can Be Friends Until The Revolution
-[X] Fostering Goodwill
-[X] Lock Down the California Communist Party
-[X] Approach the American People's Army

Of the two leading plans, I think that 'take power' runs the risk of throwing us into internal conflict, which will likely be pounced upon by our external enemies, or at the very least distracting us from being able to handle them. The other, I feel, gives up too much in the name of compromise - I'd rather make deals with Foster than Tyner. Social patriotism is a scourge and a plague, and inviting it into our home is just asking for us to wind up turning it down and gaining nothing because of our moral sensibilities.

As such, my plan:
1. Solidifies our internal power base, with locking down the CCP.
2. Opens negotiations with Foster, instead of Tyner - Someone who we can probably deal with on, hopefully, more palatable ground morally. I think we'll be able to make commitments to environmentalism and the USSR a lot more easily than committing to either "wars of liberation" for social patriotism.
3. Seeks to steal out Tyner's support from under him, setting us up to cripple Tyner and align Foster so as to best move forward with more radical plans to align the Politburo and handle a National Convention. It's a lot easier to convince people to 'resign' or 'persuade' them to vote for you if you have the army and security services on-side, after all.
 
[X] Take power, you son of a bitch, when it is handed to you
 
[X] Take power, you son of a bitch, when it is handed to you

The Party needs leadership capable of forming their own constituency, not leadership contingent on the good graces of other major party movers or shakers. If Foster or Tyner want in on the new party government, let them come to us.

Like, I get the fears that not extending an olive branch out risks splitting the party, but note that we're not allowed to extend the olive branch to both Tyner and Foster - approaching one will inherently risk alienating the other and may well exacerbate the risk of a split. I think the best way to avoid a split is to establish ourselves, unambiguously, as the Party's leader and that means we need to make some aggressive moves to consolidate and build our own constituency within it.
 
[X] Plan Go West, Old Man

The real plan should be to move in one direction to purge one of our rivals, then move in the opposite direction to purge the other rival, in true Stalin fashion.
 
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[X] Take power, you son of a bitch, when it is handed to you
-[X] Lock Down the California Communist Party
-[X] Mobilize the Young Communist League
-[X] Approach the American People's Army
 
[X] Plan: We Can Be Friends Until The Revolution
-[X] Fostering Goodwill
-[X] Lock Down the California Communist Party
-[X] Approach the American People's Army
 
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