Dear eAmerica
Day 2,146, 00:13
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by Melissa Rose
I started writing an article about a week ago, but couldn't finish it. I had a sort of mental block that I just couldn't get past. Partly because there were so many well worded endorsement articles out there, but mostly because I didn't truly believe in what I was writing.
As most of you know from my previous articles, in order for me to write something I have to believe it, I have to feel it and it has to be personal for me.
Over the last week I have watched article after article come out about Josh Frost. I've read all of them and considered everything that was said. In all honesty I wasn't sure I believed any of them. I read Josh Frost’s own articles with skepticism. I didn't believe that he would be able to accomplish his goals or that he even believed them himself. (I am sure there are some of you that would have agreed with me) To me he was just another candidate blowing smoke and telling me what he thought would get my vote.
Today I went back and reread all of his articles to prep for eNPR and I really digested them. Even with that I still wasn't sure I believed. Then, after hearing him on eNPR, something changed. I started to believe. I could hear it in his voice. He actually believed in what he was saying. I felt more hope for our country after listening to him then I have felt since I came back to game.
I was inspired
I realize that some of you still won’t believe, no matter what I say or anyone else says, but I truly believe in him. More importantly I believe he can accomplish everything he has stated, but he can’t do it alone. He needs all of our help. We need to be willing to put aside our petty bickering and work together if we are going to help him accomplish his goals. That doesn’t mean we should be sheep and just do what he asks without question, but we need to be open minded to his ideas and be prepared to make the sacrifices needed.
All of this Party fighting and competition only accomplishes one thing, it hurts us. It keeps us vulnerable. I challenge each and every one of you to put aside your spite and your bickering and attempt to actually work to improve the Country instead of your own Party.
I don’t think that is asking too much, do you?
"I would rather rot in hell for all of eternity for standing by my principles, than get into heaven by leaving those principles behind"
Dear eAmerica
http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/2326121/1/20
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First for Country!
Ty for the kind words!!
nice smile..like always ^_*
vote ofc.
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Country > Self
I like that quote at the bottom of your article! 😛
it's a great quote! 🙂
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Voted!
Not that I needed any more convincing to vote for Frost, but a Rose endorsement would be enough to cinch any deal.
Yay for the kitty!
FOR THE CHANGE THAT DEVELOP EUSA TO A GREAT NATION FOR FORST
Needs girlpics...
There's one right above the signature.
"... work to improve the Country instead of your own Party."
I don't see how my activities to improve my party can be wrong, harming to the interests of our community or counterproductive to the goals of the eUSA.
Josh's idea to structure the political system from the Government level is a dangerous endeavour: it limits the already limited political module and won't make us more tolerant towards accepting our differences and open to the ideas of others.
A consensus is created when we are able to synthesize all the driving forces in our eNation, not when we demand political conformity!
The key to success is more activity and more focus, not more followers.
Sometimes I think your problem is you only hear what you want to hear.
"We need to build a strong Top 5, and I believe it is the Government’s job to do that."
Josh Frost
"it limits the already limited political module and won't make us more tolerant towards accepting our differences and open to the ideas of others." Explain to me how recognizing that there are literally no policy differences between the Top 4 parties and that their most important function is a game mechanic one will make us intolerant. I'm not limiting political thought and I am not robbing anyone of their right to free speech. Your argument is invalid.
If we would want to develop our political system better, then we should have 5 strong parties that represent the interests of different groups in our society. I can imagine the AMP representing the interests of soldiers, working in communes and fighting in USAF or AIM, the USWP representing those who want to work for a high salary or start their own businesses or the WTP-ers representing medium sized self-sufficient members of our community, Feds could... you get the point. I don't expect it to happen any time soon, but i find it a good way they should develop.
Concluding that there is no difference between them and suggesting the solution is to artificially create another one is not helpful in that regard, it is only helpful to keep AFA out of Congress. Look at how many "leftover" parties we have unintentionally created by ATO efforts, Look how many 6th parties have emerged because of people's dissatisfaction with the former "Unity" policy.
Josh, I see you are degrading the whole political module to an ATO instrument, but we already have done that, and here we are.
We don't need the government involved in creating top parties; the Government has already a lot of things to take care of and in order to change things we need more active players enjoying all modules in the game. A dull political one that serves only one purpose can't be appealing and sure won't help us keeping the new ones interested.
I said it many times before: we need to combat the AFA not only through ATO, but much more on a political level! Therefor we need more transparency, political and governmental, in order to have interesting public debates for people to experience. If we are unable to prepare the right political stage to do so, it will be our fault!
1. For 5 years these parties have had the opportunity to differentiate themselves according to policy... what's the hold up?
2. 6th Parties did not emerge because of Unity. We have always had tons of them.
3. A Unity process that is over because we attacked RGR's party like I said we should mind you.
4. I'm not degrading anything. The political module has and always will be like this.
5. Your method of combat doesn't work. Mine does.
1. You should be more able to answer this one as having far more experience in politics. I don't know if an attempt was ever made bring it onto this path.
2. We also had many active people leaving for the 6ers because of it.
3. Unity is over because of many factors, ATO is one of them
4. The political module is what we make of it!
5. My method would need an political environment we don't have. To put it to work means to create it first.
The game has changed Valiant Thor and the way we need to think about what we do needs to change with it, or we lose every time.
We have more influence over the game then the creators would like us to believe.
We do but the way the game is played has changed. We changed it. The party's have very little, if any differences other than personality anymore. If we continue to play with the old mindset of Party politics we will never succeed in defeating the PTO. Once we accept the fact that we really have no differences we can actually start working to correct the issues that we ourselves have created.
You call for political conformity that serves a higher purpose.
I call for a higher purpose that needs no political conformity.
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lol
1. i like cookies
2. Santa exist >😃
3. our government is corrupt 😐
4. afa4life we will never give up >:3
5. Poland and Spain have been liking our boost of our territory's
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