Greetings, to Labor Members and passersby who happen to read this thread
The last four months concluded with an emphatic win, at all levels of government, for the Labor Party. While I was optimistic, the scale of this victory shocked even myself. However, our work is not done, and we must not take this result for granted. It was through our hard work and unity that we turned a 52% final round share into a 67% final round share, and only through continued hard work and unity can we keep on winning. I want to thank the entire Labor team, and our allies in Peace, for the amazing victory we just achieved.
I am proud of my role in helping achieve this result, and I have the skills and experience to deliver great results for our party in the future. This is why I am running for chair of the Labor Party, and ask for the trust of the party membership to lead Labor forward. I am also proud to announce that I am running with Peanut and Devout Centrist, and I hope that Peanut is elected Vice-Chair as my successor for that role and Devout Centrist is elected General Secretary.
Here are several key points that I want to emphasize and that I will work on if elected chair:
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Delivering our policy objectives: Our results give us a great opportunity to enact progressive policy for Atlasia. We must not let this go to waste. A warning in this regard is late 2018 where Labor failed to properly take advantage of the opportunities we had then, and now that we have an even bigger mandate and even more opportunities the pressure is on us to deliver. Federally, we must stick together and have an active and productive Congress. Perhaps even more importantly, regionally we need to take full advantage of the opportunities we have, especially in the South where our wins there are unusual. An issue we saw in the South in the last four months was the left failing to resist right-wing bills being rammed through with improper debate, and so we must have greater communication between regional office-holders and the federal party to coordinate a policy agenda. This is an area where I can not do everything by myself, but Peanut and Devout Centrist are two talented individuals especially with policy, and I am confident we will succeed here.
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Promotion of new members: It is always an important consideration to ensure we have continual renewal in the party and that new players and previously inactive players get the opportunity to succeed in Atlasia. The experience of the Federalist Party right now shows the dire consequences if we fail in this regard. Fortunately, we have had great success here in the last few months-such as Elcaspar now being elected a Labor Representative in the House. We have also had success in adding existing players like S019 and thumb21 to our party. Keeping this going and building on it will be a key objective for me in the next four months.
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Building a Labor community: We have had great success recently in creating more of a community-feel to our party and including more voters. I believe this is a key part of our recent success. Notably, for the first time in years, no Labor members preferenced either Federalist ticket above the Labor ticket. Our members must not feel distant from Atlasia but be included in the party and be given every opportunity to be part of Atlasia. This is not just the right thing to do for the game, it will build up our party and help stop us returning to the dark days of 2017 and 2018.
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Unity: Finally, and related to my previous point, we need to retain the unity we have had over the last four months. There is a risk that people become complacent and focus more on self-interest rather than the good of the party and Atlasia as a whole, we must not let that happen. Part of our success in this regard was the closeness of our win in June, YT coming within 6 votes of being Griff made clear that we had to work to stop the Federalists retaking the presidency. Even though this election was not close, we must still be vigilant. I reject the talk of the right being dead-the right has not and never has died, and it always comes back. If we do not recognize that reality, it will be back sooner. We must ward off complacency, and continue to work as a team for our shared goal. A good sign from this election was that the one real example of division on the left ended up badly for the instigator, this example will hopefully show people that the best way for you to succeed in Atlasia is to help Labor succeed.
Finally, I want to set a clear expectation that this result, while great, is probably not the new norm. My goal is for us, in four months time, to have retained the presidency, both houses of Congress and continue to have strong representation regionally (and probably majorities in at least 2 regional governments). This is not inevitable, but we can do this, and we will do this if we come together. The first step is electing the Pericles/Peanut/Devout Centrist slate. Thank you for reading, and let's do this!
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