Join the new world

Simple question: why did I join the Canadian National Coalition?
Simple answer: It was the only game in town when I joined. In the aftermath of the conquest of Canada last summer I bummed around the world a bit – meaning I tried to get enough money to travel from place to place and carry on the fight. It was that money part that got to me. I’m not a money market speculator and at the time I wasn’t e-rich (I’m still not e-rich for that matter) and there was a tendency where ever I landed for me to get fired whenever I took a job... often the day I took the job. Finally I said screw it, and when I discovered that Canada was back on the map I headed Prince Edward Island with the attitude that if I was going to die (in the game) I’d at least die a Canadian. It wasn’t an idle threat either – if things didn’t get better I was perfectly ready to drop out of the game and let SledDog die.

When I got back to Canada there was nothing. There was a government in exile that had come back from exile but with not much authority until the next elections. The problem was there were no political parties left. The CNC was founded with funds from Jacobi to provide the country with a government and to prevent a takeover.

The better question is this: why am I still a member of the CNC? The answer to that question is simple as well. The CNC allowed my political opinions a wide range to flow in. When Rainer N was elected as Party President over some of the country’s most prominent men (notably Goran Thrax... who I supported in the leadership contest) many of the most prominent members of the party bolted. I, who was and am far less prominent, decided to stay with the party to try to work with the new leadership and maybe to make something of what had essentially been nothing. When the CNC was started we didn’t even have a forum page. No one thought we’d need it. Rainer N may have had his faults – for one thing at the time that he became Party President he was young as a player (I still have more XPs and damage than he does) but he brought an energy and a desire to get things done to the party. His successors as Party President, Treian and Greg McNeish share that with him.

I embrace the centrist viewpoint that can range in the political spectrum from left to right depending without being constipated by ideology. We prefer to support the right idea rather than the Right Idea. Or the Left Idea for that matter. This reflects my real life political conundrum. In the real world I am an ardent supporter of the NDP, particularly in Saskatchewan politics, and loathe the current version of the Conservative Party. And yet, I can’t endorse the NDP’s policies completely – I think for example that they are completely wrong on defence policy. In my heart of hearts I am convinced that most people are not wholly in agreement or disagreement with the policies of any single party but that their political opinion spans a range of ideas. In the real Canada there is no party that explores and embraces these contradictions. In our eCanada there is, and it’s name is the Canadian National Coalition.