Candor: The Peoples President.
Candor
42°13′48″N 76°20′16″W:
Following the announcement of my intention to run for President of The United States, I have spent many hours discussing the composition of my new Executive government, and the new Round Table coalition leadership that I will be forming.
Many of you have asked to hear bold new plans for the team, and have asked about current relationships with the world’s nations as well as proposals for future relationships.
You are salivating for a meaningful war.
I want to broaden, today, your understanding of what the future of my Executive will look like, and why such a revamping will now necessarily take place.
Some months ago, a previous Executive set out to free our nation from the confines of Balkan centric engagements. The idea was glorious, and bold. It was equally dangerous and risky. It was a gamble that, had we succeeded, would have freed the nation to more independently choose our battlefields and consequently provided diversity for our military strategists and soldiers.
But alas, our gamble failed. And today we find ourselves repaying our creditors and friends and necessarily rebuilding trusts that were betrayed in the losing bargain.
I want you to know that I supported the concept of a canvass free of Balkan chains, and that I took the gamble along with many other players and national leaders of the time. We rolled the dice, we lost. We pick up and move on. Retrench and rebuild.
Our current and traditional style of Executive leadership resembles a pyramid, with the President at the top disseminating directives to subordinates who further disseminate to ever larger audiences. The further one gets from the pinnacle of that pyramid, the less likely it is that your voice will be heard, let alone given consideration.
But within this nation, we are a team. And as we sail together, we share in success, or sink together.
And so I am proposing a new style of national leadership which more closely resembles an inverted pyramid. And in this system your Executive staff and President will organize and function as the facilitator for our teams (our customers) success. Never again will the team be at risk for the decisions of a few, but together we will enter into compacts which guide our collective futures.
This new style of Executive will consist of a Round Table of peers, one Representative from each party (T5’s and all significant 6th parties as well) who will outline and vote on the nations future policies. The President will facilitate discussion within the Round Table and collect a consent agenda for the Executive to implement and execute.
These Round Table representatives will be expected to participate with civility and with the shared goal of positive and always forward momentum for the nation, our team. The Representatives will be given full access to all available information, and will further be able to watch the implementation via read-only access to the President's Daily Briefing, where RT positions will be disseminated.
You as citizens will have the opportunity to express your views via guest passes to sit at the Round Table, but regularly through your parties Representative to the RT. Your RT Rep will equally be expected to report to you, as well as the nation, their positions on RT discussions as well as their view of the process and implementation, both positive and negative.
We will for once be playing this game as a team, from the bottom to the top. The Executive will be working for you to implement your wishes, rather than their own. The legacy of this Administration will be shared, for better or for worse.
This will be the most open Administration and form of government in the history of this nation. Our friends will know where they stand, as will foes of our nation.
In setting the example for inclusive governance, it is our hope that foreign policy will remain more consistent, open, and dependable in the future.
Some of you have already been contacted and asked to be a Representative to the Round Table of the Executive, and you may request to represent your party via direct PM if you wish.
No one party will have greater voice than another, each party will hold one seat. Non-participatory members will be replaced, and members who are continually impediments to the productive forward motion of the nation will equally be replaced.
Party politics will be checked at the door. The RT will operate as the nations Board of Directors to the profit of its investors. And those investors are you.
And now, in response to those of you who have asked for the specific agenda of my Presidency? It isn’t my agenda that you will elect, but that of your own. I’ll make no statement that constrains or ties the Round Table from deciding the direction of the nation. And to that Round table, I shall remain a faithful servant.
Ours is the greatest group of players ever assembled; the most creative strategists, the most patriotic loyalists, the most resilient nation in eRepublik. Together we have the strength to overcome any obstacle and tackle any challenge.
I’m offering you the key to your nation. A new beginning. I believe in you, and I believe we are up to the challenge.
Comments
First People.
Nice article, would not be disappointed with a Candor presidency.
The CNTL experiment was a risk which didn't work out. The Round Table is a risk as well, but one with much higher likelihood of success. Template? Interesting times.
Unifyng.
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Yes!
These are interesting ideas. Any president that makes the game interesting is a good one in my opinion. Good luck to you, Candor.
Hail King Arthur!
You have my vote Candor.
-SVV
Interesting to hear about this turnaround in the Administration, or perhaps inversion. Whatever the case, it can't hurt listening to more voices and weighing the options together, as challenging as that is in a browser-based environment at times. gl
Candor greatness is shown by the simple fact that he is respected by both the elites and the revolution.
That's POTUS material right there.
Endorsed
"We will for once be playing this game as a team..."
If every team could succeed in doing this, then we'd have a game really worth playing.
Good luck! o7
Good luck mate. Exceptional idea.
You won't win, they haven't hand picked you.
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Candor rocks.
Nice Read, Thanks and good luck!
Best wishes,
loft
Candor for PP!!
NEUTRALITY RECRUITING
http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/neutrality-recruiting-2180079/1/20
So let me see if I get this right. Elect Candor president, and he gives a psychopath a vote in the way this country is run. Why don't you just come out and say you have switched sides Candor? Your article certainly eludes to that.
Candor greatness is shown by the simple fact that he is respected by both the elites and the revolution.
That's POTUS material right there.
Endorsed x2
amen.
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I'll be voting John Jay this time. Good luck though.
" Elect Candor president, and he gives a psychopath a vote in the way this country is run. "
it is a workable and quite inspired idea. It is true that AFA= Hurt America. It is true that Ajay Bruno is no friend to America. Candor' idea mitigates the damage. He hasn't switched sides, just found new ground.
Very good idea! Voted and good luck!
For clarification, will an AFA representative be given access to the PDB?
Synesi: Everyone on the Executive Round Table (all T5's and most larger 6th's) will have read-only access to level 3 PDB where we discuss most everyday things.
Sensitive items will be kept confidential as absolutely necessary, and on a need to know basis, but the ERT will be given everything they need to know to make informed choices in my Cabinet.
The AFA will indeed have a Representative in the ERT.
I fully support your goals!
Any president who is not Ajay Bruno or one of his Serbian pals is cool by me.
Seems like the only person who dislikes Candor is the guy running against him, John Jay.
Candor, you would be an fantastic President and I'm incredibly happy to see you running. I'll back your candidacy through the election!
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@Alexander MacArthur: not actually true, but as this is an internal WTP issue other people are steering clear. Personally I fill fight with every ounce of my being to keep all and any PTOers from gaining any traction in their search to con everyone into considering them even vaguely legitimate as a party.
Interesting perspective Artela, but he isn't running for WTP PP and few of the above posters are WTP members.
Plus if he has a way to bridge that divide with Ajay Bruno and his cronies, then he could leverage that.
http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/politics-we-the-people-for-congress-2179849/1/20
WTP congress.
FIST
This would certainly make things interesting. : )
LoL @ former ONE President Artela calling ANYONE a PTOer when she came here and latched on to public enemy #1 Fluffer immediately...
The less worst is better than the absolute worst...!
Voted and supported!
Sure, lets give the pto a voice. Brilliant.
What makes a legitimate party, Artela? That's a very subjective take and not befitting of the intelligence I know you possess.
If the #1 spot in the country and the highest amount of congress votes months in a row doesn't do it, I don't know what it takes. The USWP (RIP) once was in a similar position, and received a similar amount of criticism from the general populace of the eUSA - were they illegitimate as well? Or is there an objective concept of "real" eAmerican which they fulfilled the criteria for.
Candor is not singling out the AFA to receive any special treatment. He's giving a seat at the table to a group that wields tremendous influence. I think it's important for everybody to start thinking the same way. Doing otherwise will only delay the inevitable.
In Candor we trust. o7
Overjoyed to see you setting policy that is inclusive, as opposed to being exclusive. I wish you the best of luck on election day.
Very good idea and may indeed help heal our country to boot!