[TC4PP] Change or Fade

Day 3,306, 07:34 • Published in USA USA • by Tom Cauchon

Greetings Comrades,

The December/January term is typically the most boring Revolutionary Chairman term of the year. Most of us have family and friends to visit over the holidays, and I’d much rather spend my time enjoying those people in my life than fretting over an online game (no offense!).

However, I know when my party is in trouble. And today, we are in trouble.

We used to be different SFP. I know many of you are young. Hardly any of our remaining members were involved in the long and tedious process that took over a year to break in to the Top 5. I still remember the joy that we, as a party, felt the day we overtook AMP to reach the #5 slot in the eUS. I remember being on that first Congressional SFP ballot, and it was incredible. That was a really awesome time to be in SFP, we had worked so hard, pushed our agenda, made deals, worked with other parties, and gained respect.

We had players join us from across the eUS. We had players like Gnilraps, Aramec, and Naz come and join us, seeking a place to thrive and help develop the SFP from its growing pains. Whether you agree or disagree that these players had a positive impact on our party, you cannot argue that each genuinely meant to bring sound advice and guidance to SFP. They cared enough about our people, and we were good enough players and friends, that they were willing to cast aside their own parties to join us.

What are today?

We are nothing like that party that once stood as a gleaming hope for 2-clickers and players that felt marginalized.

- We have devolved into an “opposition party”, disagreeing with everyone and everything just for the sake of disagreeing.
- We have forsaken the Foreign Affairs of our country (excluding Ilene), yet our Congressional Delegation argues on MPPs and CO fund as if we understand the actual issues.
- We are constantly set back by idiotic comments in Congress, including those that are simply argumentative for the sake of being argumentative.
- Many of our members have zero understanding of game mechanics and meta mechanics. Our own Party President, for some reason, chose to grill POTUS Fingerguns on why Bear Cavalry is blacklisted. Bear Cavalry is not blacklisted by any means. Stack the Wall and other DoCA programs provide funds to Bear Cavalry members.
- Some of our members, for some misguided reason, seem to think that Chickenguys should be taken off the blacklist! This is simply complete ignorance of history.
- Other members have said that Ajay “isn’t that bad”. I’m just going to let that sit.

Well, I’ve laid out my grievances. And I’m done turning a blind eye to the ignorance and ridiculousness of certain members of SFP

So how do we move forward? These are actual plans, not cooked up schemes to incite your enthusiasm and make you want to play for one day. These are plans that use meta and game mechanics to set us up to be a better party and better players for the eUS.

1.Work with the Executive to identify a place for SFP on the next SCI opening. Currently, SFP does not have a member on SCI to my knowledge. This is an important group that SFP would have traditionally had access to as a T5 party. However, because we can’t be trusted by the other parties, we no longer have access to this group.
2.Create an ambassador program, each ambassador being an SFP ambassador to another eUS Political Party. Ambassadors will be sent to the Feds, USWP, WTP, BSP, AMP, and OhFU to speak to their leaderships about finding common grounds and making compromises.
3.Discuss with WTP and BSP to support one of their candidates in the next Congressional SoH election. I recently ran for SoH and I am still in deep appreciation of the support we received from WTP, BSP, and other scattered party members. We only came up 4 votes short of defeating the Fed/USWP coalition last month. I think it is time to return that favor to our friends, should they wish to run.
4.Identify positions within the Executive that can be filled by hard-working and well-informed SFP party members. I will work with Ilene Dover to identify which of our members would be suited to work with the Executive and we will work to get these members in the appropriate departments as deputies during the current term and in the next POTUS term.
5.Recreate SFP Official Media. It is currently lacking and contains little content that is appealing to anyone outside of SFP. This should be one of our biggest recruiting methods. I plan on creating a team, headed by a competent individual that will staff a once-a-week media publication of SFP Official Media.
6.Bring back “SFP Comrade of the Week”. This was a fun contest I had developed in my most previous SFP Chairman term, where I chose which SFP comrade had made the biggest impact on the Party/Nation and rewarded them with gifts!
7.Continue to with our Congressional Delegation to push higher funding for DoCA, and in turn, larger supply programs for younger players. Doubling all program supply drops would be a good goal to start with.

Thank you all for your time spent reading this. I am not one for graphics and silly captions. I am one for hard work, real and implementable ideas, and understanding of game- and meta-mechanics. Please be on the lookout for more articles, and best of luck to all challengers.

Best,
Tom Cauchon