In Pursuit of Happier Times

Day 1,892, 01:29 Published in USA United Kingdom by wingfield

This is the sequel to yesterday’s article, in which I summarised earlier articles and warned about the current SPQR nonsense. I apologise if it is too long for some. This theme does not lend itself to pictures!

We have been hearing a little too much of Empire, whether American or New Roman. I argued yesterday that Empire was not a good thing. I included a famous quote from Tacitus:

Auferre trucidare rapere falsis nominibus imperium, atque ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant.

Now I’ll let you have the translation. This is the full version, not the truncated bit you see most of the time:

To robbery, slaughter, plunder, they give the lying name of “empire”; they make a desert and call it peace.

What worried me yesterday was the risk that SPQR will absorb the current American “Unity” process and simply continue the rule of those who have run this country for four years, to the exclusion of all others.

Now it is not so bad that the AFA and their friends are excluded. They want to take over this country anyway. They want to weaken us, for the benefit of eSerbia and her associates. We have worked together as Americans for a long time now, to work against the constant threat.

However, there are limits to our patience!

For how long must we be denied freedom of association and the choice of our own political party, rather than being pushed from one to another to keep up numbers?

For how long must we be silent and refrain from suggesting negotiation or compromise?

For how long are we to be prohibited from using in-game rights and functions and have to do everything through a rotten undemocratic forum?


For how long must we be prevented from running for office without the approval of our masters?


For how long are we to be impoverished simply because our masters want to discourage Serbians from moving here for the same resource benefits they enjoy at home?

For how long must we distance ourselves from our long-term friends and cozy up to old enemies instead?

eRepublik has a FIVE party system.

What gives people the right to abolish this in the eUS? We are being treated as if there were only a single party, namely Unity.

Why hasn’t Plato abolished the five party system if it is so bad?

Hopeful signs

In my own party, We The People, I was inspired when Mazzy Cat put herself forward for the party presidency, on a platform of democratization of the Congressional candidate selection process. She put this into practice after becoming party president. Too few members took the opportunity to register and vote on the forum. Perhaps the forum is the wrong way to make such decisions.

Nevertheless, progress has been made in my party and the American Military Party soon followed suit.

One way to make the process more available to members is to seek votes through article comments. Only valid party members would get their votes actually counted, and so on.

New parties and independent thinking

I am encouraged by the rise of Vox Populi and the continued survival of the Socialist Freedom Party. These two groups maintain an independent line and work within the Unity process. However, they must be wondering when, if ever, they will be allowed to operate in complete freedom.

Strong “6th parties” are good. That is the way the Federalist Party began long ago. When I joined it in April 2009, it was ranked 9th. We got out there and recruited and campaigned for our own agenda, which included not being the puppets of the Top 5 parties or the eUS government. It would have been great for the Feds to have stayed that way, but that is another story.

It is our game, too!

In essence, many Americans are heartily sick of being left out, for the sake of defeating a common enemy. Perhaps they are wishing, in the words of Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet, “a plague on both your houses.”

What is the difference between a crowd that wants to burn the house down and another that wants to exclude most of us from having any say in how it is run?

If they had made a better show of running this country over the last four years, then we might be willing to give them many more chances. However, now it is time to fix the mess.

I finish with another quote from Tacitus, writing this time after the overthrow of Domitian’s tyranny in 96 A😨

… rara temporum felicitate ubi sentire quae velis et quae sentias dicere licet.

…the rare happiness of times, when we may think what we please, and express what we think.] Tacitus, Histories, 1

That is what Americans want now!