You are Doing it Wrong
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Master Lobban Le Rub Klitoris
With the words of St Krems I bring to you the proposal.
Dear Canada,
Canada, I think you should kill your political parties. Hear me out, I also think you should disband the government military and become a country lead by a militia-political complex. Let me explain why.
The current political system we have is essentially different groups of friends vying to see who can recruit the most newbs to their party to vote in elections. There's no reason for this other than to boost their own power and there's no differences in political ideology between parties. While these parties have produced many outstanding individuals who have contributed to the country in sundry ways the parties themselves have done nothing for this country and the ongoing efforts at recruitment serve only to benefit the individual parties and do little to further the cause of Canadian.
My Modest Proposal is to re-invigorate Canadian politics, make it interesting again for players, make the differences between parties actually matter, and make the running of them actually of benefit to the country. In essence, my proposal is to abolish the idea of political parties as we know them today, the parties of cliques and friend groups, and replace them with the political wings of our various militias and military groups.
It has become increasingly clear to me that the nature of the game has changed and that our current political system is a hangover from the days when our government was run by roleplaying scrabs. This game is now about war, and our political system should reflect this. Congress debates should no longer be about the merits of one set of congressional codes over another but about the best way of supplying a militia and how to recruit more newbies.
Allow me to sketch out my vision fully. No official government military, all funding goes to various competing militias who all either run their own political party or perhaps are in coalition with another militia in a top 5 party. The current 'politscrab' parties full of people without much interest in the war module could be consolidated into one top 5 party, introducing real differences in the visions of our top 5 political parties. Furthermore, introducing politics to militias will give them a chance to get involved in the running of the country and give them an incentive to recruit newbs (While newbs may not produce much damage they have the same number of votes as a tank, giving each militia/party a real incentive to try and catch and retain newbs).
This proposed change would eliminate the, basically, dead-weight of the political parties on our country, make politics about the things that actually matter in this game (how to produce damage and the best places to concentrate it/what type of militia is best (RP vs Laid back ect)) and give the people who are the real decision makers in this country (I promise the president spends more time speaking with militia leaders then congressional leaders) an official place in our government.
Anyway, mull it over, and let me know what you think Canada. Oh, and don't worry about how we would actually make it happen. Political parties have only held onto power in this country because their existence is mandated by game mechanics. If we found a better use for them that would eventually be what happened. I hope to hear from you soon.
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😃R - The political parties are currently pretty useless, they bicker about useless crap like 'congressional procedure' on forums. There only goals should be to providing support to new people while supplying them for war in addition to there MU's supplies.
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Now try and enforce this.
with the military fist 😃
Not with the game's mechanics.
This will never happen
Delightful copypasta, bro
I know, I wrote his name at the very beginning mate
Yeah, like you'd notice that.
There hasn't been an official government military for years. The CAF severed ties with the government when funding became available for all MU's.
thats not what this was getting at...
go back to making multiple accounts, it's funner and more productive trying to spot them then listen to anything you have to say 😃
dont read it then...
You thought I read you article?
not really mine 😛
Rivalry is the force of progress. The dictatorship of the majority doesn't play well with military objectives/objectiveness.
Speaking in a purely academic conjecture, the empowerment of Military Units through parties would basically turn the political and military landscape upside down, focusing politics on the battlefield. The elite, 20-something-member MUs would be at a disadvantage against rivals who accepted low-level-damage members but had negligible military presence.
Also, defining the "political" status through damage would not only keep things as they are, it would empower the older/paying masses in detriment of weaker people, eliminating the already very weak process of political rejuvenation.
Also, turning the country into a one-party-fits-all style of government (with politburo-like attributes, placing all the political elites in one place) would create an even great level of inequality and unproductiveness, creating and/or approving people who'd only followed a strict set of rules (well... much like Congress Forum Rules).
I'm not obviously counting the ego factor in the equation because for all this to happen, it would mean putting them aside.
In short, a militaristic government is no government of mine.
Voted for the food for thought,
Salazar Tyranossaurus Balls
We are in a war game where it is suicide for us to actually go to war with anyone.
Every nation in eRepublik has a role to play.
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