Between Dream and Reality: A Senate Campaign

[Insula Dei]

This is a notification that I'm running for the NE Senate seat, which I understand is currently held by Wormyguy. I will not pretend to be some sort of moderate with all sorts of plans for the Atlasian Future. Rather, I'm a dogmaticist who will be an unreflexive vote for whatever the Tweedist cause requires from the Senate. I will probably be absent a lot and only turn up to vote on some select bits of legislation.

I will still be an improvement.

[Insula Dei]

Ah sorry about that. You wouldn't know who else is standing by any chance?

[Insula Dei]

Au contraire, I am fully dedicated to a radical overhaul of the Atlasian 'state' and all of its institutions, as outlined by major presidential candidate Young Tweed. (The need to get rid of IRV, a return to a complete integration of the Atlasian project into the forum at large,...). This programme requires support in the legislative branch as well as full control of the executive branch.

'Tweedism' is no more than a portemanteau, a signifier that can serve to rally those dedicated to a revival of our republic. We are not a cult of personality, but a revolutionary vanguard.

[Insula Dei]

I'm not 'rejecting' the terms of the discussion, I'm openly admitting what I'll be: a reliable vote for the sort of change the Tweed campaign has outlined. I'll be an invisible man, not obscuring the cause with my personality. It would be idiotic for me to promise to post in every single Senate thread, when at the very heart of the 'ideology' I'm propagating is the idea is that the Senate is occupying itself with all sort of irrelevant little bits of nonsense.

Who cares about the system of taxation? Who cares about our defense budget? Atlasia is about the elections and about the drama that accompanies them. I will only vote on relevant legislation.

The terms of discussion are in the process of rejecting themselves.

[Insula Dei]

https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=153236.0

[Insula Dei]

Official Campaign Song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHkqcS503bg

[Insula Dei]

should be vsyo idyt po planu or w/e

That's true, actually.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mNxKkbGRCY

[Insula Dei]

Friends, countrymen, &cetera.

One 'issue' that's recently popped up in this 'game' is whether or not our regions should be redrawn. The Pacific and the Midwest, we are told, have too few 'active' members to function 'properly', as was recently demonstrated by the Pacific's inability to organise their gubernatorial election. Another example? The sorry state of the 'Althing', testament to the failure of 'participative democracy' in the MidWest.*

Let us not be fooled! This 'issue' is a mere attempt to divert our attention from the actual problems facing Atlasia. Rather than 'merging' the Pacific and the MidWest as some seem ready to suggest (, thus obviously eliminating a solidly 'liberal' senate seat), we should pay attention to the causes of inactivity. Tweedism is the movement of Atlasian Regeneration today, tough on inactivity, tough on the causes of inactivity.

What Atlasia needs is a new inspiration, a new source of passion. Something to fight for and something to loath. Who can feel passion about the drab, abstract 'legislation' debated in our Senate? Who could care about our boring succesion presidential elections between hordes of centre-right consensus tickets and 'joke tickets' (The actual joke being the suggestion that since X 'has put a lot of work in the game' and 'has worked hard' at his 'platform' consisting out of tedious platitudes, he makes 'a good president'). We need but look at the current administration to know what I'm talking about.

To fix the problem we need but elect Tweed to the presidency and myself and 2 or three others to the Senate. In addition to that we might consider switching to Senate Districts rather than the current regions, without changing anything about the regional map. (As was championed by that great Atlasian veteran, ilikeverin.)

Keep this in mind when you're asked what you could mean for 'Atlasia'.

Vale!


*: And how could a project so drastically opposed to the principles on which Atlasia as an 'election game' was built, ever have been succesful? One should recognise a contradiction in terminis when one encounters it.


Felt inspired just now.