Zero In Polling: Presidential Approval

[Chancellor Tanterterg]

This is a perfect example of why no real game reform proposals seem to go anywhere.  Everyone talks a good game about how they either want major structural changes of some sort or how they've supposedly led the fight for some big package of minor and inoffensive "reforms" like re-editing the Constitution.  But any time someone has the guts to actually try to implement real changes (i.e. meaningful game reform), whether they be consolidation, a two country game, etc, at least half of Atlasia seems to collectively lose its s[Inks].  The leaders of the anti-reform movement seem to be party-bigwigs, old-guard Atlasians, and major party Presidential candidates (i.e. those who stand to lose the most "power" from fundamental structural changes).  Even with something like consolidation which has been the baby of the Labor establishment, it was folks like Hagrid and ZuWo who led the opposition rather than rank-and-file Federalists who were generally opposed, but not nearly as passionately or uncompromisingly). 

What has become increasingly clear is that the great game reform divide in Atlasia is not over any single type of reform.  Instead, it is between those who want meaningful structural changes and those who want to keep talking about change while fighting to preserve the status quo (including multiple establishment figures in all four parties).  President Cranberry should've presented the peace treaty to the Senate for ratification or something, but let's stop pretending that the reaction would've been different in any meaningful way if he did so.  Regardless of whether or not one supports the peace treaty, at least the President had the guts to try to change the failed dynamic of Atlasia's status quo.  That's more than can be said of many of his critics!  Admittedly, there are a few who have tried to do so, but not very many.