Politics

Day 2,326, 15:04 • Published in Sweden Bolivia • by atrawall
I've always played this game for the politics.

I'm outspoken, brash and hot-tempered. But I'm also always calculating and figuring out what needs done.

I love politics and was the foundation of 2 completely different parties in eSouth Africa. I didn't create the parties, but my activity and support definitely created the structure on which each party stood on.

The Union of Patriots
The first party I helped found was The Union of Patriots. (New eSwede Rusty Kuntz http://www.erepublik.com/en/citizen/profile/1331067 was also a founding member) "Patriot" can be an isolating term, but I didn't think twice about it. We were under the beliefs that new citizens made the game and by encouraging them to stay and join our party, they would advance quickly through the ranks and never be thrown into a situation they couldn't handle.

Over time, this party went from the bottom (constantly-PTOed) party, to building a foundation of new members who stayed and eventually was in a hard-fought battle with the established number 1 party. The old top party was a bunch of older players who took the game for granted and never did anything but get into congress and vote to keep status quoue. Eventually, due to a party merger Union of Patriots became the Top party in eSA, however I didn't like the way the party had grown and felt like the core wasn't what I originally helped create. I was happy that UP had created and found its own way without myself and Rusty Kuntz telling them, but it was time to move on and oppose this monster which I had created.


The Dignity Brigade - Political Faction
In eSouth Africa, the Dignity Brigade has been around longer than I've been playing erepublik (I have been through a couple accounts, remember) so I had joined them as status quo had become too overwhelming. We were constantly having our regions rented by Brazil as they were "Protecting" us. Everyone was afraid of Indonesia or other countries moving in on us. The Dignity Brigade wanted our regions to be returned to us for US to decide what to do with. Brazil was "renting" our regions by force and it was too much.

Many of the other citizens who merged with me are long-time Dignity Brigade, Locutus, S.N.A.F.U and Jizzie McGuire. They were hard-lined against Brazil.

When I joined their party, I was the compromising element. One of the few moderates of the party, to become a voice that would "Challenge" Brazil as to outright oppose them. With my active, aggressive approach to everything and their belief system, we established another party that would crack the Top 2. We probably would have been Number 1, had it not been for 1.5 years of PTO's and Unity Voting. It got to a point where we couldn't beat the PTO because we still had Party lines and they didn't.

TODAY
Apart from helping in Cabinets, I haven't been in politics for a long time as they have been useless for the past year in eSA.

As I reside in eSweden, I'll be looking for a party to join. I'll be abstaining from congressionals or anything of the sort for a couple months, but I will be joining a party and diving headfirst into the politics of things.


tl;dr - What Party should I join and "Why?"