NC Yankee for Federalist Party Chair (Its Time for Sanity to Come Back)

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Since it seems threads for chair bids is a thing now.

We face a critical time, a critical time for this party and a critical time for this game. I am convinced that this game is at its best when it is competitive and competitive based on ideas, policies and principles. This game will neither be stable nor healthy long term if we remain in our present state with an overly dominate left.


Labor and the Game
Right now on the other side we have two very skilled people promising and pledging to maintain and extend what is at present an over extended Labor Party and a lopsidedly imbalanced game. If they follow through on those promises, Labor itself will be dead within one year, and so will the game as a whole. Either a mass effort for mutual dissolution or the splintering of the "Single Party" state, will be the inevitable result if things continue as they are.

I have long believed that this game is strongest when we build up, not tear each down. I believe that if we are to be successful as a right in challenging the left and winning back control of the government, we are going to have to emphasize building up and we going to have to stop focusing so much on who we want to destroy.

Fixating on Singular Opponents/Targetting People for Destruction
For too long, the go to strategy has been to identify someone on the left for destruction and then try and turn everyone else against them. This was the case with Adam, with Pericles and with many others. This very strategy has failed us time and again. It was this brain dead strategy that revived Labor and left us in our weakened state. Such hijinks, while they may sound good in the echo chamber, achieve a self defeating result. If the strategy succeeds, guess what the divisive component is destroyed and the left reunites. Therefore, it doesn't work.

Personality Cults
Furthermore and I know this will pain some folks with delusions of grandeur but, THE ERA OF CULTS is over. Here again, the strategy of collecting a diverse group of people as supporters around a single solitary Federalist, has twice led us to ruin. When the cult leader departs, the adherents default to their comfort zone and the end is electoral disaster. We need to rebuild the  ideological factions based on principles and ensure that be they Conservative, Libertarian or Moderate that they are equally represented and fairly treated in our party.

Appealing to Swing Voters
We also need to attract swing voters, the proper way. 1. We have got to clean up our act and be respectful to people, including those we disagree with. 2. We have got to be the grown ups in the room. 3. We have to offer reasonable alternatives and proposals and 4. Derive support from success and accomplishment in office. While personality voting and such forth will likely remain a fixture in the game and thus a component of outreach, it shouldn't be the dominate means by which support is obtained.

If not us, who?
It seems to me, that many people in his party expect someone else to make the changes necessary for us to win. The problem is that we don't have a lack of a skilled leadership offering the appropriate advice. The problem in this party is we have a membership that refuses to listen and forgets every bit of reason and common sense the moment they start hanging out with the wrong crowd with their turned baseball caps and their baggy jeans...

If you want to be successful, if you want to be able to win the Presidency at some point as someone who has done it twice, and helped many others pull it off I can tell you all that you need to do to make it happen. But if you ignore the advice and continue doing the same things you have done forever, you should be little surprised that nothing changes.

Hard Road Ahead
I alone, cannot make the changes necessary so that we can win. There is nothing I can do on my own that will give us victory. WE on the other hand must make those changes together. We don't have any of the advantages that the left has. We cannot just sit back and reap the rewards of the forum's natural lean, conservatives are far less willing to join just to be come zombies voters as well. Perhaps I might have missed it, but we don't have any lefties joining our side for the sake of a "conservative persona". And we most certainly cannot fill our ranks with the legions of ex lefties who evolved into Conservatives. We have nearly always faced disadvantages and yet through hard work we overcame tough odds before for the sake of the right and for the sake of the game.


It takes effort and determination, sweat and tears, blood and toil. In the modern day we have become lazy, weak, disinterested and distracted. We divided ourselves instead of focusing on what unites us. We forgot why we sought office in the first place and we neglected to maintain the wall of separation with RL US politics, a firewall that literally protected us from getting torched to death. We surrendered most of the positives that made us so different from the RL GOP and still lost a huge chunk to a breakaway movement. And yet instead of learning the lessons, we doubled down on failure and we have seen the results of that.

It Can Be Done
We have been here before, and we came back before because just FOUR people stood up and said no we will not go quietly into night, we will not be silenced and we will not let this party die. We fought the radicals for our own survival long before anyone else had to for the game's survival and we can claim to have beaten them twice.  Even if three of those four have left, gone inactive or evolved, I AM STILL HERE and I want to fight back with your help.

Our Principles and a Welcoming Atlasia
To fight back we have to know what we are fighting for. This party has always been a constitutionalist party and we believe in the rights of the regions. We believe that spending should be paid for. We believe that life should not be just an afterthought and that our regional bans on late term abortion are maintained (enacted where repealed). We want an education system that works and we support a healthcare system that respects both choice and the regions (like we have now) while helping those who need it. For years we were able to unify and win a broad coalition of people on these principles in game and we stuck to them like glue and maintained a thick and high wall of separation from the cesspool that is the real life politics. We also believe that this game should be open to all participants, not who the establishment or some elitist clique deems worthy of entry. But at the same time, we must respect and value each other and the contributions we all bring to the table, regardless of who or what they are.

The Call To Action
If you are up to the challenge, if want to set a higher standard. If you agree with most of our core tenants and you think this game can be more than just a one party left state and a right that fumes excessively and irrelevantly on discord servers, then join me and help me rebuild an Atlasian right that we all can be proud of once again.

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