Federalist Main Street Partnership (v2.0)

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

X NC Yankee.

I will not be voting or holding official capacity due to my position in the in the Party, but I will maintain membership in all Federalist caucuses and serve in an advisory capacity.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Time to start thinking about forming a Caucus level platform. This will form a guide for the leader of the caucus on what to push for in the Platform Committee and in turn influence the Federalist Party Platform as a whole.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Call me when you add full communism now to the Fed platform.

Silly Peebs!

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We were always Communist.


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[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Call me when you add full communism now to the Fed platform.

Silly Peebs!

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We were always Communist.


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Then stop parading around as the "center-right" party and run to the left of Labor!

Remember we inherited some of the economic platform of the Whigs, who were founded as a "Communitarian Party", sort of Christian Democratic Party like you would find in Europe. The bold stuff is the stuff we changed in the 2014, the non-bolded stuff in my quote existed from the Platform committee in December 2012. A large portion of that came from the Whig Party platform, before the merger that formed the Federalist Party.

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https://uselectionatlas.org/AFEWIKI/index.php/Whig_Party

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

If "RTW" is restricted to that effect, that would work.

We should also proceed with measures to prevent the state or region-wide banning of certain or all labor unions, (like teacher's unions in IRL NC), and we should stamp out 'employment-at-will' contracts, allowing employers to fire employees for any and all reasons (including participating in a labor union).

On another subject, it comes to mind that we should probably pursue a constitutional amendment legalizing and protecting the right of all couples to marry, regardless of the gender or lack thereof, of both or either party/ies (so federal law maintains that couples of all sexual orientations have the right to marry). This would serve to prevent things like this.

I would recommend for consideration the importance of viewing these matters from a perspective of the game. Centralizing all determinations on these issues, sort of "denying the regions of the ability to make a mistake" also means denying them the chance to get it right. Pre-reset this thought process led to the regions being drained of vitality because they were of so little consequence. A good deal of the reset legislatively, was meant to enable the Regions to flex their muscles and thus give meaning to the elections for Regional Governor and for Regional Legislature.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

I don't think single payer is a good idea, maybe universal healthcare as a whole but single payer is likely too far left for the platform.

Do you still have that map handy. 


Speaking from a real life perspective, I found it very informative. Most countries have a form of national healthcare, but only the Commonwealth realms + Japan have Single Payer.

All the others have some form of mixed system. Though this gets lost in the political debate because in an us versus them sense we have no universal system of any kind, while every other nation has something pretty much, and that/plus our close proximity to Canada and close political influence on and from the UK, pushes that in a single payer direction, when it is not even a system that most European Countries have.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

The real question is: what part of the Feds is not the Main Street Partnership

Main Street Federalism is how the Federalist Party has adapted to meet and address the insecurities, which are widespread problem and a threat to the longer term stability and strength of democratic institutions and core values, if left undress (For an example of what happens when you don't address them: Trump, Donald J.). This differentiates us from the real life Republican Party in that it means we don't pretend certain problems aren't real, to facilitate a pre-made agenda imposed by donors. Instead, we acknowledge the problems and then work for solutions to those problems in ways the comport with our values and philosophy of constitutionalism, market choice and opposing concentrated power bases.

So like a Main Street Federalist wouldn't deny that a problem exists with income inequality, most wouldn't deny the reality of climate change and a good number are equally as concerned about concentrated financial power as they are about concentrated gov't power.

Most all Federalists hold similar views on this subject. There is a matter of issue prioritization in a game though. For instance some are more concerned about opposing government power and focus and prioritize that. Some are more concerned with foreign policy and some are more conservative in a traditional RL sense. There is a strong and vibrant coalition in the Federalist Party and thus a wide variety of conservatives be they RL Republicans of varying degrees or even some real life Democrats who hold values and principles of responsible finance (blue dogs), interest in opposing concentrated power bastions (Populists) or both, and thus would fit into a Burkean context but for a variety of reasons and issues or legacy or general stupidity on the part of the RL Republicans, are Democrats in real life, but "conservative" in a more traditional definition and thus Federalists in the game.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

LT you have things to do in here.