The Constitution Party President Interview

Day 4,438, 05:32 • Published in USA USA • by Malpazar

For those who do not know me, my name is Malpazar. I have been playing eRepublik on and off for several years across two accounts (the one prior to this is lost in the ether). Thank you for taking a read of my quick interview of the TCP candidates. eRepublik used to be ripe with articles on a near daily basis, and I would personally love to see that trend return. so here is my contribution.

Political Parties are the backbone of the entire political process here in eRepublik. They are the beginning for many who seek advancement to higher office. They are the central holders of power, determining what order those appear on the congressional docket, a political primary if you will. I had a bit of time to send some interview questions over to the three candidates running for the top party spot.
Animis




Question: What would you do to increase our parties participation in electoral events and in the community?

Answer: I am not sure what you mean by ‘electoral events’ or participation in the community – please be more specific.

(Editors note: I may not have made this question clear, nor did I offer an opportunity for the individual to say they had no plans for this, it was related to potential events, writing campaigns, potential monetary or food benefits to activity, etc. I apologize to Animis)

Question: Currently our party is tied with SFP for 3rd place, getting folks involved is big, but recruiting is bigger. What are your plans for recruitment?”

Answer: There is an assumption in this question that there are players who are recruitable. I’m not sure that they exist in significant numbers. While there are always players that are unhappy with their party or MU or so other group at any given time, most are settled into their group. Unless the game grows, there is not a pool of recruitable future members of tCP. We are, as we have be accused of, from time to time, largely a party of oldfags. The average tCP member has been playing nearly a decade and is very stable and to an extent, set in their game play. We did have a big loss of long established, distinguished players leave the game in the last year or so. Several were well known and popular CP’s & MU leaders, some were deeply involved in USWP from its birth. Our party did suffer from these losses in terms of membership.

What I would like to see is an ambitious player such as yourself put your energy into writing about how being involved in tCP can give a less experienced player access to talk to some of the countries highest rated players, players with very high numbers and to be able to benefit from their experience. Perhaps this may help with attrition. Who knows! A recruit or two every month or so could happen.

I am however not convinced that despite anything we may do besides bribe people with guns and gold can we get a FED, or a SFP, or WTP or BSP member to leave their club house, their game identity to join any other party. That’s just not the way it works nowadays.

Question: The opposite of intake is output. In this case our intake is recruitment and our output is attrition. What plans do you have to increase our parties retention?

Answer: See above

The final question: TCP believes in 1. Access to legislative power, 2. Stewardship of tax revenue, 3. Sovereignty of eUSA. How do you, as Party President plan to promote those values?

I am very proud of the work our Congressional group does in Congress. We have a tCP caucus group that includes former CPs, MU leaders, party leaders past & present and current congress critters. We communicate regularly on current topics, including all aspects of our military. We also alert each other when there are votes and discuss these matters if there is any controversy. Our Stewardship of Tax Revenue has been a signature feature of tCP as it was back in the heyday of USWP. We use every possible opportunity to post the daily deposit to our Congressional Budget Office. I am not sure what you mean by promoting these values. This eNation, Congress or the bigger game is very small; values are values. What we do promote by how we interact is a drama free game environment. We, members of tCP, generally do not engage in drama, we like to play the game, most of us want to have fun, not arguments. We have long term loyalty to the eUSA and play for our nation. We try our best to lead by example. We do not need to be the most popular party to be a great party and I think I speak for most tCP members in saying that we are proud to be a great party. Thank you.
Gessho



Question: What would you do to increase our parties participation in electoral events and in the community?

Answer: Nothing at all. I pushed the button almost entirely for the lulz, little bit out of habit. Actually, I forgot that I had done it until you contacted me for this interview.

Question: Currently our party is tied with SFP for 3rd place, getting folks involved is big, but recruiting is bigger. What are your plans for recruitment?

Answer: I hadn't thought about it. I mostly play eRep while watching Star Trek and playing Minecraft. Occasionally I also watch YouTube, but mostly Star Trek. I suppose I could recruit by saying some wild shit on Discord?

Question: The opposite of intake is output. In this case our intake is recruitment and our output is attrition. What plans do you have to increase our parties retention?

Answer: Free bread and circuses, obviously. I will also personally send Korean softcore animu porn mags to all those that send me their IRL addresses. That should really keep the kind of top-notch players we like within the fold.

The final question: TCP believes in 1. Access to legislative power, 2. Stewardship of tax revenue, 3. Sovereignty of eUSA. How do you, as Party President plan to promote those values?

I'm a pretty chill dude, just come talk to me with your questions. Stewardship of tax revenue... shit man, I don't know. We won't spend it on frivolous stuff like new furniture. And Sovereignty? We need to work toward getting nukes, I guess. Listen, don't vote for me, I won't do any of the responsible stuff you guys want me to.
Count Del L Snowflake




The Count did not answer over the course of several days.

Thank you everyone, and good luck to all the candidates.