Sad but True
Day 1,564, 22:44
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by Funky 24
It's been two weeks since the Canadian Paradox Party was PTOed by Rolo Tahmasee and his gold diggers. If it were not for the spontaneous debate about pardoning this ruffian, people probably would have forgotten it altogether. Prior to the PP election I didn't see a single article from a CPP candidate. There was hardly any ATO effort and there isn't one now. The forums are dead and the members have joined EPIC or devoted their time to the CSD. There was more life from Post-PTOed MOO which was a third of the size of the CPP until Addy decided to leave. And the former core of eCanada's francophone party have made the effort to create a Quebec oriented party while the CPF and CanVision are still kicking at the can despite all suffering from PTOs. So what gives with the Paradoxians?
Prior to their PTO they were run by that typical party president of V2, such as Prince A. Joseph. Heavy on the small gifts to entice new players who never learned to advance, liberal with the quick articles filled with managerial announcements and women. You know they were just going to treat the political module as some link to growing their friends list and handout food. In V2, why run your party any differently than an MU?
Because then it becomes just like every other party out there. Another party that doesn't take itself seriously, that doesn't know itself and can't impart any wisdom or inspiration that can't be covered by an MU. Another EPIC or TCOp that just talk about participation. Yawn.
By the end it became more like the Military Dictatorship Party. I guess once you build up your friend network and have a decent 5 gold a month campaign for your members by getting them to congress, ideology takes a back seat to simply centralizing your power. So not only did the CPP become filled with drifting political zombies, it became your typical socialist elitist club where the forum is half-alive and the PP rules punitively.
I don't like Rolo or his large non-active chapters. I don't like it when people support him. But what I dislike the most is when people are dumb enough to not see how they're hypocritical to criticise him and then not provide any alternative to the two-clickers filling in their party. A hand-out PP like Prince A. Joseph or a military/MU-hermit like Ralph Kline stand no chance when a citizen like Rolo comes along who can offer a substantial bribe AND a political inspiration (rebel, anarchist, or wise-old rich liberal, doesn't matter). Maybe if either had spent time educating their party's members why whatever the CPP stood for is in opposition to Rolo's doctrine or if they had involved the whole party with good communication and a fiery ideology filled with visions for what it means to play this game with that CPP membership attached to your profile, the party wouldn't be so vulnerable.
A real founder like 00AngryMobMan00, Jacobi or Tom Hagen might do better, but when the runner-up says something like this:
"I do still believe in eCanada, there are a great many good people here. We will prevail..."
[watch as he gives up regardless a paragraph later]
"I will quit this party as soon as I see it's officially taken over. I would encourage everyone in the CPP to do the same, it's not coming back anytime soon. There has been talk of starting a new party and migrating. I won't be. Gonna head over to EPIC, hope you all join me."
then there is no hope because the CPP didn't exist any longer outside of the module, with the module nothing more than a tool to get food hand-outs after signing up. All that matters is to file out the party doors and head for the next soulless party (EPIC), where the congress members don't vote, where there is no meaning to their modus operandi and where the only redeemable quality is its intelligent leaders, who are restricted to a false ideology and can only offer reactions or long technical articles, hand-outs and successful campaigns for mediocre CPs. But hey, you're participating right? Good luck retaining them from inactivity if your message doesn't go beyond military matters and friendliness.
The CPP is dead and the people who value our democracy should celebrate it. Sad but true.
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I'm still feeling cranky despite my rant. Maybe I need to sleep...
Maybe Time for the CCCP?
Pour yourself another drink, friend.
Dierios, I believe that the natural progression is nCPP first. Then back to CPP.
Despite being involved with the destruction of CPP, I am saddened that no one wants to fight back. I enjoyed my time in CPP, but Funky's right, CPP has never stood for anything during my time (there was 30 days last summer when Jacobi was PP that I felt there was hope, but then Ethel killed that quickly).
"The CPP is dead and the people who value our democracy should celebrate it. Sad but true."
x2
Or maybe CC4CP.
Funky, are you trying to say that there is some honour in letting the CPP quietly go its way or that being more vocal about its demise after the fact would have been more honourable? Either way, it feels like a history lesson now, though one to learn from, I suppose.
CPPers shoulda run to the CPF instead of EPIC
@crisfire - had they done that they wouldn't have had a chance at the 5 Gold. EPIC was the natural choice for those who only care about lining their pockets.
Ahh, sour grapes girls...
Epic is in great shape politically, it was the best move to make given the fact we were attacked.
EIPC is a huge party but it has no flavor.
But why would Rolo take over a party? Doesn't he have his own?
He is punishing those who reject him and his methods. CPP was the latest victim, but as this article clearly describes, we deserved it. I think we were supposed to have a funeral or something as well, equally thoughtless.
I really wanted to publish an article in Canada about the fall of CPP but I can't given citizenship rules.
CPP was only Canada's top party by membership ranking. It lost the valid title some time before, not unlike DAL, and this is actually quite typical of a party life cycle.
CPP was a husk of its former self, appearing fine on the outside but hallow on the inside. CPP jumped the shark when Prince made a move for PP simply for the glory of it, not for the best interests of the party. This was evidenced by how he abused the strategic voting teams in the Ministry of Domestic Affairs.
At that point, the CPP left itself vulnerable. They were plodding along in a state of complacency, vulnerable to a PTO attempt like Rolo's. All parties run this risk.
DAL and CPF fell victim to this over a year ago, and MOO fell victim to this a few months ago. Parties should never take their collective will for granted, when they do, they are vulnerable to these threats.
Norsefire did not take over the top party in Canada when they PTO'd CPP, they took over hallow party with a lot of members. This is a painful realization, as I had to come to grips with the same thing when CPF and MOO went through this.
The lesson learned here is to take care of EPIC and TCO and MDP, don't take them for granted.
The good news is that Norsefire also is a party and it will also be vulnerable to such a threat. Patience. Patience.
I'd have to agree with Addy's analysis and it makes sense that Addy did not add the Union Nationale to the same list as MOO, CPP, and DAL. Their undoing did not occur in a silent vaccuum nor because of membership inactivity. That was straight up foreign PTO enabled by malicious eCanadians.
Another lesson to be learned there, too.
Become reborn and join or come back to the CPF. You know you want to.