The New Century: A Parliament for The People

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Has Labor lost any seats so far? I'd like to see them lose at least one

And what happened to the Farmer-Populists? Was it something like what happened to the Lib Dems in 2015?

Great work! (Can't wait for DFW's results)

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Could I see Blackland Prairie-Lavon, Dallas North-Fort Worth East, Denton, Fossil Rim-Fort Worth West, Dallas South, and Arlington-Waxahachie-Corsicana? Thanks!

Edit: I guess I could have just said the DFW tossups

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Oh, could you also post the popular vote (or just the percentages)?

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Ileana's Dream

Ileana had oversaw the creation of a new party, winning a decent amount of seats. But she worried for the future of her young party - with no obvious heir, Ileana could not retire without the Civic Union falling apart.

She also knew that her party could never end up leading the country as a primary party in a coalition. The seats her party could target simply weren't there - too economically left-wing Labor areas and too socially conservative Conservative ares.

There's a way I could solve this.

Ileana still had a rapport with Labor from the days she crossed party lines and defied Liberal leadership to help Pelosi form a government. Without Ileana, the Labor government would not have come into existence.

She had a radical plan: get rid of districts entirely. Instead, mimic the electoral system in the Netherlands, Israel, and other countries. This would allow her party to flourish, as would other parties.

Of course, this required a constitutional amendment -2/3 votes in the Parliament and then a strong majority of approval in a national, compulsory referendum.

She dialed on her phone:

"Hey, Barack. Got a minute to talk? I'm think about cashing in that favor."


Parties in support of this amendment:
Labor
CU
National Alignment
Red Party
Libertarians
Christian Democrats


Parties opposed:
Conservatives
New Deseret
Texan National
Farmers-Populist
All Puerto Rican parties
Paul Ryan
Native Interests (unless seats are set aside)

Yay it's back!

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Something Rotten in the State of Texas, part 2

Excerpt from a Vogue article, January 12th, 2019

Progressive nationalism: is such a thing possible? Texan Solidarity Party founder and Texas MSP Wendy Davis thinks so.

"Sid Miller ain't the only one around here who loves Texas."

Davis is perhaps most famous for a 14-hour filibuster to prevent a law restricting abortion from passing; since then, the former Labor Party legislator has been looking to even bigger things: secession, but towards a more leftist direction.

Davis's TSP is the left's foil to Miller's TNP: a democratic socialist, socially liberal, and egalitarian movement that still sees Texas's position in the United States as harming the state's potential.

"Texans pay much more in taxes than then they get back from the federal government – for every dollar they receive, Texans pay a premium of nearly a dime. Imagine how that money can be used to help Texas's struggling regions - whether it's the Rio Grande Valley, the Panhandle, or the inner cities, and help the state move forward as a whole."

TSP, or Solidarity for short, wasn't ready to contest seats in the nation election in November. However, with many defections from both Labor and the Civic Union, Davis believes the party is strongly positioned to gain many seats in the February state parliamentary elections. In fact, polling has had Solidarity nipping at TNP's heels - 34% to the right-wing party's 38%. While Texan branches of national parties are also contesting this election - especially Labor, which holds the second largest number of federal seats from Texas - Solidarity has managed to break out and take second place in the polls. Davis believes that perhaps a Solidarity-Labor alliance could help the left take back Cook House for the first time since 1996.

Solidarity is taking a strong left platform in the election, specifically targeting the oil industry, which it wants to nationalize. Davis points to the success of countries like Norway in providing for their citizens through a nationalization of energy industries.

Davis can perhaps be described as "Nicola Sturgeon in cowboy boots" - a left-nationalist who seeks to radically change life in her state, and to, one day, make it a country.

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What are her party's stances on social issues? I think this would be one of the biggest factors of success in Texas (as it seems with most other politics around here). For example, at least OTL, the fact that she was for abortion was a tad of a deal-breaker in the suburbs (along with her horribly bad campaigning skills) in the gubernatorial election in 2014. Although, did I mention she has horrible campaigning skills?

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hey also can we please not quote entire entries! just post your comment below – we're smart enough to know what you're reacting to.

Whoops sorry