Labor Party June Convention -- NOW UPDATING THE PLATFORM!

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I nominate Paducah, Kentucky.

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Paducah
Harper City
Milwaukee

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I motion that we endorse Turkisblau in the Pacific.

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I hadn't realized you left the party.

At any rate, I motion that we endorse Talleyrand, as well. The other people running for his spot are terrible.

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I second evergreen's motion.

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Comrades -

To interject for a moment, I would like to propose that we undertake yet another modernization of the party bylaws and the party platform at this session, especially the latter. We have gone without anything resembling a coherent set of ideals for what Labor should be doing in office for the past year or so, and have, with the exception of the debacle that was the attempt at energy nationalization, failed to pursue an agenda, as a party, in the Senate or at the Regional level. I think that this is frankly embarrassing and that if we continue to not have any sort of unifying ideological or political perspectives, to say nothing of goals for what we want to accomplish, we risk pulling apart into hostile camps, be they consisting of those of us on the socialist left or the social democratic right.

We have not made any progress on expanding the welfare state, which should be our number one priority for chrissake. Atlasia still lacks single-payer health insurance, to say nothing of a profound lack of access to housing, employment (we suffer persistently high employment in the regions), etc., mostly for fears of an 'unbalanced budget,' or fears that we might have to actually fight for higher taxation in order to make these proposals bear fruit. I have spent the past two years in the Senate fighting for an active and responsive federal government, and have had only cursory support from my colleagues in this effort, let alone our party. With my retirement from the Senate, I am only asking that even the tepid efforts I was able to spearhead in the Senate are defended and expanded. The party needs an agenda or it needs to stop pretending that it has any goals beyond defeating the Federalists, Civic Renewal, the People's Party, or the Democratic-Republicans.

I fear that we are entering a profound period of inactivity and, perhaps, reaction, in Atlasia. The lackluster presidential race this time around, and utterly harmless pieces of legislation on the Senate floor, attest to that. We can stop that from happening, or at least, slow the process. But to do so means we must be active and bold. We can no longer afford to allow the political process to be dominated by the moderate heroes who would rather us not place demands upon the federal government for socialization of energy, workers' control of production, or expansive civil rights legislation.

It's time for the Labor Party to put up or shut up.

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1. Talleyrand

1. Hagrid

1. Turkisblau

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I don't think that we should get that intimately involved in the household, tbh. I am fine with a ban on state enforced corporal punishment, but I think that corporal punishment bans in the home are ultimately going to be (a) erratically enforced and (b) result in more low income people ending up in the prison system

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I don't think the state should be perusing around the household and disciplining parents for how they choose to discipline their children. At any rate, if such a policy is brought up for a vote, I will vote against it.