Ramblings on the House

[At-Large Senator LouisvilleThunder]

Also while I can see why the House is considered a lower post to some, it is suppose to be an equal branch to the Senate, not beneath it.

I think this is due to the culture of the House as a 9 member body results it in being a place where the two sides (left and right) are pressured too much to obey orders from whoever is the dominant member of their party or ideological hemisphere. That sort of idea isn't really fun, and by the way people act in this game towards disagreement, it's easy to end up getting disengaged as a House member.

[At-Large Senator LouisvilleThunder]

I will say that for a (relatively) new player it's also not impossible to make a jump directly to the Senate, nor is it impossible for someone to win an election in an "ideologically hostile" region (though it is getting increasingly hard I believe).

A good example is probably my election against LT. At the time I was still very new, having only served to fill a vacancy in the Southern CoD for like a month. Meanwhile, LT was someone from the right trying to run in a left wing region (though Lincoln is still more of a tossup than Fremont).

End result: We both tie twice; with Lincoln electing both a right winger and a new player to the Senate.

I know right! Labor used to love the Senate as they have the current structural advantage based on regional registration, and that allowed them to take those two Lincoln seats for granted by electing inactive hacks. Now that their birthright slipped from the palms of their hands they want to change the Senate. Sad!!!

[At-Large Senator LouisvilleThunder]

I will say that for a (relatively) new player it's also not impossible to make a jump directly to the Senate, nor is it impossible for someone to win an election in an "ideologically hostile" region (though it is getting increasingly hard I believe).

A good example is probably my election against LT. At the time I was still very new, having only served to fill a vacancy in the Southern CoD for like a month. Meanwhile, LT was someone from the right trying to run in a left wing region (though Lincoln is still more of a tossup than Fremont).

End result: We both tie twice; with Lincoln electing both a right winger and a new player to the Senate.

I know right! Labor used to love the Senate as they have the current structural advantage based on regional registration, and that allowed them to take those two Lincoln seats for granted by electing inactive hacks. Now that their birthright slipped from the palms of their hands they want to change the Senate. Sad!!!

Don't worry, Labor will fix that mistake in June

You mean not supporting me in February?

If not:

[At-Large Senator LouisvilleThunder]

Let's just make a new branch of government and 5 people are elected to it. The new branch will be called the Iron Branch and the speaker of the branch sits on the Iron Throne.  

Taking place in the fictional Three Kingdoms of Nymanos, "A Song of Federalists and Laborites" is a series of epic fantasy tales set in a fictional world where elections take place every four months, and often end unpredictably. Nearly three years before the events of the main story the Three Kingdoms were reunited in the distant and semi-legendary Long Reset, establishing the supremacy of the mighty Fourth Constitution and heralding an era of political upheaval, Discord intrigue and electoral zombie wars.

At the beginning of "A Game of Atlas", two peaceful and prosperous months have passed since the rebellion led by Lord Tmthforu of House Federalist, that after the successful capture of Nym's Landing managed to depose and exile the descendants of the last Laborite King, Weatherboy I "the Missing King" and thus proclaimed Tmth king of the Three Kingdoms. The principal story will chronicle the power struggle for the Iron House among the Great Houses of Nymanos and the rising ambition of the exiled descendants of House Labor, plotting their return from the distant lands of Fremontos...

(Couldn't resist. I might as well attempt to chronicle tales from Atlasia in ASOIAF style one day)

Can you write a chronicle about the events between Nov 2018 and today? That would be a great read.