Bist us dead?

[Filuwaúrdjan]

We are... what... a few weeks away from the Presidential election? And there are only two tickets? And there's been sod all election "noise" here. Or anything. Now the point of this game was, and is, elections. Elections are what drives the beast, what fuels the machine. And there's... nothing, really, nothing. What on earth is going on, what on earth is wrong?

How bad is the state that we're in now? I mean, just one ticket running against what has been, with all due respect, a failed administration? And both tickets, incumbent and challenger, are (within the special fantasyland definition of the term) broadly speaking "centrist". There's been nowt from the right and (perhaps more surprisingly) nowt from the left. If this is all that's left, then I just don't think there's any point in any of us carrying on with this game. Dull elections between two shades of the same pale-ish blue? Is that all? Is that it?

And all this "region versus feds" nonsense is just a distraction, just a sideshow, from the main problems we have here. Pretty much all the regional governments (including the one run by the loudest howlers) are pretty much dead. Dead, at least, to all but the people actively involved in regional politics. Giving "more powers" to the regions (they actually have rather a lot already) won't do a damn thing, letting them intrude into the federal legislative process would kill the game stone dead. The Senate only just about works at the moment. And it is slow, tedious and really, really fucking dull most of the time. Add much more bullshit to wade through and it drowns in it.

But the main problem, the biggest problem, is that we don't do fun elections anymore. Well, not for the showpiece anyway. The STV elections Midterm are fun (if perhaps a little stressful for the candidates), but that's it. Are there even going to be regional Senate elections this month, or are we dealing with a bunch of unopposed races? I'm sorry that I have to ask, because I'm not actually heard anything or seen anything from anyone actually running in them.

What, and if you know the answer please do tell me, is the point of this place if we cannot do interesting elections?

[Filuwaúrdjan]

I am not really sure if we can really accomplish a game in which people are really involved and elections are really interesting.

But that's how it used to be! For years!

[Filuwaúrdjan]

If you really think about it now Atlasia's been in a drought longer than its been flourishing.

 

Good point actually. As is this:

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I suppose another problem is that there are no issues here anymore (other than "forum affairs" stuff, which only interests a distinct minority).

[Filuwaúrdjan]

In my view we need another FEC

You might be right about that, actually.

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lol

[Filuwaúrdjan]

In order for this game to work people need to devote a relatively large amount of time. It seems, in my opinion, that people aren't really willing to do that at the present moment (myself included).

The healthier the game is, the less time people need to devote to it, I think. Vicious cycle.

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Yes, this is the sort of thing that used to be common but doesn't really go on now. To an extent what we've seen is the death of civil society. Politics has continued anyway, but becomes increasingly meaningless.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

The problem is this is unnecessarily complicated and information is difficult to access.

DING DING DING!  I have no idea on how to fix it, but this has always been my biggest problem here.  I always thought it was just me and my apathy/lack of intelligence.

Yeah, the problem of the vast bodies of rules, laws and so on that we've created has been obvious for a while, though nothing's ever really been done about it.