ScottSurveys: The Regional Restructuring Amendment of 2012 (user search)
       |           

Welcome, Guest. Please login or register.
Did you miss your activation email?
June 15, 2024, 11:13:47 PM
News: Election Simulator 2.0 Released. Senate/Gubernatorial maps, proportional electoral votes, and more - Read more

  Talk Elections
  Atlas Fantasy Elections
  Atlas Fantasy Elections (Moderators: Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee, Lumine)
  ScottSurveys: The Regional Restructuring Amendment of 2012 (search mode)
Pages: [1]
Poll
Question: What is your opinion of the recently proposed Regional Restructuring Amendment of 2012, and the region you are currently living in?
#1
Positive (Northeast)
 
#2
Negative (Northeast)
 
#3
Positive (Mideast)
 
#4
Negative (Mideast)
 
#5
Positive (Southeast)
 
#6
Negative (Southeast)
 
#7
Positive (Midwest)
 
#8
Negative (Midwest)
 
#9
Positive (Pacific)
 
#10
Negative (Pacific)
 
Show Pie Chart
Partisan results

Total Voters: 29

Author Topic: ScottSurveys: The Regional Restructuring Amendment of 2012  (Read 2648 times)
ilikeverin
Atlas Politician
Atlas Icon
*****
Posts: 16,409
Timor-Leste


« on: May 23, 2012, 11:59:02 PM »

Extremely negative.  I have no idea what is up with everyone wanting to destroy the Midwest.  At the very least, people should realize that the current Midwestern and Pacifican streak of inactivity is a symptom of an underlying problem, not an issue in-and-of-itself.
Logged
ilikeverin
Atlas Politician
Atlas Icon
*****
Posts: 16,409
Timor-Leste


« Reply #1 on: May 24, 2012, 08:49:11 AM »

Extremely negative.  I have no idea what is up with everyone wanting to destroy the Midwest.  At the very least, people should realize that the current Midwestern and Pacifican streak of inactivity is a symptom of an underlying problem, not an issue in-and-of-itself.
that underlying problem being?

That the regional system allows for such disparities between the regions, sequestering activity within a certain segment of the population rather than allowing it to spread beyond the borders of a certain segment of Atlasia.  If, say, the Northeast were able to influence the activity in the Midwest and Pacific, the current problems in those regions could easily be resolved; it's not like the government systems in those regions are permanently broken.  (Okay, the Midwest's needs to be fixed a bit, but I'm trying to work on that Tongue)  However, because 1) no one wants to move and 2) the Regions are, well, legally independent Regions, there's no way for activity in one region to influence another.  Thus, the Midwest and Pacific remain shells of their former self.

The reason why the idea that abolishing the Midwest will make things magically better is a particularly stupid one is that the problems that we and the Pacific are having are not at all intrinsically due to the composition of the regions, as I previously stated.  These problems could just as easily happen to the Northeast, the Southeast, or the Mideast (and, indeed, when such proposals were floated in the past it was usually the Mideast that was proposed for abolition, because it used to be the low-activity region and doesn't make much sense geographically).  Even should one wish to conclude that universalism or whatever it is the Pacific has are failures, we could change our constitutions to make it better.  Let's say we do get rid of the Midwest.  What if the Pacific continued being as inactive as it is?  Do we get rid of that, too?  And what if the Mideast is next?
Logged
Pages: [1]  
Jump to:  


Login with username, password and session length

Terms of Service - DMCA Agent and Policy - Privacy Policy and Cookies

Powered by SMF 1.1.21 | SMF © 2015, Simple Machines

Page created in 0.032 seconds with 14 queries.