Parliament of Recommendations

[Joseph Cao]

A bicameral parliament based on my last 100 posts; the Senate counts unique posters, while the People's House counts individual recommendations. Given the parliamentary setting, I also assumed – possibly unwisely – that party or coalitional loyalty is determined strictly on a left-right basis. Exceptions were made for two posters (TimTurner and Cath) who I gave up on trying to classify, and are therefore listed separately.

Leaders and major figures in the Senate are, in most cases, the posters who gave the most recommendations within their party. Party whips in the House are the posters who gave the most recommendations overall. For giving the most recommendations over the longest time period (an admittedly arbitrary measure), lfromnj is elected House speaker.

Greater Louisiana's Second Congressional District Area election results, May 2020:

56 seats in the Senate (27 for majority, 38 for supermajority)

“The Future is Cao” Alliance (19 seats):
Republican Party: 11 seats (Leader: Mark Meadows)
Conservative Independents: 4 seats (Leader: Encke)
Other Right-Leaning: 1 seat (Muad’dib)
Constitution Party: 2 seats (Leader: TJ in Oregon)
Libertarian Party: 1 seat (lfromnj)

Other Nonaligned: 2 seats (Major Figures: Cath)

Team Joe Coalition (35 seats):
Democratic Party: 20 seats (Leader: Storr)
Liberal Independents: 4 seats (Leader: Weatherboy)
Other Left-Leaning: 4 seats (Leader: MB)
Socialist Workers’ Party: 4 seats (Leader: urutzizu)
Green Party: 3 seats (Leader: gracile)


97 seats in the People's House (49 for majority)

FCA – Party Whip: LouisvilleThunder (42 seats):
Republican Party: 14
Conservative Independents: 19
Other Right-Leaning: 1
Constitution Party: 2
Libertarian Party: 6

Other Nonaligned: 5

TJC – Party Whip: Parrot (50 seats):
Democratic Party: 31
Liberal Independents: 5
Other Left-Leaning: 5
Socialist Workers’ Party: 6
Green Party: 3

The Senate is overwhelmingly dominated by a left-center majority, ranging from socialists like T'Chenka to blue dogs like bagel and andjey, due to the number of (mostly Democratic) posters who made a total of one recommendation. The People's House is much closer as a result of Atlasia-active right-wingers contributing a large number of recommendations per poster, particularly on Fantasy Elections-related posts, and the left escapes with a narrow majority. Partly as a consequence of this, the right-leaning opposition in the People's House is much less moderate than in the Senate, and in conjunction with the narrow margin would lead to a far more acrimonious and disorderly partisan atmosphere in the lower chamber.

[Joseph Cao]

I should probably do one of these again when I have the time.

As an aside, it's hilarious that I've appeared over half a dozen times by now. Really puts that post of mine from months ago about being addicted to smashing the recommendation button into perspective.