Is there any use for Political Party affiliation in eRepublik?
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I would say yes. There is use in joining a political party. Political backing of likeminded individuals will help accelerate your respect within eRepublik.
Some differ on how one is to have their allegiance.
Allegiance to eHumanity comes chiefly for me. Then, ideology and therefore party affiliation.
Others choose the nation first. Which is a perfectly acceptable opinion.
Many individuals hold themselves firstly as well.
There are benefits joining different political parties as different parties offer different things. More advocate community (such as the ILP) and others power (LAB) and others independence (IV). But it often a mixture of many things.
Political parties are ever morphing and should be representative of the people and not be a perch of a few old farts ruling over a slice of the population.
Some parties (at least the good ones) offer a say in CP nomination which allows for a say in who the CP will be. This is a good reason to be in a political party if one is looking to nominate someone.
Political Parties can also be corrupt, autocratic, plutocratic and vile institutions that should be steadily avoided.
In my opinion, the least corrupt institution is the ILP. This may be bias since that is my party. However, the ILP Leadership is very responsive and all mishaps (and there's like three of them ever) were done by outside members. So the ILP's only issue is sometimes they love too much and therefore trust too much. But loving and trusting at all is an issue for many of Ireland's political parties, so you have to pick your poison.
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Post by Anthony Colby on May 30, 2013 20:04:36 GMT
But labels of Left, Right and Center do not necessarily apply do they.
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Post by Sir Adriano Prette on Jun 7, 2013 22:35:30 GMT
In erepublik you no longer have the normal orientation of left, right and center because there is very little economic and politics left in the game. Most parties now no longer have any major beliefs and are more of a social club with friends joining together.
The main function of political parties is congress elections. From those mechanics you have a meta-game that can potentially arise as a result of the power congress has.
In a small country like eIreland Cp elections at their base are an independent affair, but I think it's fair to say that in our current scene parties have a large effect on it. In some ways I think that parties are now formed from the outside in - the interests and social groups that define them are what lead to their creation in the first place, and what may drive their motives.
One thing I'm certain of though is that Left/Right are a defunct way of looking a politics. The real issues in eIreland are:
Mechanics/Real Life Fanaticism Alliance/Alliance Two Clickers/Macro/OldFgs Friends/Ideologies/Meritocracy or Mechinism etc. etc.
The issues have to be looked at for face value, and largely that is the case because grander themes of Left/Right aren't actually embraced in policy by anyone. A lot of the questions where that may be in that wheelhouse of Left/Right, the current mechanics make it too clear what the best method is.
Minimum Wage/Communes/Taxes - are all either a question of common sense rather than ideology. Democracy - dictated by mechanics
Post by Arjay Phoenician III on Jun 13, 2013 6:13:27 GMT
I wrote this on the last debate thread, but party affiliation would mean something only if the party had an obvious agenda. Most parties try to be all-things to all-people, at least the ones that compete to be in and stay in the top five of a given country. It's just a country's internal political competition, not the push-pull of democracy.
Single-issue parties would be the only way to differentiate them, and were a country to have that happen, one would be able to determine where a person stood in general based on the party he was part of. If someone joined a party whose only agenda was to, for example, join TWO, then you would know what that person's priorities were.
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