Game reform is such a tragic issue at this point. It's a cause that suffers from, basically,
complete lack of leadership. Big parties have no incentive to push for reform, and major candidates either pay lip service to the idea and just propose little tiny things in the end, or they just kick the can down the road. It's absolutely pathetic. There are no eloquent leaders in office at this point that are actually trying to gather a consensus, one proposal at a time, to improve this game. Hell, so many people can't even step out of character and admit it is a game that we're supposed to keep fresh and interesting. We have radicals without substance or good talkers without motive.
I desperately desperately wish we had better people to choose from on this issue. Teddy is radical but suffers from complete lack of detail and Polnut is the other side of the coin, paying lip service to the notion of reform but on every single issue he has some half-assed position in the middle of just
talking about things and kicking the can down the road to someone else. There's just no good choices when it comes to this stuff.
Some radical proposals, including those in this thread, are obviously interesting. But no major proposals will ever pass. It just won't happen. Whether it's due to stubbornness from people who don't realize this is a
game, or large groups that torpedo certain issues purely for personal reasons, we've been down this road of radical proposals a million times, and we never get anywhere. We shouldn't even waste our time getting our hopes up.
(That was a little too depressing, I guess.
I should say there are good ideas out there, I think, and ways to dramatically work within our current system to make things infinitely more interesting, but people need the courage to actually talk about them, we need actual leaders to champion them, and we need the parties to be open to risking the stability of their current power structure for the greater good.)
