[TRG] The Path Forward

Day 3,061, 12:19 • Published in USA USA • by J.A. Lake

The SFP has been positively abuzz with activity over the past week. Indeed, spring did thaw us out. Our Writers' Guild has compiled ten articles in private media published by SFPers in that frame of time, with this being an eleventh.

Conversation focuses on our direction forward, and although I am not running for Party President this month I will float my conception of a forward path in a convenient list format.

Amnesty

This is getting a little absurd, don't you think? We have passed four months since the December Revolution yesterday, four months of exclusion and puerile demands for a "sincere apology."

I would recommend that the SFP delegation and interested parties within SFP draw up an Amnesty Bill and submit it to the Meta-Congress. If it fails, we introduce it in May. In June. In July. In August. In September. In October. In November. In December. In 2017. In 2018.

Much like Andy Dufresne in The Shawshank Redemption, we must become insistent. The Amnesty Bill will one day pass if only we keep the heat on the Top 4.


Outreach

An idea that's been toyed with for months is of Party Embassies, ordinarily in friendly leftist parties overseas. Perhaps we should investigate establishing the same thing in the forums of our competitors and friends here in the eUSA, to provide clean and open lines of communication and to keep the Top 4 appraised of our current goals, actions, and platform.

This would help us to rebuild some of that external legitimacy.

Line Up!

Another idea that has been thrown around and oftentimes struck down as fast is the idea of a Party Line. I don't believe in determining votes beforehand but I do believe we need to establish official Party positions on issues of the day and explain those positions clearly to our delegation.

This can be accomplished by completion of the long-overdue Program, but it has to go a little further. SFP Congress members should be aware of those positions and vote accordingly because the Program will be approved by a general vote, and thus the positions outlined within should be considered binding, to an extent.

In an effort at enforcement, perhaps a system of demerits could be established. Congress members that consistently vote against the Party Program could lose points in our primary off the top based on the consistency and severity of those breaks with the Program if they cannot justify them. Severity of those demerits should be determined proportionally by the percentage of the vote in favor/against the Platform.

Exemplars

We must become more well-read, more grammar-spotless, more above-the-fray, and more politically ruthless.

As it is, we are not particularly cohesive in our politics. This is necessarily a side-effect of the anarcho-syndicalism we abide by, I admit. There are some issues we are linked on, such as dictatorship, but we hold disparate views on issues like taxes and policy regarding the metagame. We have to lock this down and build up consensus. Disparity and anarchy are good tools for us, but they are equally as useful to our opponents.

Through unity, we will find strength. Through solidarity, we will find success.

Research

We must delve into the wealth of garbage pseudo-law on the eUS Forums and learn its ins and outs, its lefts and rights, and its ups and downs. Loopholes must be found and exploited, old laws that can be turned to our benefit must be wielded as potent weapons.

Our mission must become to make it a nightmare to try and utilize precedent or "law" against us. The eUS Code is laughable, and we must learn how to use that to our advantage.

Push for Radical Change

The most radical change we can push for is to wipe clean the legal slate and rebuild the country and government in a fair, equal manner. This can best be accomplished through a scrapping of the current pseudo-legal code and Constitution and creation of a smaller, more efficient, more structured government with safeguards built in against multiple-month appointees to the Government that could otherwise be boxing out newer members.

It begins with an eUS Constitutional re-write. I believe this should be a priority of the SFP's.


SFP has many paths forward, and we must take one. Agitation will only get us so far, as has been previously pointed out. We need to get rolling in the new year, expand, and thrive.

If people want to get political, half-measures cannot be allowed to suffice. If we want to play at politics, we have to define the rules and play it better. Playing the game with the rules they lay out in this disorganized fashion is to be as chickens marching to the slaughter.