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I've been working hard on assembling a cabinet. No official list yet, I still have a couple final positions to fill, but I will have a list up soon (hopefully in my next article). If you'd like to be in my cabinet, it's not too late to fill out this form!

So first up, I'd like to talk about political parties here, but to show my exact feelings about parties here, I'd like to tell you a little bit about the kind of political party that I'm used to.

I have it listed on the "about me" page that I was PP on the UIP (an American party that sadly isn't around anymore) twice. That's an achievement for me because the UIP was the first thing that brought me out of my noobdom in this game. When I read an article from the PP, I joined, I was invited onto the forum and there was TONS of stuff to do. There was recruiting, there was managing congress, there was an investigation team (back when that was a thing), there was an entire "Department of Fun" that put together fun stuff and made people want to stick with the party. The UIP was the first thing in eRep where I climbed to the top of a ladder and got to lead it, and that's why I still have that on my erep resume a year (probably more like two) after it disbanded.

That is what parties are like in the eUS, they compete for members and they compete for congress seats, and as a result, they make a special effort to be the most fun part of the game. Here though, it's much to the contrary. PP isn't something that you need to really do anything for, they have essentially no responsibilities here. They just block against PTO, they's it. Basically...



If I am elected CP, I plan to reform this and make permanent changes to the way that our parties work. PP will not be an empty position, PPs will work together to ease some of the stress of the MoHS job. The PPs should be communicating with each other to find congress candidates and to move people around in order to keep PTOers out of the top 5. The PPs should also be working to take some of the boredom out of the game.

I acknowledge that this will be a long process and it will not happen in just 1 term, but I do want to start it off. This month, my Homeland Security team will be working with the PPs to reform what a party is in this nation. Even though there aren't a lot of members to compete for, I would like to see them try to out-fun each other and I'd like to see them step up when congress elections come around. I'd like to try and make this a tradition for every PP term, and I'm hoping that the MoHS who comes after I'm done with my term will agree with me and keep doing it, so eventually, the PP position will look something like this:



Now for communication. In the last article, I went into how communications should be better here, and I'd like to illustrate it a little more. We have a problem, and the problem is essentially this:



So things are being communicated, but a lot of times, only small details are able to get between MUs and Cabinet, and that's usually only because of Cabinet members who are actually IN the MUs. Other than that, there's very little communication based on parties, and stuff takes too long to get from place to place. It's inefficient, and I've seen more than once MU commanders not being able to tell which battles are serious and which are distractions. This is a problem that is affecting how we fight and how we operate.

If I am elected, I will work to make communication better by personally keeping the PPs and MU commanders just as informed as my cabinet is. In addition to the usual cabinet IGM thread, I will be opening up one between me, my MoD team, and all of the MU commanders to keep them informed. I will also be opening up one between myself, my MoHS team, and all of the PPs as well as asking the PPs to start party-wide IGM threads in order to form more permanent lines of communication between party members. My goal is to turn the jumbled mess you see above into something like this.



As a final note, the winner of last article's comment challenge was Benjamin Doverton!

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That's all for now, Stay paralyzing guys 😉

-Welsh

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