The Leinad Interview
First off, it’s a pleasure to have you here. Now I, and many readers know you’ve been elected Representative. Tell me how your return to politics has been?
It's been interesting. I've been reminded why I played this game, but also why I left. There's lots of annoying things in the game that grind my gears, but at it's heart it's a pretty fascinating and addictive political simulation game, so, not all bad!
Pretty good for the most part. My own region's assembly race was pretty clear evidence we need more candidates so we don't have to bring old failures out of self-exile, but that's nothing new at all. *
shrugs*
As you know I endorsed Yankee, and I think he's the best option. I do think Lumine's excellent and would've voted for him in some circumstances, but now his candidacy seems redundant. The only
real issue (i.e. not "reform" or "transparency") where Lumine and Yankee disagree seems to be foreign policy--but Lumine's VP pick obviously negates that. It is confusing. Lumine/Siren has a great banner, though. Glad we have distanced ourselves from the bland white-text-on-red MAGA-style Labor banners
Also I'm genuinely curious if Ninja is trying. After almost three weeks of his campaign he's only done one thing since his announcement--which was literally saying false information about Yankee. Onto the most important matter, "NinjAZ" is one of the better combined ticket portmanteaus I've seen (although "Blingpoleon" is probably the GOAT on that front).
Lastly, this is actually quite an interesting election, what with the alliances that are forming. It's obviously weird that all the tickets are running down the middle more or less, but from a "political nerd" point of view that kinda makes it more fun, for the novelty of it. The adventures of Post-Duopoly Atlasia!
(Obviously knowing how politics works it will also be Pre-Duopoly, but that's for later on
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I'm not all too familiar with the details, but from what I understand it seems pretty good.
Ideally: [dramatic music] fundamentally transform the nature of the game.
Realistically: vote for good bills, fix mediocre bills, kill bad bills with fire, chime in with debate as much as I can.
One thing I think is important is to cut down on the "echo-chamber" nature of the House. We often do get in this zone where we focus on BS things like "working together" and empty platitudes like "be more active" and the game gets dull. I will admit that at this point in my life I'm hardly prolific with "bill ideas" myself, so I guess it's a bit of a "pulling the speck out of my brother's eye when there's a plank in my own" deal, but hey, isn't that politics?
