The Pitfalls of the far left and the need for balance.
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by GLaDOS
Hello People of Thailand.
I would like to talk today about our politics, and the need for balance in Thailand. Thailand currently has three center of far left parties at the moment. One of these is the newly changed Thai Social Democrats party, once the TNT. As far as i know, these changes were made by the leader of the party without any prior vote. I personally am a centrist, and believe that a smart mix of social programs and economics is the key to a nations success. I not a far right maniac as most of the communists assume. I joined the Thai Nation Together Party because i assumed it had centrist politics reflected my own, as well as most people in the party's viewpoints.
For this Reason, today I Announce my Candidacy for president of the Thai Social democrats party, once known as the TNT. I run on a campaign of changing it back to a centrist party, possibly under a new name, but maybe going back to the TNT. My main goal is to bring back the political stance of the TNT, a center party, with libertarian leanings.
Thank you for taking the time to read this article, a more detailed campaign manifesto will be released by myself in the coming days.
VOTE GLaDOS FOR TNT PRESIDENT!
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you have my support!
I think it is good that you are running - for the sake of democracy I’m glad to see this.
However it is of course my stand that the original TNT wasn’t good for much - indeed it didn’t have a clear purpose at all. The think about the right-left scale in Thailand is that the PUP isn’t really a left party at all in my opinion. The PUP IS for all intents and purpouses a centre party, sometimes even leaning right I think. Indeed our current president, whom the PUP supports wholeheartedly is more right-wing than anything else.
The Wellness program can of course be seen as leftish, but that is too shallow of an analysis IMO.
Also; The Social Democratic Party, as I have outlined it, is a party that has a clear vision of how we can expand beyond the limits of the game. The Party I whish to run - the social democratic one - is a party with a purpouse, one that will be able to engage a lot of people in an internal democratic structure and one that aims towards a more dynamic society.
I have a hard time seeing how the original TNT could provide that. The original TNT was a pretty lame party; one with little purpose (except that of the interests of a certain group of players who started it) .
No, as I said, this is good for democracy, but it is not good for democracy if you do win.
Respectfully
Defenestration
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i will be coming out with a complete manifesto of what the TNT is to represent. I believe in a well, THAI NATION TOGETHER!
and considering you made changes to the party without even asking the members of the party, how democratic is that?
I always thought of myself as more of a "centrist"...
Some times I lean to the left, sometimes I lean to the right..
But in eRepublik, Left - Right is more like an illusion than anything else..
@ GLaDOS. Good that you do that. And actually I have not made changes without asking the members at all - before i wanted to change anything I presented the changes, and then went to the party-president elections saying "this is what I'm going to do if I get elected" this time is the same thing, except I show them full out forst. If they choose your position then that's fine.
Democracy 🙂
@ Bl1ndn3ss: Of course you have agood point - eRepublic politics isn't the same as IRL politics. But what I find consistently in this game is that the visions come from the left. The expanding of the game comes from the left. I have still to see anyring comming from the eRepublic right that isn't "make a lot of Gold"....
Good luck GlaDos!
in game Libertarianism just seems like collect gold for winning elections and then wait until the next election cycle. Maybe lower taxes.
I dont see how this party is Far Left GLaDOS, I am myself very moderate, and centrist. I believe in the far left, and I want it to work, but im a realist in that far leftism doesn't work, nor does far rightism. This party as I have seen and read from, will be center left... is it just the name Social that scares you?, if you want a right wing party why dont you make it or take over an inactive party, but seeing how Defen was elected Party Pres once and he campaigned on leftism then it seems the party wants to be left wing... that would be my reasoning. And I would like to ask of Defen and of GLaDOS to have this election clean, we dont want to split eThailand into factions
lol. did you even read it?
i believe social programs are ok, and government should regulate the market a little
my main point is that defenestration is changing the heart of the TNT, and i liked it the way it was, hence why i am running 🙂
yes I did read it, it is not far left
Ziggard is making a valid point, they are not far left... all they have is probably represent themselves with how Thailand was acting a few weeks ago... free market with some strong social programs.
The world must be ended when a party sways a little left...
You asked for more right winged though, yet you only will represent a center point-blank party.
Really, I think this whole "left v. right v. center" is getting a bit redundant.
"He went from center to center left, my god, we must stop this."
What are the major changes that will be made being of now and how you will change?
I think the only major difference would be you cutting off direct communications with our parties, because that's about all he's done in the "left" views, some would say.
It's not like he's trying to be far left.
Really, I read the article and comments, and I really don't see your fuss except that it says "left" instead of just center or center right.
That's like saying IRL Russia's communism was actually communist and not totalitarian... (Which, may I add, there's a huge difference between Communism and Totalitarianism.)
If you must PM me your views, go ahead, I am at a loss.
but nonetheless, if you want to run, then go go go go go!
In the name of true Democratic being!