It was better than nothing, though one election cycle I would actually like to see the RPP/POP back a ticket running on a genuinely conservative/libertarian platform. It's not like we'll win over any JCPers regardless of what we run on.
True.
I actually think this is the problem with the game. A strong, united left dominates national fantasyland politics. When one goes back to the active periods of Atlasia, one will find that the right and left were far more evenly matched than now. Nym won with only one vote in the first Presidential election, after all.
Given that and other evidence it seems that the Atlas used to be far more conservative than it is now. Is that true?
No... Lore has it that a bunch people from other websites flooded the mock presidential map.
I wasn't around for it, but some of the forum olds would tell you (and I've seen myself in ancient threads) the forum was more conservative circa 04-05.
Could an old confirm this?
Atlasia was certainly more on the right in the early days.
When I said old, I think it is implied that I want somebody who registered before I did to respond
Well, I'm not trying to be an authority on the subject. It's legislation passed during 2004-5 and election results (both of which are found on the Wiki) seem to be more on the right than Atlasia today.