User blog:Scrawland Scribblescratch/Trends in Alternate History 1: Sarkozy

Hi all. I'm starting a new blog series about trends in timelines on this wiki. Today's topic is Nicolas Sarkozy, the French President from 2007 to 2012. Sarkozy is, for presently unknown reasons, a popular candidate to retain his position in ATLs, or some other type of leadership.

So why Sarkozy? Well first of all, for most recent times, he has been the leader of France. And when writing ATLs, most of us don't tend to go very deep into a nation and find some random person to be the leader. We either take the current leader or someone recent or even someone who was recently defeated. Sarkozy is a prime example of this, and he's been practically everything from Supreme Dictator to normal ole' President. Of course, in a country like America, a defeated candidate from the last election could have been chosen instead of, say, Barack Obama, but with these complex political systems that most Americans do not understand or appreciate, the current leader is almost always substituted in, for simplicity's sake.

That's all for now. On Saturday I'll talk about national and interal borders of countries.