[PotUS] Challenges

Day 3,536, 18:59 • Published in USA USA • by Derphoof




One-Hundred Eighty Days ago, I asked you a question.

Do we have the will?

The will to wage war?
The will to take leadership?
The will to expand our horizons?

In the past six months, this country has been more proactive than reactive. We’ve taken the fight to others, instead of sitting back on our heels, hoarding gold like dragons. For this, we have taken up our fair share of praise and condemnation. Such is what happens when people take actions. Such actions could affect many friendships, old and new.

We knew, but were not afraid. We pressed on.

In the past six months, we’ve taken more leadership in Pacifica, supporting our allies and suggesting plans of action for our alliance. As such, we were active in planning the strikes by our alliance, against nations like Ukraine and Turkey. We decided to help deliver the killing blow to Syndicate. Then, we gave Yui the chance to lead.

By doing so, we knew that we’d have to take ownership of alliance actions. We could not shy away. We had to press on.

In the past six months, we attempted to open up lines of communication with new countries. We sought new relationships. We mended our border relationship with Canada. We looked across the pond to France, where we brought our relationship to MPP level. We gained an MPP with Lithuania and Estonia. We reestablished alliances with Slovenia and China. We reached out to other nations as well, improving relations sometimes, but not enough to get any big results.

Each time, we knew that some old relationships may be affected by pursuing new ones. We would have to confront our past, in forging our future.

We pressed on.





So yes, America did have the will.

We had the will to change, but some recent change has been much different.

We’ve seen internal discord grow in the eUS. Some has been stoked by genuine concern. Some has been stoked by others and their rhetoric, for potential political gain. However, most everyone has had some part in this conflict.

People treat others with distrust. Players look at each other with inherent disdain for one another. People have no sense of basic decency towards one another.





When I emigrated to this country from Canada, in January of 2013, I did so as a small fish in a big pond.

I looked to Congress and saw many people that I respected, and still do. These people seemed like giants of American politics. People came from all different backgrounds, with all kinds of ambitions and ambitious ideas and agendas to push. Their ideas, ambitions, and party affiliations often conflicted, and sometimes in nasty ways.

Yet, in the end, people came together to solve the problems of the day.

Today, we can’t claim to do the same.

People are more concerned with personal victories, than with the good of the country. People are more concerned with rhetoric, than with results.

So, once again, I ask this nation:

Do you have the will?

Do you have the will to trust one another?
Do you have the will to respect one another?
Do you have the will to work with one another?

Dividing our community only weakens our nation. We must come together to forge our future, and solve the problems that future will present to us.

We must have the will, and we must always press on.





I will not be running for the Presidency on the 5th of August.

Six months is more than anyone has ever served consecutively in the past. It’s required a lot of hard work, a lot of constant attention, and a lot of long nights. I can say that I’ve had my fill of this office (for now, muahahaha).

Instead, I plan on working for the next executive, advising and working as best I can to advance the interests of the next administration and our great country. Just as well, I hope to return to Congress, where I will continue to work on the behalf of all Americans, just as I have done for 32 terms in the past.

As such, I’m issuing a challenge to all congressmen who are being elected this month.

Take a pledge.

Pledge to hold yourself to a higher standard. Hold yourself to proper decorum. Hold yourself accountable when you don’t meet that standard.

Do you have the will?