A Quick Response to Post-Election Analysis
Azazel Romanov
A bit of an odd title to the article, but it is the best I could come up with. Franklin Stone recently argued that SFP restarted my writing career and I denied this. Now I'm responding to an article inspired by SFP politics, so I guess I'll have to eat my words on this particular case. So here goes nothing.
J.A. Lake just wrote an article about why he thinks Jude lost the race, and he appears to lay blame at the way they went about trying to win. His first statement is that "this could very well be because the SFP has done nothing to garner the votes to win." I'd say he's right on that note. SFP is new to the Top 5 game and hasn't come out with any particular achievement other than that, unless you want to argue about party activity. While party activity is great, what makes it something to be elected for is to translate it to national activity. You have to break the bubble and show that beyond party politics that your members are capable of performing for the national benefit. Think of the party itself as a training ground for the bigger game. The USWP and Feds have always kind of followed this model of development, and encouraged their members to become leaders rather than devoting all energies to the party.
However, Lake takes this in a different direction. He argues that "the hard truth is our campaign promises have gone unfulfilled and our conduct has been less-than-revolutionary." In other words, it was because they couldn't accomplish their goals, and thus the personal appeal of the candidate couldn't break through. He states that they need to find ways to win to accomplish their goals (in his view): lower taxes, a different foreign policy, and an elimination of the defensive dictatorship. SFP (and including BSP I suppose) will likely never have a majority over the other Top 5, or at least one that is sustainable to have those policies implemented long-term. If these are the goals, you need to sell them. And not just to your party, but to the other Top 5. Otherwise, it will always be 4-1, and you won't win the national election, or implement any of the policies. Push why lower taxes benefit the country. Push why a different foreign policy could be more beneficial (rather than just something different and fun). How do we benefit more from a lack of a defensive dictatorship. Show us. If this has been done, point me to it, and I'll be glad to read it. Internal discussion is great, but it doesn't mean national change.
Lastly, something I heavily disagree with, is his assertion that "in order to save the kingdom we have to stop being drawn into the metagame that has wrecked the eUS". On the contrary, I argue that the metagame is one of the only things still keeping a lot of people here. National forums? Metagame. Party forums? Metagame. IRC? Metagame. Until there is a viable in-game alternative to organizing national policy and foreign policy (and knowing the game, likely never), you're going to see the metagame used. And you're going to have to contend with the metagame user.
Shorter article, and kind of biased I admit. Really just wanted something to write about, and this was an opportunity. Have at it.
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Dead guys don't suddenly come back to life and shoot the camera.
Reporting article for false advertising.
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Yup.
Sup Naz.
Agreed with much of what was said. I will say under certain administrations it has been difficult for SFP members, mind you who are able and willing, to join the executive. SFP has easily been the most active block in the Legislative this past month. A good example of our inability to move players into the Executive Branch for national jobs is this month's administration. There was no thread created in the SFP forums for WO's campaign. He did place one SFP member in his cabinet as Secretary of DoCA, and this was Jaden. Jaden is one of the few members of SFP that is generally well liked by the community. I approached WO for a deputy position for myself, and I never received an invitation to join the team. I haven't seen any deputies listed yet on the eUS forums under Oblige's Cabinet Listing, but please correct me if I'm wrong and there is an overwhelming amount of deputies.
As for non-executive national jobs, one of our own, Franklin Stone, runs the Arm America program. Wooky Jack has been considered multiple times for USAF CO over the past month prior to WO being placed there.
Thus, being shunned by the national government, I've chose to look inward this month and work more for my party. Many in SFP have felt this way at some point. It's not like we're getting all butthurt about not being included with the cool kids, we're just saying ok you don't want our help, our party wants our help. That's an easy choice every time.
However, I'm looking forward to trying to change the rift that's developed between SFP and the other Top 5 parties. Cheers to that. Thanks for writing, I really enjoyed this.
I'd look inward for the cause of that rift. Many of y'all's politicking and general attitudes leading up to being in the T5 was "to heck with all you guys we'll do this on our own and on our own terms". Which, is all good at a party level.
On the National stage, however, you can't do things on your own nor can you continue to harbor those "us against the world" feels if you hope to accomplish anything contrary to the status quo.
hopefully we'll be able to look at it from all angles, both inward and outward in the coming month,
I can do what I want
Very insightful. I'll have to right a article about my thoughts in regards.
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I hope you stick around man.