Let's Light Up a Fire

Day 2,933, 01:36 • Published in USA USA • by Azazel Romanov


Well so much has been going on recently that I felt I had to write something to calm my nerves. I'm glad to feel back in the swing of things again, and I'm enjoying myself a bit. I recently arrived back in congress and I'm sort of working again, we'll see what else the near future may hold in store. It looks like international events are spiking and we have a contested presidential race once more.

I had recently written about SFP's potential future, and it seems that Aramec has decided to jump into the debate as well, with a little bit more in-depth analysis. The short of it: SFP needs to adapt to survive, or at least to gain more appeal within the community of the Top 5 parties. J.A. Lake's response to this essentially argues that rejecting the norm could yield new fruits for SFP. However, I'm not entirely sure of this point, and new congressional debate doesn't seem to be cultivating new trees.

Wild Owl announced that he would run again and then essentially laid out the current state of foreign affairs. Following this, Gnilraps kind of surprised everyone by jumping into the presidential race. What seemed most odd about this was despite the current attention that should be on foreign affairs, Gnilraps put most of his focus into an experiment to end the Defensive Dictatorship. I will have to see what develops from his "International Awareness" plank before making more comments on that portion.



However his presidential campaign seems to have hit a legislative wall, as you may be able to see from the public congressional debate on the dictatorship. His main option is now whether to press on the debate and shift the tide, drop the plank, or go against legislation he himself had a key factor in authoring and break the dictatorship law should he win. This also seems like a doubling-down from Jude's presidential run, rather than an attempt from SFP to find some issue to integrate on. I know, SFP has no endorsed policies, but from the comments section it doesn't seem too terribly divided.

I also don't think that the Defensive Dictatorship should really be the focus this month, especially given the changing world events around us. With the Greco-Hungarian War, we could be seeing a new alliance shift, and a new role for Pacifica. A new alliance formed, but I have to doubt its viability as a major game changer (only includes Spain, UK, and Belgium). And I don't usually cite Auctoritas, but his last article seems to hit on the head what I think this election should really be about. Pacifica could be better, and we could add more countries that stay on the periphery of the Balkans instead of pulling us in further. There is also the argument that Asteria falls apart and we are pulled to one side of the split. I'm not actually sure which course is right myself, as both have their pros and cons.


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So there's my piece, I simply think this election shouldn't be about the Defensive Dictatorship, especially when another issue is more likely to gain importance. I'm usually content to sit on the sidelines and wait, so perhaps I'm not the best judge of this. So consider this a challenge to the candidates and other writers: where should we go?