[TDP] A Progressive Congress (June 25th Elections)
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by NoTie112
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Dear citizens,
The future of our political party The Dutch Progressives seemed dark, but that has completly changed over the course of the last few days. We've once again grown, while the others parties have fallen. We will soon conquer our rightfull spot back on top of the eDutch political stage.
However, the amount of members in a party is only trivial at most. More important is the small layer of active players within each party, which come up with a vision to hold on to, and which will make a good result in the coming congress elections possible. This article will represent the vision we'd like to represent.
In our history, we have and will prove ourselves by battling bureaucracy and introducing new reforms, which will weaken corruptcy, but will strengthen the efficiency within our eCountry. Vote for a progressive party who comes up with new ideas and seeks for out of the box solutions.
We've thus decided to focus on the following issues:
*Coaching & Recruitment
*International Community
*Bureaucracy
Issue 1: Coaching & Recruitment
We believe that the government should not be the most important and sole institution which should help our new citizens. As happens in real life, all sectors of daily life should be used to help them grow into our next generation of generals and presidents. This means we'll not waste our times critizing the government on this subject, but take our responsibilities as political party in establishing a healthy population growth rate.
Issue 2: International Community
We want to open our borders at all times for non-dangerous foreigners, and establish English as standard language in our country. This does not mean Dutch will be neglected; Dutch translations are encouraged, and Dutch must be allowed at all times, but not forced upon our (originally very internationally orientated) community.
Issue 3: Bureaucracy
TDP stands for an efficient country, with as less bureaucracy as possible. This means more power and less irrelevant controls on our government. The government should again have the power to make policy, instead of (sometimes not-experienced) congressmembers seizing power and scoring points on their populistic agenda. In our eyes the government should be responsible for actual policy, while congress should act as watchdog. This also means we'll absolutely not support handing juridical powers to congress, which will only result in Belgium-like situations (in which people get ousted from the community for no apparent reasons, or solely on political grounds).
If you support the points proposed in this manifest, vote for us soon (25th of June) during the congressional elections! Please use the voting advise sheet if you consider voting for us!
We wish you a happy summer - With TDP!
Sincerly,
NoTie112,
Party President TDP
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Comments
While I admire your talent for propagating stunning reform announcements, you fail to make the case for them. Why are they needed at all? Is bureaucracy inherently evil? Is it a burden on the workings of our state? Is corruptcy (that isn't even English) rampant?
And what are your reform plans? I don't see them, nor do I presume to think that I can gauge your mind. All in all, your manifesto is a presentation of problems that might not exist with a lack of solutions to them.
I don't see any refreshing new ideas. Clearly you're still in search of out of the box solutions...
Your point 3 is a Berlusconi imitation ("we'll absolutely not support handing juridical powers to congress")? You don't want anyone who can prosecute you, if I understand correctly. Are you still blacklisted?
Point 1: Yes, of course you can try to get new players to join your party. After turning the older citizens into your opponents, that's probably the only way to get your party to grow.
@broersje: Congress programms in eRepublik do never give any concrete proposals in general.. just an outline from which proposals can be concluded from (or not). After all, Congress should not have the power to dictate any strict policies or rules & certainly not by one party.
@djirtsdew: You're clearly stuck in the old dogma's of personal attacks and biased discussions. I do not have a fresh vision? Takes one to know one, I guess.
What's the difference between point 2 and article 2 of our constitution?
You really want to get rid of Dutch? Both English and Dutch are standard languages at the moment.
At the moment, we're quite open to foreigners, and to Dutch nationals.
Constitution 2: "The official languages of the eNetherlands are Dutch and English.", "All laws and government publications will be drawn up in Dutch and English."
And this cannot be changed in one term.
Do you want to make Dutch articles illegal?
-> On official levels English as main language, with Dutch as optional (instead of mandatory forcing government/congress to waste time making translations, time which can be better spent. And not to speak of the fact everyone in our country can understand English, but not Dutch)
-> On personal levels, no rules, not more bureaucracy. People may speak in freaking Serbian in eNL if they wish, as long as it doesn't contain governmental/congressional relevant information.
@NoTie: I don't want to attack you personally. I wanted to discuss the contents of your article.
And you literally say: "Vote for a ... party who ... seeks for out of the box solutions", which is what I was commenting on. By the way: Please replace "who" in that sentence by "that", since you are so keen on using "English".
And I guess this applies to all parties. New ideas are welcome everywhere.
I'm mainly asking you to point us to your new ideas, because they're hidden very well.
That's a nice clarification of your second point. You want to get back to only English as our official language, as it used to be.
And this because a: everyone understands English. As I recall the last survey that was done, there were 1 or 2 people only understanding Dutch, and not English
And b: Because doing the same in 2 languages is extra work. I'm quite confident there will always be people prepared to do the translations.
I'd like to add one more argument against:
NoTie112 wrote 9 minutes ago
Can you debunk our congress program?
Yes. You stole thousands of gold from the eNL govenment.
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It's often easier for Dutch people to read Dutch, and write Dutch. So if articles are translated to Dutch, they can read them faster. They can comment faster, resulting in more interaction...
I'd say this bilingual state is not that bad. But at least we now found one of the reforms you want to happen in the next few months. (Takes at least 2 terms, because it requires a constitution change)
What are the other reforms you are planning?
@ Missingno
If he would've done it do you really think his account would have still been playable? Even admins couldnt find who it was other then "multiple people from other countries".
Trust is the most valuable commodity in this game, unlike gold it cannot be stolen.
@Xyrrath: We haven't heard a lot from the admins. That was why congress asked NoTie repeatedly to give us the information he had. After a few weeks of nothing happening about the theft, congress posed an ultimatum. NoTie still not responding is his crime. Complete neglect of congress, so to say.
The one thing the admins told us was that it seemed an inside job. That in no way excludes NoTie, who had the passwords, so he might be responsible for the theft as well, but there's no proof of that.
@Xyrrath it's not a bannable offense if the CP transfers all the gold into his and hundreds of foreign players accounts.
I started playing after this theft that apparently occured, but isn't it a fact that one is innocent untill proven otherwise? As I understand there has been no proof?
@DaanHQ: You're absolutely right. NoTie112 is officially innocent of theft, but he is guilty of not providing Congress with requested information. For that offense, he was entered on the blacklist, barring him from holding a political function in the future.