Are we a team? November POTUS election system (wwit?).
Candor
There persists a national malaise in our nation, and it infects us like rot, growing and spreading from the poisoned soil, into the trunk, and making brittle every branch of our government.
Some would say it began with the Admins, and some would say it began with Ajay Bruno. Some say the malaise set in with the arrival of the iNCi and some point a finger at Glove and his time in office, and an open borders policy.
But I don’t believe any of those are the cause of our nation’s current concerns, and resulting malaise. These are things that we like to point to, because they are simple things to quantify and to debate.
No, I believe our true malaise began with the dismantling of the the eUS Military community and the rise of a new mentality, where destruction of dissent was made a priority, and the powerful worked hard at any cost to maintain that illusion of power, if not actual power itself.
It began with the belief that the “team” was an abstract “eUSA” rather than the people who populate that nation. It began with the idea that “winning”, whatever the hell that is in this silly game, was beating the other “team” in the latest military endeavor, never mind the repetition of it all.
It began when some forgot that the nation, the “team”, is you and I the citizens, and the backbone of the nation.
And like a tree, with that poisoned soil, the rot crept up further and further, until now we have a nearly fully corrupted and grossly deformed semblance of a “team” and nation remaining. The skeleton is here, and there are healthy limbs sporadically, but the soil is weary and drained.
What was that poison? And where did it come from?
This guy plays for himself.
It came from the selfish need for power for powers sake. And so I use that dismantling of our first large community, the original eUS Military as my origin of poison. It's a benchmark in time, though this was building before that. Because that was a power struggle, for powers sake. And the losers were 500 community members, for whom almost no one spoke up in defense of.
I don't believe most understood the power creep that it represented, and the implications to follow. At the time, we had three branches of government. After that, just two. And now, with the constant attempts to control Congress (and Congresses mechanical powers) from the Executive, barely more than one.
When it was apparent that destroying the largest community in the nation had no immediate serious repercussions, the same poison was spread throughout the nation. And communities died, spirits died. People left, and didn’t return.
When you read the comments below, those who disagree will be those who spread that same poison today. They’ll say it’s your fault that you don’t work for it. They'll say it's the Admins fault, it's a shitty game. But frankly I’m quite tired of those lines.
This article area has been removed, as the elction system of last month will not be used again this month, negating the story.
Since this article released last night, I've heard that a different system from last month will take place. Each party will hold Primaries, and the winner of those primaries (4 candidates in total) will go forward to the nation for a popular vote. Anyone in the nation could vote in that popular vote.
This system would mirror exactly the mechanical process in game.
Now, for those who are concerned with meta voting systems, I've been told there isn't major opposition to an article vote in game for the general election. Open and free for all to see.
Now in some ways that sucks, since your vote would be public, and maybe you don't want everyone to know how you vote. But it sure would be a fool proof system, and fair.
Discuss? I welcome civil input.
I now return you to your regular programing
You can work as hard as you want to. But unless you play the “game” the way they want you to play it, you won’t get far. They don’t respect you or your community. They play for their own power and prestige.
Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country. Right?
If you’re playing for power, your not building your team, you’re contributing to it’s destruction.
And while the final blow may come from AJ and the Serbs, we’re on this brink because so many before have viewed “winning” with far too much “I” and not enough “you”. As in, for you and the team. Too many POTUS's have believed the war gaming far more important than the community, the people, the players. War was more important than you. While in truth, the nation can't be secure without you. No matter how many tanks can on their own win so many wars.
Rome rotted from within, and so are we.
Hate me for saying it. But I’ve always played for you and the team, not for “I”. How many others can say the same thing? Not enough.
Can we salvage the nation at this point? Yes we could.
Will we? Not playing by the same rules we've been playing with the last two years. That style has nearly sunk us. To save the nation will take a new style of "team". A traditional definition of the word.
If you are respected and given the opportunity to be involved in a democracy, I expect you'll become engaged again, as will new players. But no one likes to be peasants working for a King.
If you're treated like little more than war damage, well, being war damage isn't very much fun, and I expect you'll continue to leave.
A few ideas to get us there? To rebuild the nation?
1) Elect a new POTUS every month. Advisors are great people too.
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2) 80% new Congressmen each month, and encourage any and all discussions. New Congressmen like to rehash old topics, It's new to them, ya?
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3) PP's should swap out as well, they'd make fine lifetime advisors.
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4) A President should focus on domestic leadership, there are plenty of people available to communicate internationally and set war strategy. There's only one recognizable leader to non-meta players in game. 80% of our citizenry. But ain't that a boring job description aye? Still, it's necessary, as any POTUS'S PM's will testify to, yes? Build and retain players, build our nation. Repulse PTO's.
Provide mechanical leadership opportunities and people will engage again. Ball hog them, and expect folks to keep moving on to better war games.
To do this will take a new attitude from the people traditionaly holding power. An attitude that says building people is more important than holding titles. For the nation.
Selfless play.
The start of a new nation?
Your Nominations:
USWP Pfeiffer
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AMP George Armstrong Custer
AMP John Largo
AMP Cerb
All above would make good Presidents.
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FED Dennis McVicker
FED Molly Emma
Love to see either, good choices.
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WTP PoP
WTP Rainy Sunday
WTP George Griffin
WTP Oblige
WTP Daineal Mac Carthaigh: Outstanding Platform Article Here
And then there's iNCi.
If they go their own way, AFA wins.
I've no idea what their plans are, but if they were to sell their influence to the AFA, we're sunk. It would be to everyone's advantage that they not become a T5 atm.
~I publically apologize to Pfeiffer for an earlier assumption made here regarding an iNCi connection, it was an assumption made without fact or merit, and I'm sorry for it.
Note: I'll post 'em as you nominate them, as well as platform articles, if you give me links.
You want to talk war today? We're winning, p-solid atm. We're there and they aint here. Not worth the chatter at the moment frankly. We're two weeks away from a significant probability PTO. Then we impeach, if we have 66% of Congress, and that's looking iffy too.
Dutifully Submitted,
Help us help you eAmerica. Join us
Comments
I like the part where anyone who disagrees with you is trying to kill the community, that bit was good.
Please: teamplay. Convincing.
WTP is loyal opposition, but is still opposition to trrbl elite.
And people say we have a democracy.
Silly Them, Candor decides.
This man speaks truth and our current POTUS, well, he speaks a load of bullshi*.
*Clap**Clap**Clap*
Malcom is afraid to say bullshit. 😃😃
I blame it on shear ego. Ego has absolutely no place in a game where you play as a group. Ask anyone who's been on that team (or group) that won the championship. All the way from High School to the Pro's.
As a die-hard member of that eUS Military community at the time, the dissension and conclusion were hardly one sided. When Reala led us to that divide, we gladly jumped. While it is true that there were those who worked to destroy the JCS. Communication and cooperation have to go both ways. Compromise was viewed as treason. The leaders of both sides claim to be happy with the outcome (publicly at least).
If the prerequisite for unity is the dissolution of differing mentalities, then unity is hardly an ideal to strive for. The only way to find the ideal solution, if one even exists, is to learn from our mistakes. Which sometimes happens in baby steps, other times in leaps.
If nobody played for power, then those who end up with power would be the sheep. Blind leading the blind. Desire for power is not in itself a bad thing, it's how they use that power.
😁😁😁😁😁^
"Compromise was viewed as treason."
"It began with the belief that the “team” was an abstract “eUSA”
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There is a lot of this "treason" stuff about. Not appropriate. As this article demonstrates, appeals to "nationalism" "patriotism" and such are not only misplaced they harm by distracting attention from the reality of the team. The team needs leaders and at present the leaders should be ideas - in short supply. There exist hundreds of competent players.
~hyuu~
LARGO for Prez!!!!!
I always read and absorb Candor's work, but when did this news come down, and how was Cerb decided upon? I honestly would like to know, not trolling.
😁^ He was appointed October 21st (or the 20th, I'd have to look again), for the record.
It wasn't a big ceremony. I doubt ten people in the nation were invited, lol. And though a symptom of the problem (who wants to play the peasants?), this isn't the larger point of the article, hope this isn't what people take away.
clearly I was not invited.. must not be Elite enough.
This man speaks truth and our current POTUS, well, he speaks a load of bullshit! x2
Good to know I fell asleep and somehow managed to vote for Cerb while there was not even an election open for me to vote.
Bitches please. Keep pushing us.
@ Synesi, great posts.
Voted, as always with your articles, but what is the alternative?
It is awful that we crown our presidents now in the backrooms, but what else can be done when we are looking down the barrel of a PTO?
We saw how close last election was with every American party endorsing Pfeiffer; if we play idealistically we get taken over.
But.... Ajay never quits. He just gets banned for multis every couple months. Are we going to have to keep crowning our politicians forever?
If Cerb is the next POTUS, it does also make him the LAST POTUS. We can't stop them, We can't even slow them down anymore. All we can do is to batten down the hatches, fight like hell, and watch the ship go down.
By next month they will have enough people to win CP. In ~3 months they will have 60% of congress.
"We saw how close last election was with every American party endorsing " a candidate.
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Perhaps that was the problem? Try engagement and outreach, ideas and discussion and activity: traditional teamplay.
😁^ Yep.
Maybe it was close last month because it was a backroom crowning. People are disgusted by these backroom shenanigans that they either didn't vote or switched sides. Seriously if I didn't dislike Reagan aka Pizza aka Ajay so much and the AFA wasn't a PTO party I probably would have joined them.
I like the Congress Option a lot, given that the Speaker and retainers need not be in Congress to serve, we can still have some old people advising the process.
Agreed with Oliver, as well. A decision of the 'faceless majority' I spoke of, Ho-hum.
Candor for POTUS?
also, did you spell my name wrong, or that some other Largo on your list?
Not a bad article.
Has Cerb stopped saying "I am not running for Potus" or did in-game nominations this early suddenly become binding?
eUSA politics are a caos nowadays...
If Cerb doesn't win his own party or withdraws, he won't be POTUS. If he wins his own party, where he is the elected PP, and doesn't withdraw, he's a shoe in. Can't see it any other way. Knowing he would be POTUS if he were to win his own parties nomination, I fully expect he WOULD win his own parties nomination.
Pfeiffer throws the USWP.
Nothing else much matters, regardless of how Feds or WTP or iNCi go.
Discuss an alternative scenario? I'm up for hearing how it goes another way.
Thought that Cerb had turned down the nomination?...seems what I have been saying about the Unity Primaries has suddenly become reality...
@fingerguns
Is this the 'Unity Primary' you have spent days defending?...behind closed door and selected by Fluffer...what I have against Cerb is he has his Richard up Fluffer....
Cerb is in the race, from his lips to my ears. Or his pen to my eys, lol.
I refuse to vote for a candidate that has already been crowned in a back room deal.
So ten people have decided who will be the next anti-AFA candidate for POTUS?
And still you can't see why your ship is sinking?
Elites (actually only 10-15 of them - others are bots, trolls or puppets) are deciding in behalf of everyone else (except the AFA ofc) by doing so, you have taken the power away from 95% of people in our community.
And POWER=FUN, you are the main reason why eUSA has only like 10% of RL Americans playing in it. Why would anyone wanna play a puppet roleplay?
Unum: It's not such a backroom deal as the inevitable result of a flawed Primary system which chooses by a micro-delegate system rather than by popular vote.
Were this a popular vote system we used, it wouldn't be over as it is before it even began.
I have no intention of being "crowned" by a back-door deal, and I fully expect and support a popular vote or national popular primary or whatever system you guys want to use.
Also, I know I'm an old guy, but I'd like to point out that my AMP party cabinets have had higher turnover than I've ever seen there. I nudged a lot of tired veterans out so they could recharge and run for POTUS and other things, and I promoted deputies who deserved a chance.
Best article I've read in a while.
Apologies to those who have PM'd me on this article, the PM system seems to be down atm, or at least mine is. I will respond to each as soon as I can.
Cerb: I too strongly desire a popular vote system. I used this article to blaringly point out how flawed the last election system was, and, by using that system, how the outcome was predetermined if we used it again. I like and respect you, and meant no offense above.
Vanek26: No POTUS is a puppet, lest they choose to be. But every POTUS chooses where to expend their energies while in office, and what things to delegate to others. I suggest above that a POTUS should delegate over all mil strategy to a group of focused and knowlegable military (NSC?) group, though retain veto ability, as mechanicly they have that anyway. They should instead focus on domestic retention, because only they can actually have the impact in that area.
Cont: It's awfully fun to run the wars daily, I'm sure, but their energies are better spent in domestic participation, because they are the only recognizable position and person to non-meta players, in primary. Our nation is rotting but not because we lose wars. We are losing citizens. That's where a POTUS needs to focus, lest we fall over the cliff entirely. We need population, and that is our number one national security concern atm, not war. Focus on that, for the "team".
Love this article...right up my alley.
The only part where I really take exception is that if Cerb is really running, that guy is an awesome candidate! It would be a shame to totally disregard him just because he was encouraged to run by former Presidents.
Feds haven't done their primary yet, but I appreciate you keeping a list of everyone that wants to run. That will make things easier. It's nice to see so many good options this month.
Oh, also- I don't know if what I feel could be described as malaise. People play this game in their own way and I think it can be easy to get stuck in a rut when how you play isn't producing the results you want. I'm coming off a 2 year hiatus and since coming back I have decided to break out of my shell a bit and see how others play and if I can try to do things differently. I'm even running for Congress for the first time in my eLife (not as a blocker)!
Catch me on IRC if you can pls
I communicated to Cerb that I expect in a popular election he would win anyway, and without any stigma that last months system would bring. And I agree, judging by his PM's, he's a great guy.
In the larger picture, I would prefer that a POTUS serve no more than one term per year at best, to allow for an expanded experience base and further opportunity for a ton of folks (100 at least) that are easily ready to manage a group and lead the nation. They needn't be the pro, just good managers.
"And then there's iNCi.
If they go their own way, AFA wins.
They won't, they'll endo Pfeiffers choice.
This is probably why they're moving up to 5th, with Pfeiffer's support and encouragement."
Oooh, conspiracy theories! Nice!
I'd buy it if I didn't know it's exactly the opposite of truth.
I propose that we grow some players in Serbia. Slowly we will build up trust with these players, infiltrate their Congress and let a few Americans in. Then, when we have enough people there we will launch our "Free Serbia" campaign and introduce our new party to give the poor, trodden down Serbs a voice. When we finally get most of the remaining Americans moved to Serbia we will be able to control the CP election and Congress.
HAIL the United States of Serbia!
Kemal is right on this one, Candor. Pfeiffer has been directing people to WTP, not iNCi. He's asked the other parties to do the same.
Nah fingerguns, I must be wrong. How would I know...
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Admit to the AG. It is accepted by ALL scholars in every civilized nation.
"When you read the comments below, those who disagree will be those who spread that same poison today. They’ll say it’s your fault that you don’t work for it. They'll say it's the Admins fault, it's a shitty game. But frankly I’m quite tired of those lines."
This right there, tells me you are Bias and from that part on your point is mooth. Nothing more to say.
Wonder how much Ajay's bunch of red helmet wearing buffoons will attempt to extort the government for to "behave"?
Also wonder how much INCI is selling their "loyalty" to this month and what the pricetag is.
Wuh.. this is a pretty ridiculous article.