Why the eUS Will Always Fail
Day 889, 19:28
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Yes, a bit confrontational, but it has to be said. No matter what we do, we will fail.
We are a huge nation, with many competing interests. The closest I've seen personally of a majority of Americans working together was during the darkest hours of the North American invasion. And it figured, just as soon as we vanquished those fgts, we turned on our true enemy.
Ourselves.
We are a nation divided. And not by any measurable metric. But it's there. For my European friends, imagine the United States as a group of nations clustered together. We're less crazy than the Balkans, but we have our moments. So instead of a rivalry between clustered nations we get regional and sociopolitical factions slugging it out.
Some stay above the fray, some fall prey to snark and snide remarks. Even I, who for so long tried to remain balanced and fair to all, have recently considered paying Spain to take eVirginia just to spite a handful of regionalists. Petty? Yes. I decided to donate most of that to (lesser) good causes instead. You have your reprieve for now, Richmond :3
I don't really know how else to describe this trait of our nation. We're too big for our own good, in-game and in real life. This may be why people in other countries think eAmerica is self-centered. Why fight with someone an ocean away when we have people RIGHT HERE who need to get punched in the nose?
In summation, we spend too much time fighting ourselves, and not enough time building structure to fight our external enemies. I don't know if that can be fixed without something drastic happening to unite us under one flag AND one cause.
As an aside, HR into POTUS \o/
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What a great article concept 😃
Cool, I guess.
This article is un-American 😃
And didnt you quit?
I did nearly quit, I just started training again yesterday. Though I stayed pretty active on the forums the whole time, the game itself is less appealing to me now. Dunno if that will change.
/me checks system's wellness and the fact that he just put out a new article
Why no, it appears that he has not quit 😛
Let's unite sometime.
agreed and voted
If there was one word to describe why the eUS has not reached its full potential as a nation it would be: Congress. Great article as always. You will get that MM medal one day.
i would have voted, but this article lacks pics of hot chicks
All big groups are like that, and yet the most powerful groups are the bigger ones.
That, and our enemies are just as effed up as we are.
Gulden Draak: OH GOD YES
systems0101, you are wrong. such fractionalism exists in all countries..in RL and in eWorld. If you have observed and studied other nations, even a tiny nation like eMalaysia, or larger nations like eIndonesia, eHungary, ePoland - fractionalism exists. It's the matter of who can convince the majority (before the nation self-destruct).
Now that I've thought about it, I do not agree. I do agree that we are too divided in real life, but not in eRepublik. In eRepublik we're constantly threatened, whether it's from PTO or an invading country. That keeps the eUSA and it's citizens focused.
Vote Sisqo as Governor of Texas 😛
>Even I, who for so long tried to remain balanced and fair to all, have recently considered paying Spain to take eVirginia just to spite a handful of regionalists.
I support this idea.
America will succeed.
Good article S5. It sums up why I left.
Jude - http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/-uk-an-american-werewolf-in-london-1326126/1/20" target="_blank">http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/-uk-[..]/1/20
Dude, you of all people should know we bust our ass to go fight for friends overseas. In fact, you and I led troops together doing just that more than once. Six of my seven campaign ribbons are for campaigns helping allied nations, five of those were overseas.
"We are a nation divided"lol of corse we are eamericans.
just like RL us americans don't always get along but when the time is needed we steep up and do work as americans.
that is way we are strong we have are own ideas and goals so we fight to see those ideas and goals come true but at the end of the day everyone well fight to defened eUSA and even if there is a great war on our shores after we kick them out we go back to fight for our goals and ideas.
Hey,it's always the other guys fault 😛
But you get a vote because you are self-centered.
IMO Every nation has the same identical problem....
FFFFFUUUUUUUU, this is the article I was planning to write today. 😡
Nicely done anyway.
Don't hurt my beloved Virg...oh wait. xD
Good article System, good to see you haven't died completely. When are you gonna come work for me again? I came up with a new idea for the DoS. 😃
One word. Militarism.
HUBRIS
yesterday systems0101, you are wrong. such fractionalism exists in all countries..in RL and in eWorld. If you have observed and studied other nations, even a tiny nation like eMalaysia, or larger nations like eIndonesia, eHungary, ePoland - fractionalism exists. It's the matter of who can convince the majority (before the nation self-destruct).
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I missed this article two weeks ago, but I find it mildly humorous that someone would get so wound up over the results of merely exercising free speech. There is sort of this straining at a gnat and swallowing a camel aspect to the thing, as todays PP election antics go to show.