The sorry state of eUSA politics and its sheeple
Artela
Hi there. It’s been a few days since my last article, so how y’all been? Keeping this opening light as we’re going to get into some heavy stuff about what I’ve noticed when comparing before my absence from this place with how things are since I returned, and I’m afraid it isn’t pretty ☹
Firstly, the King Making from secret backrooms and channels has gotten much worse than it used to be. It used to be that although there was an “official unity candidate” decided in the backrooms (from the days where eUSA was fighting very real PTO threats), it was still possible to have someone popular run against that candidate and sometimes even win. I’m not convinced that could happen in the current climate where the CP is now a handpicked dictator in all but name (we’ll come on to the evidence for that in a bit).
Where are the alternate candidates like we used to have? Where are the genuine debates ahead of a CP election where the candidates could air their thoughts, their directions, parade their cabinets, put up an interesting fight for the highest position in our eCountry? Where is the article from the proposed incoming POTUS showing us where he wants to lead us? Hell, even the candidates in eUK put up election articles!! Are we worth so much less to the eAmerican administration?
Where is the CHOICE for the ordinary citizens of this eCountry? It’s almost like the King Makers fear having the pawns actually knowing things and making informed choices… after all, you might vote against them instead of being a willing sheep being led by the nose. You might realize the power of pawns against King Makers lies in sheer numbers.
Secondly, I managed to get elected to Congress for my Party this session. I am appalled by the state of things in the eUSA right now when it comes to transparency, accountability, and democracy. I’m going to lay out here how the relationship between the executive and congress used to work, and how it works now… judge for yourselves.
What used to happen. If the executive (CP/DoD/MoFA/etc) wanted to undertake some new form of military action, to start a new set of wars, to do airstrikes, etc – they had to bring that to private congress for ratification. Ratification included the executive justifying to congress why the action was needed. Congress could veto the action and say no and make sure the in-game vote failed if they thought the action was unneeded or unwarranted. This is accountability. This is democracy. This is by the people, for the people.
What happens now. The CP raises an in-game law request, Congress is TOLD to do nothing and that the CP will decide before the voting session ends whether they want to go forward with the action or not. No discussions. No votes. There is even now an act of law appended to the Constitution and Code called the “Rogue Voting Prevention Act” to censure congresspeople who do not follow this new way of doing things. This is fascism. This is dictatorship. I can see how much easier this makes a CPs eLife… hell when I think back to being CP in the old days and the time spent justifying every little thing to Congress, I can appreciate why the executive likes this way of doing things. It’s so much easier to run things in a dictatorship with no-one allowed to act contrary to your wishes!
The last thing I will pull to people’s attention is this – yet again there was a late WHPR with little to no information on the current war actions. The executive just tell people to work it out for themselves from the half dozen sources of information needed to piece together what is going on – not to mention that some of this information is held in areas that ordinary citizens do not have routine access to (as they are outside of the actual game).
There is no surer way of spotting a fascist dictatorship than their unwillingness to share WHY what is being done is being done. Treating the citizens like mushrooms… kept in the quiet and dark, and fed nothing but s&%*.
I believe we have got here like the frog in the beaker in an experiment. If you throw a frog directly into boiling water, he’s gonna jump out as he recognizes the danger. If you put in a frog into tepid water and gradually heat him up until he boils alive he doesn’t notice until it is too late.
We are all mushrooms and frogs right now!
Artela
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Member of the Revolutionary Committee of the Socialist Freedom Party
Grand Duchess and Former eUSA PotUS
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PERTAMAXXX
I can't believe I am going to say this but...
I miss Pfeifer
He might be closer than you think….
Oh really??
Do tell!
Pfeifer hides behind every corner, in the shadows of every alley, he is in your refrigerator when you close the door.
LOL @ Malpazar
You win the internetz for today!
Certainly one of the more memorable "King-Makers" of eAmerican lore; Hopefully, Karma continues to keep them company.
No one wanted to listen when I was screaming how he was scum.
o7
o7
Third time this evening.
Artela lead us to glory once more, take up King Woldy’s coin and lead us!
Huzzah!
This is not just eUSA story at these times... eWorld story...
Very true.
battlefield activity and strategy are far more fluid and immediate than before.
there are way more wars going on than before.
I don't see how stopping to ask a consensus among Congress to execute on the battlefield could even work now.
otherwise... I am holding my tongue.
for now.
If Congress is just a rubber stamp then why the fuk even bother?
I know how fluid sh*t is because I have been here the whole time watching.
Becoming informed after the fact is just throwing scrapes to people.
Maybe that is why more people are not more involved.
Truth is no one cares and this is a dead game now that's why people aren't involved.
Any congressmen can vote as they wish just won't be able to receive gov funds...
I take nothing from gov, and vote as I would like.
In the old days the exec would approach congress with what was likely to happen in the next few days to get congress backing, sometimes on more than one direction (depending on circumstances). People like HWF/Arrden are killing this game.
We have kept a part of this community alive...
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While you were gone we taught, trained, gave, to many players.
We fought against and worked with many to get the respect you see from others today.
I'm sorry you can't accept this.
the problem is, if you're not in Telegram #battle-orders to know what's happening in real time you don't need to know shit. not before, during or after. be there or be square.
there's diminished returns in putting forth effort and investment in less-than-super fighters, so fuck that.
noobs pretty much don't exist.
it's the streamlined evolution.
Artela, your comment has me intrigued. I'm interested to know why you think HWF/Arrden and others like them are killing the game, will you elaborate?
There is even now an act of law appended to the Constitution and Code called the “Rogue Voting Prevention Act” to censure congresspeople who do not follow this new way of doing things.
no one cares about this law, the only reason we even brought it was to stop WTP from fucking up laws that need to stay neutral (0-0) until the final minutes. no one was actually even censored from this, as the Executives can always call congressmen when needed to overturn a potential singular vote or even more. there is always some congressman online to help since we all live in different time zones.
You have lost if you even argue this sh!t, made up rules ( laws) outside of game parameters are not enforceable without breaking the spirit of the game …
And I’d you think it is a dead game, and say it while running for cp ( but not really) what does that say about how you choose to play. Duck the cheaters full steam ahead. Open game on cp and cabinet plus silly freedom problem
WTF are you taking…. I haven’t run for CP since my return, and don’t intend to
WTF really …. When did I mention YOU?
four candidates this month and one recently called it a dead game, and yet continues to play … isn’t that maybe kinda related to having sex with corpses …. ?
Oh, that's funny, I can't quite remember who gave you CZ, put you in Congress, ran you for President... oh that's right...
Judas.
yea definitely because your no lifer party gave me Acs, put me in congress and ran me for CP 12 years ago i never need to look outside of your bulls*it and always blindly follow what you and your multies in WTP do.
Nope. It was Pfeiffer. Good try though.
Thus showing you know nothing of eUSA history. I came here because of the Terra Alliance and was welcomed with open arms.
Alternate candidates, like the unity elections? Things are so different now….
Ohhh, very real PTO threats! Irony being that ya'll were the actual sheeple
Whatever happened to the love triangle with Fluffy?
Ajay showing how lame Ajay is and trying to be relevant on 12 year old history… Nothing to see here, as always with Ajay, the King of Irrelevance!
As Mr. Atkinson rightly stated; the best choice is to have *more* speech on *all* topics. ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiqDZlAZygU )
That said; truth remains within the following quote from 40 years ago...
" The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge." --Isaac Asimov
o7
Okay okay the people have spoken.
I will be your new King (dictator)
Rebellious, demanding like the goddesses in myths 😮 In paganism, such striking words were worshiped 2500 years ago, gifts were presented in the forest. 😮
Since you are not getting what you consider a satisfactory answer to your question of Why, I would suggest asking your question differently so it is clear what you want to know.
The main why is we (Asteria) are at war with Code and have been for a long time. Anytime we get a border with a Code country we will usually initiate a war proposal so that we might have the initiative and if we do get the iniative more often and not the Code country will sever the border before the war can start.
Voots has now published an excellent article that fills all the gaps.
erepublik is not huge as before where you must compete in politics.
now we can't even find people for a simple role.
Pretty sure its a lie no one tells you what we do. I am guessing you were lazy and didnt try contact people. Should do that first.
Most people in the exec say "go find out for yourself, the information is there" - yes, spread across several different places with no-one explaining why things are happening. I'm glad to see that Voots has now taken this on board (as at least one noob was also stating this was bad) and has published a comprehensive article that fills the gap that was there, for which thanks go to Voots.
Okay Im sorry you didnt get the informations before. I didnt know. Hopefully this gonna change now!
>this is fascism
lol. lmao. kek.