Nyman creates the problem and then prescribes itself as the solution.
As I recall, we was kinda kicking ass and tacking names there for awhile, by your own admission.
Excellent job. Congratulations.
Of course we both know what happened later that year.
Your party members should consider themselves lucky you are Prime Minister. Works as a nice insurance policy.
Civic institutions have been destroyed by the divisive politics wrought on our people by the powers in Nyman. Political dialogue has literally turned neighbor on neighbor, making effective community groups essentially impossible. This has been coupled with a lack of commitment to civic vibrancy from the federal government.
The powers in Nyman? Oh get of your faux white horse Riley, no one takes it seriously at this point. We all know who elected to make Atlasia this way.
There is no free lunch and your IRClique willingly elected to trade away the good natured discourse in favor of the plots, schemes and treating those not in the clique like dirt for over two years. When you do this kind of thing to people, they tend to stop liking you pretty quickly and Karma is a bitch.
Yank, I don't dislike you and I don't think I've done anything to personally mistreat you, whatever you assume of me spending time in the IRC.
If you count voting for BK over Cris as some sort of personal affront, then I suppose you have reason to be so venomous. I voted for BK because why not? We elected conservatives and libertarians only to see the tax rates go up, the government grow, the communists win, and the military shrink. There has been basically no point to play ideology in this game because our leaders get us
nothing.
You were in the senate
forever and you never really contributed to moving the country to the right. While you were 'leading' the right, a
literal communist wrote every bill that passed. The only things Federalists ever got were big spending education, transportation, and energy programs under Duke. I voted for him and I'd do it again because he's a good leader, but he had no backup. All we ever did was capitulate. The Federalist Party's only ideology was quiet, conciliatory conservatism.
For one, brief moment we had a real policy issue to deal with and maybe win on. There was a presidential election in the middle of the healthcare debate. Was there a conservative candidate? No. We split down the middle between the slightly more socially conservative labor ticket and the very slightly more fiscally conservative Sirnick ticket. I was complicit in this only because I would have been alone in changing.
The only meaningful victories over leftism have been delivered by TPP and its allies. Oakvale lead the charge against the nationalization of energy and was joined by the rest of the reasonable people. Somehow, Yankee, you, as the de facto political leader on the right, only managed to cast a "Reluctant Nay." What is a conservative supposed to do?
The political right is a terrible joke in Atlasia which left me politically homeless. What was I supposed to do? Vote for the pro-choice, fiscally moderate, peacenik Cris because of his Innovative Conservative Game Reform Policy (TM) of having an official portraits thread so we can imitate elected politicians?
We finally got ourselves a President who would hold the line on at least one conservative issue, foreign affairs. Lumine put some work in to reverse the status quo of foreign policy and that was an exciting time to be a conservative. That lasted three weeks. Then the bills failed or were amended into oblivion while the 'conservatives' didn't lift a finger to defend their President.
When Federalist ideology is so impotent that it is somehow more impotent than Federalist political affairs, I have no reason to keep holding on for the conservatives to maybe someday get their act together and tell the senile has-been to put up or shut up in Nyman.
Who the hell has ever represented actual conservatives? Who has ever said, "I stand with JCL on Israel, maybe not on every point but bless him for fighting in the face of every leftist hurling words like apartheid in our direction? No one. Who ever said, "You know what, we just spend too much money. Cut it now." No one. Who ever honestly tried to stand up for people DC al Fine, TJ, ZuWo, or myself since I've been here? Maybe in the Mideast forever ago, but no Federalist ever rose up to defend the right to life. What political interest ever actually fought for Lumine's foreign policy? There wasn't one.
For as long as I've been around, there has been a chronic fear of going 'too far.' Every 'right-of-center' politician spends their time turning our voters and beliefs into Sister Souljah so they can win a legislative seat by the skin of their teeth every other cycle. Look at the budget being debated. Look at voter turnout. We, as conservatives,
need to go far to prevent from being too far gone.
You are reaping what you have sown, Yankee. Years of conciliatory conservatism and pitiful capitulation have led you and your party to this point.
Adam Griffin is President. Communist legislation can't be repealed. Conservatism has a snowball's chance of impacting laws. A Constitutional Convention is set to consolidate regions with the consent of the Federalist Party. You and your old RPP buddies are either remarkably silent or venomously dismissive when the regions stop laying down and taking it.
When I joined the game, the one thing that held a sometimes-libertarian, sometimes-moderate, sometimes-conservative Federalist Party together was regionalism. When Reaganfan tried to primary Duke, his voters didn't come because of abortion, taxes, and troops. They came because of Duke's pro-consolidation stance. It was a regionalist rebellion that only failed when Duke swore off consolidation in his second term. Where is that fire now? Where is that unity? Gone.
While you may sit here and hurl insults about the amount of time I spend away from the game, you should ask yourself whose time was better spent. My time volunteering in my community and pursuing real world ambitions or your time clinging to a dusty Senate seat in a dying game while the red tide laps at your feet?
So, what am I to do? Throw my time and vote into a movement killed by its politicians or make friends with the folks that are fun to talk to in the evenings? I'll take the latter, ideology aside.