On elections / Over verkiezingen

Day 2,775, 00:46 • Published in Netherlands Germany • by BaronVanZon

Some citizens, included myself, got confused yesterday. First there was an elections button, then the elections got discontinued. Due to the fact we were holding no regions on the election deadline, we will not have a new Congress this month. A faulty game code however, first said otherwise and showed us the vote now-button.

It did struck me though that hardly (or even none) of the political parties actually campaigned. One could say it was because there was the expectancy of not having an elections this month. Or is it more? Did the Netherlands settle for a political stasis? Do we all just vote for our own party and that's it?

I collected some reactions amongst the party presidents down below, but what do you think? Have we grown complacent?


Sommige burgers, waaronder mezelf, waren wat verward gisteren. Eerst zag je een verkiezingsknop, daarna werden de verkiezingen stopgezet. Omdat we geen regio's hadden op de verkiezingsdeadline, verkiezen we dus geen nieuwe Kamer deze maand. Een foutje in de code van het spel toonde echter wel eerst een stemknop.

Het viel me anders wel op dat er weinig tot geen campagne gevoerd werd deze maand. Was het omdat het te verwachten was dat er geen verkiezingen zouden zijn? Of is het meer? Is het comfortabel geworden om meer van hetzelfde te hebben? Stemmen we gewoon voor de eigen partij en daarmee basta?

Ik verzamelde alvast wat reacties (in het Engels) van de partijvoorzitters, maar wat denk jij? Zijn we gemakszuchtig geworden?

* In the end the expectancy of no congress is the reason that nobody is campaigning at the moment.

* I personally don't think that the eNL have agreed on some status quo with minor changes. If you look at Congress development on the long term, there are not many changes, but they are there. A great thing about our current society is that our differences really aren't that great and our player platform isn't very large, meaning that we don't have much "margin" in who gets to be in Congress and who doesn't.

New players are absolutely not left in a swam of political ignorance. In fact, it is fairly easy for new players to become active in politics. Just register on the forum and use your Dutch citizen's right to comment in the Congress Debate section. You don't have to be a Congress Member to have the right to participate in a debate! (Great rule of our community!)

* I think the uncertainty of there being elections is part of it. most probably didn't think we would actually have them. Also the war might have been distraction for writing articles, plus the fact that most people already are in a party, and the few that are not are either accounts about to die or have been along for some time and know what the parties stand for.

I'm not saying there shouldn't be any articles, but given all of the above it isn't much of a surprise there aren't any.

* Personally I think this is because most of us are busy fighting the Italians. And ofcourse also because finally Summer has struck our country!