Vote Ronald Gipper Reagan for President! - Plus a Call to Fix the Political Module!
Ronald Gipper Reagan
You have all heard my spiel many times before in the past, so there is no need to rehash it. I am going to make this argument as clear as possible. eRepublik in general is on the decline, and the eUSA is certainly part of that. There are barely over 700 active voters today in this country. To put this in perspective when I got 41% of the vote against Fluffer's puppet in January, 2013 I received nearly 1000 votes for Country President. There have have been times where there have been over 4,500 voters in the US. I still remember when I ran for America's Advancement(AAP) Party President in 2010 and I messaged nearly 2,000 party members! Those days seem like a distant memory.
We have come a long way, and in the wrong direction. Frankly, most people who play now are pretty disinterested. So I will ask you this....Why not make me President? Either you will love what I will do, or you will love to hate it. At least it will be interesting! So stop being such a tool by voting for who you are expected to vote for. Vote RGR!
I also wanted to make a commentary on the political module, which we all know is broken. This is the longest time I have ever gone in the eUS without being able to rebuild a major party. The reason is pretty simple. The mechanics are now heavily rigged against changing the status quo. The Dictatorship feature being implemented is just the latest one, but the changing of Congress Elections beginning in September, 2012 was the biggest by far. It was obviously extremely annoying having to worry about being sniped all over, but at least we knew it was possible to win Congress seats almost every month. When you have a top five party the new system makes it very convenient, but it also removes all the strategy elements from it. This was always a mixed bag for me. Sometimes we would do better than expected, and sometimes we would do worse because the other parties would always gang up on our candidates, but at least it was something. Of course if you ever lose a top five spot then you are in big trouble. You can thank certain people's "children", importing people from eUS government puppet states, and general deceit of the populace at large for that.
Nowadays the power is concentrated in the oligarchy of a handful of Party Presidents. I think it is pretty nice when hundreds of people get the opportunity to run, even if most will not actually get elected. If you work at it your chances of winning are reasonably good. When I was Party President of the #1 AFA after the new elections were implemented, there could be something like 150 people wanting to run for Congress and something like fewer than 20 could get in. That was always difficult because I do not like disappointing people who I feel deserve to be rewarded by being able to serve in Congress. There are still some to this day who I regret have never gotten the seat which they deserve, or did not get it more times.
Anyway, let's hope there is some sort of political "game-changer", and I hope those of you reading this will help make that possible. Of course I would love to see domestic PTO's become as difficult as foreign PTO's, but Plato does not seem interested in that. It is a shame, because I would have helped build the longest lasting top party in the country a long time ago if that were the case. eRepublik had a lot of potential years ago, and I feel it has been squandered. Believe me, two clicking and running troll campaigns for the Presidency is not what I had in mind. I want to show that the good guys can win in the end. So I ask you, help me make it a reality!
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Happy Easter and Passover to all!
Ronald Gipper Reagan
American Patriot
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Pole Suerte 😃
My voting priorities if I were an American
1- Me
2- everybody else
3- 50 feet of dog s**t
4- not you
5 - oblige 😢 😃
et tu zucker? :/
ad infinitum Whalus
But you are not American packy so ...
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Hey Ajay, how goes it?
In broad strokes, I agree that the political module lost a lot of its spirit when we switched to party ballot elections.
Also, it's just a hypothetical question, but what would your reaction be if you were elected CP, but the dictator position remained with someone else (say Wild Owl or Trekker)? Would you be satisfied, or would you then feel obligated to try and stage a revolution so you could have all the buttons?
one thing is for sure, Ajay would really be a dictator- unlike the current puppet!! lol
The only thing you regret is being such an utter and complete failure. Not a failure vis-a-vis the people you "disappointed," but a failure according to your own twisted, selfish ambitions. And fail again you shall, and again, and again, until nobody's left but you. And that will be your biggest failure of all.
I do not vote traitors and delusional people into office.
Good luck!
For the REAGANLUTION!!!!
hail regan
Wry u live in the past? No one wants you in the present either.
Will never happen.
Ever.
Then ya'all can enjoy ruling over a declining population... because unless the game mechanics are changed significantly this pattern won't break. This is the all-time low point for eRep.
the game is dead for quite a while now. You cant bring it back to life. no one can. it has reached it's end.
are you saying you'll increase the population?? kekekek
prolly would happen, the fanged claws of your shadow would creep into eRep HQ and put a spell on them!!
Messiah complex -- another sign of your obvious personality disorder.
I actually read your article.
Nicely written.
I agree with many of your points.
Yeah, most of the commenters here should actually READ the article. He brings up a few really good points concerning the political module.
As I've been saying for a long time, Ajay is actually really smart and an excellent writer. If only he wan't a troll
The only way certain people would "accept" me is if they had no idea I was me at all.... so it's a little hard not to be? but thanks.... vote for meat least 😉
me at least**
VOTE FOR MEAT!!
o7 With u bro , goo to win..
no vote because of the last pic..
better post tits than this christian s**t
that is sacrilegious 😛
RGR has a weak spot for the crucifix!!
So did Regan in The Exorcist.
Real Life begins with Christ.
Cheers
Surely more than half of the world disagrees with you, me too (I'm pagan 😛) JasherOOO lol
What are you afraid of? Life? Christ?
me afraid? nooo... only any religion (and religious people) give me goosebumps!!~
While I agree religion comments should be omitted from our gaming, your response offended me in three ways. Congrats.
Welcome to the internet
I think your offence, that real life begins with christ, telling everyone else they live a fake life, is beyond all proportions.
Whiskey Go Go, I haven't told you anything. I don't preach to people and certainly haven't told anyone they live fake lives. At the same time you are accusing me of some imagined transgression against you and/or others.
What I did do is inform Igor that his response offended me from his belittlement of people's beliefs, his inclusion of an unnecessary expletive and the degradation of my gender. None of which was IMO necessary.
o7
I think that voting RGR for president would cause such a shitstorm that we would see a population boom...or at least a return of multitudes of old players...or at the very least a marked increase in activity with the handful of people left around here. How many people, just in this comment section alone, have eBlood spraying out of their ears with rage and hate?
With the dictator in place, the president is more or less just window dressing, so really little to no harm would be possible.
TLDR; Eh, why not?
I'm inclined to agree with you.
good luck o/
lol you are surprising me Laura and I really thought that you would stay longer in eGermany after I helped you to get the cs back ... @_@ good luck then in Romania...
i know and i am sorry because i didn't stayed more time, but i just don't understand why in the last time i just can't find my own place in this game, it's a really crazy thing...🙁((
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Give him a shot! He can't make things any worse. Who knows he might turn things around. He is very aware of this game and should do as well as prez as anyone else we have had.
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I wrote to admins ages going say how the congress election are not like real life, as in real life anyone can run you just need enough votes right now it just the same old faces and this pushes people away and is to blame for not letting many people have a chance at congress.
Good article