The Case For a New Left

[Fmr President & Senator Polnut]

I just love being walloped in the nuts. Given we have no idea what would have happened if I had been elected, it's a bit rich to presume the worst.

Seriously... I'm being listed as a reason for the collapse of the PLP?

It really wasn't too hard it figure out why.

The NLC. It became the party for almost all but a fringe of those on the left and the right.
You had the well administered thought generally uninspiring Wixted presidency. Then you had the influx of two new, generally very left wing, groups come in. One lot, went to PLP - and started to overwhelm whatever moderate-minded people were left.

Then you had another lot who joined the JCP. The JCP is not a party, it's a regional tribe. It wins elections in the Pacific, since that's virtually where all the members are.

I'm not running for anything, and certainly don't intend to again. So people best start looking at the real reasons why there's no legitimate left banner in Atlasia.   The thing that SO many are over-looking. This is an ELECTION sim, in elections you have the inspiring windbags (which seems to include me) - people will get bored and leave when the game is only about administration. People need and want those whole parts of the game of politics that are so rarely used... and if fact discounted by many who are judging an adminstration that never happened.

I have no idea if there was any point to that...

[Fmr President & Senator Polnut]

It's no longer possible to unite the left, that's why I run the Progressive Primary so that at least once every four months we can come together and participate in something meaningful. My original intention was to unite the left, but that's not something I'm willing to even try anymore.

The left cannot be united.... because like most things it's a battle between ideology and reality.

[Fmr President & Senator Polnut]

Sure I had my disagreements with then President Wixted from his second term onwards but he wasn't a bad President. During the Wixted Presidency, he and Vice President Jas tried his best to get Atlasia moving ago in all it's forms, though it was primarily the Federal Government, which was done thanks to the work of then Vice President Jas. Colin's Presidency might have been un inspiring to some in Atlasia but he was surely better than the incumbent President.

No, I never thought Colin was a bad president, he was just more of an administrator. In Atlasia (since I've been here a little longer than I was before I became ME Gov. and made a ton of mistakes... which I've acknowledged) the President is the big-picture leader - it's the VP who gets into the day-to-day policy nitty-gritty. What I thought the problem (if you can call it that) was that it was a presidency of two vice-presidents.

Yes, I thought he was uninspiring, because the public does need that from time to time, but never did I say he was a bad or ineffective president. I do think he focused too much on certain things, but that's not for me to judge.