Maxwell for Midwest Althing

[Maxwell]

Yes, I'm back folks

Pictured: Former Governor Maxwell, throwing a reporter off of a balcony

After returning to this game, I noticed something... eerie. We've missed the May election for Althing and Archduke, we haven't had any updates in the legislature since April, and frankly, turnout in our region was pisspoor. After years of a strong turnaround, we are right back where we started in this beautiful region - in bad shape.

Thus, I feel it's time to step in the game once again. We have to do a couple of things - get this new constitution passed, get more people involved, and boot out inactive officers. I have no secrets about my leadership style, I rub some people to wrong way, but it's no longer the type to play patty cakes and let things fall apart again.

If you have any questions on my ideas, my past, my platform, or if you just want to stop by and say hi, it's all here. I'm an Independent now because I've been through all of the parties in this game, and frankly, all they are there for is to keep the powerful powerful and the meek in poverty. My independence means I am there for you, to fix our government, to make it accountable once again. Let's fix this region.

Thank you.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

I'm an Independent now because I've been through all of the parties in this game, and frankly, all they are there for is to keep the powerful powerful and the meek in poverty.

If that is true, do you take some of the responsibility for that being the case as a former chair of what was then the largest party in the game?

Parties exist to advance common goals and interests, based on mutual support. It is far easier in my opinion for an established player to go indy then a new one. precisely because they have established support networks. They know the players. Newer folks can get elected and make a name for themselves by joining one of the parties. This is especially the case for Conservative leaning members on a liberal leaning forum.

You and Hagrid both got recruited by Parties and established yourselves both as members and even leaders of parties. I have all the respect in the world for someone deciding to go indy because they feel the parties don't represent them. But this notion that the Parties are bad for as yet unestablished players or harmful for the game in general is one I have to reject. There were parties before there were elections in Atlasia and they have driven Atlasian's political evolution. 


That said, I am glad you are back and wish you the best of luck in restoring the Midwest. You have turned the region around before afterall, and thus possess the ability to do so again.

[Maxwell]

Of course. I take responsibility for that when I was chairman of the Federalist Party. I pushed for candidates that were obviously not what the base wanted solely for the wins. But that's an old battle - The Midwest is in dire straits. If we are going to have a regional system, we have to make it work.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Of course. I take responsibility for that when I was chairman of the Federalist Party. I pushed for candidates that were obviously not what the base wanted solely for the wins. But that's an old battle - The Midwest is in dire straits. If we are going to have a regional system, we have to make it work.

But what the Midwest lacks to drive interest is competativeness. There were close elections, but Labor has always won, the opposition gave up and Labor could afford to get complacent. The last time you revived the Midwest, it was by building a competing apparatus and arguably that was the source of what gave us those competative elections for close to two years afterwards.

The best antitode to complacency and inactivity is the constant threat of losing the next election.