A shot across the bow of the Nation.
Muglack
The issues with Canadian politics aren't nearly as complex as those from the outside looking in think they are. In fact, when it's boiled down the problems are quite simple.
The first step in assessing the problems with the Canadian political system is to look at the Country itself from the ground up. Canada's population, for the most part, is old. A huge portion of our population exceeds a year old, and an even larger portion has been eAlive for 2 or 3 years. There are tons of names I recognize that are still active from when I started playing (nearly 1000 days ago) and in general that is not a normal occurance in this game.
With that age comes a certain way of thinking. This of course can be easily equated to real life terms by way of the racist grandfather. Everybody's met one, or is related to one, and while he spits his diatribe of hate you can't do anything but shake your head and say, "He comes from a different time". Well my friends in terms of the eWorld eCanada is that racist Grandfather.
But there's another thing that comes with being a "racist Grandfather" and it's that along with being close minded, we're also incredibly set in our ways. We aren't willing to do anything that we haven't done before. This of couse is a source of incredibly strength for your country, but at the same time also causes weakness.
Traditional strength fares well agaisnt traditional problems. Someone in our community steps out of line, we have a history and proven trackrecord to deal with them. Someone steals? Dealt with. Someone releases information they shouldn't? Dealt with. This rigidity and foot in the past is an immense resource when we need to deal with a problem we've faced before. Someone does something we don't like that someone's done before, the "Oldball Collective" gets together and deals with it the same way we always have. That's the advantage of being "Oldballs", we've dealt with your kind before.
Now this tactic is great and completely successful until we run into something we haven't seen before, or something we haven't encountered in so long that even the "Oldballs" don't know what to do with it. This is the case with the current Romanian PTO and the breakdown of Canadian Politics in general.
This current election has seen 6 to 8 (depending on who you ask) PTOers elected to Congress. An incredibly high number for a first month. Assuming only 50% more seats next election for this group they could end up with as many as 12 of 40 seats next month, which puts them within striking distance of Congressional Control, and access to our Treasury.
What was the "Oldballs" solution to this looming problem? Well it was the only option they could do, pointless shouts, and articles after the fact that did absolutely nothing to stem the tide of foreigners getting elected.
You see for the "Oldballs" community, reactionary tactics have always been enough. You steal, we punish. You leak information, we punish. You act a fool, we punish. Where in that is pre-emptive action to stop the damage instead of relying on tactics to mitigate it? Nowhere.
This brings me to Party President elections. MOO has forum voting for their Official candidate, Ethel names herself PP despite the calls for democracy and the CPP elects her, EPIC is a mindless horde that clicks the name most familiar, Rolo is elected the same way, and well, the UN is the exception that proves the rule.
You see, with the exception of the UN and MOO the Top 5 parties apply "Oldballs Logic" to their PP elections. Do what we've always done and people will pick the person they always have.
This of course reaches a logic-fail when it comes to congress. There's simply too many dimensions to assume that people will click the name they always have so things can continue like they always did.
Sure there's your guarenteed Congressmen despite not earning or deserving their spots (Pimpdollaz in Ontario under EPIC is a perfect example of people voting for a name in a party, not a candidate that does a good job) but for the most part at the start of the day on the 25th 32-35 of the Congress Medals are completely up for grabs.
This is where the "Oldballs Community" completely loses it's grasp on reality. Living in relative peace for so long eCanada never had to develop a strategy for congress. We simply put up 50 to 130 names and let the cards fall where they may, and accepted it as "The eCountry's Will" and played with the hand we were dealt.
Well this month we learned that no longer works. By doing what we always have 6-8 "invaders" got medals that the "Establishment" thought they didn't deserve. We have interlopers amongst us that the high and mighty deem unworthy of such rewards. And what do they do to stop it? Well they write useless articles, and make pointless shouts that have no effect, the same as they always have using their reactonary tactics.
Well I for on don't believe in Reaction. I think it's time this country took action.
I call on the Party Presidents of the Top 5 parties to sit down and make sure this doesn't happen again.
I want the "Leaders" of this country to work together and form a plan so that eCanada isn't forced into this position on the 25th of December.
I want those who are responsible to make these decisions, to come together and work on a strategy that keeps Canada safe and doesn't subject us to the whims of outsiders simply because you aren't willing to cooperate.
Canada as it stands today has 13 regions. That's at least 2 regions per party, and 24 wildcards which can be split anyway you see fit.
Don't let your delusions of grandeur blind you to the needs of the nation.
In the coming month I want to see the parties working together to elect quality deserving congressmen and women that will move this country forward, not 33 people that happened to win the 5 gold lottery and do nothing but collect their medal and show up again next month and hope their party affiliation is enough to win 5 more.
You should be working together to see quality congressmen elected so that we as a nation win, not working against eachother so that you as a party prosper while the country fails.
This isn't a call to arms of the citizentry of this country, it's a call to arms of those with the power to actually enact change.
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I'm a racist grandfather
My two cents:
Yep.
I'm just a prick. But an organized, effecient one.
Rylde you know as well as anyone that I completely support pricks that get the job done.
In fact, I'm a member of that exclusive club myself.
Sometimes we need a drastic event to happen before we stand up and pay attention
Like the PTO of the UN - The country woke up and organized an ATO as I predicted would happen
And I got called out for it
So the next month, no PTO of a Top 5 Party and what happens? - No ATO effort and 6-8 PTO Congressman...
Hmmm - kind of like I can predict the future around here...
I'm not racist, I hate them all equally!
Here's the next tidbit
30 new active Romanian PTO citizens/voters in addition to what they already have, plus their multies
They will gain a Top 5 Party next month, they will vote smart and late. We likely won't know who the target is until it is too late for us to respond
They will succeed winning a top 5 party that may be tough to displace from the top 5
More congressional candidates they will run on their own
and the cycle continues...
I hope someone is working on a plan somewhere, I would personally like to help, but unfortunately, I do not have any forum access to participate in such a discussion
So, good luck to whoever is taking the reigns on this....
The top 5 parties can stop this if they work together.
Official Candidates for PP.
Every party posts them, they get the votes, no one else runs. Hopefully the only parties with multiple candidates are under PTO threat and they can get buffer votes. If the country works together finding 30 votes in the last couple hours isn't hard.
Once the parties are secure Congress elections are next.
The parties come together and decide which regions go to which parties.
For example the CPP gets BC, Yukon, and PEI. EPIC gets, New Brunswick, Nunavut and Manitoba, etc...
Now you have specific parties winning specific regions, and the whole country knows who to vote for and who not to. PMs are easy to send and will do wonders to control winners in small regions.
Once again we have a group of voters holding back in a Country wide SVU to make sure the intended congresspeople win.
How each party decides who to back as an official candidate is their own business, but once the list is submit, it's set in stone. Everyone needs to work off it.
If people work together, and put the country before themselves this PTO risk can be dealt with in 30 days. If we take the Romanian from their self-proclaimed 8 seats back to 0 they'll see we have it together and move on.
Conversely, if we do nothing our treasury will be trained and the country won't have a pot to piss in by Valentine's day.
If the parties are full of congressional candidates and blockers (as they were last month) we have no need for parties laying claim to their personal regions. We can have a standard *democratic* cough, cough, election
The PTOers are going to have 70 plus voters for the next PP elections, count on it...
Thats enough for them to have almost any party they want, I'm not sure the forum vote will be enough in all cases...
The problem is, there's some parties in the top 5 that won't run blockers even if the country wants them to.
If we manage to hold onto the Parties, something will still need to be done for congress. Assuming they won't get in, like we did this month, simply isn't enough.
The parties can run blockers whether they want them or not. It just needs to be co-ordinated (Hey maybe legislate that a condition of MU funding is that members must move and candidate on orders of their MU leader, or they lose funding for that month)
The PP's will be forced to run who has candidated. If they choose a PTOer over a blocker, then charge them with a crime
Thats what we can do at congress time and that is easy. The tricky party will be keeping the parties...We need to have one hell of an active PP election, with one candidate per...
Resistance is futile !
Quite an interesting read muglack. Keep on writting articles like this. I like it a lot.
Sometimes an attempted PTO'd is a great way to stay in power.
Interesting morning read, Ireland and Canada are almost identical in our trials ,tribulations and success's
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Well written, Muglack.
good read.
Some great ideas here -- lets get our collective acts together this next month...
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During last month's congress election, I "whipped" the PPs, constantly following up on their ATO plans. This was met with disdain, and I was told to back off and mind my own business because it was their shop and they had it under control. Turns out they did.
This month, I didn't press. By co-relation, unwelcome pressing on the issue had the desired effect.
Ironically, the Romulans ran a mini-Project Mayhem and it worked very well. All we need to do is counter with our own Project Mayhem.
If only we has a Project Mayhem expert of our own....
No.
Reactionary thinking.... inflexible grandfather... unimaginative. Okay, lets move laterally:
Issues: attract a modest number of foreigners to join ecanada. Retention.
Motivation: an income stream not available elsewhere.
Personal prestige. Aesthetic creation.
Unexplored capacities: artistic creation – music, art and graphic design.
Synthesis: weekly wage of $1,000 earned by creating new works of music and art.
Analogy: Canada Council for the Arts
Obstacles: Existing paradigm: “it’s a war game”.
Uh, how about you solve this problem like we do in the rest of the world ...by creating multies of your own. There are many fringe benefits in addition to their voting ability. Or you know, you could do the honest thing and create a BB somehow.
The Romanians are desperate, but it surprises me that they would try to PTO long time allies like you and China. Then again, allies were the ones willing to give them citizenship so there you go.
And another thing: maybe being set in your ways is preventing you from reevaluating who your friends and enemies are from time to time.
When you look up magnificent bastard, you see a picture of Muglack. All in all a good read.
Muglack for President?
Muglack for president!
~hyuu~
So you guys run your ATO campaign and rig the vote in favour of your chosen list of candidates and now you are complaining about the quality of people voted into congress?
LOL, so funny!
Whats going on?
Muglack for President x3