Party merging, We need to start doing it

Too many parties, not enough people. No one's even reached the three person minimum yet and we have nearly as many parties as people. We should look into merging.

On the subject, would either Zykes of Faustling be interested in incorporating the CFC into your party? (Sorry everyone else, but you're what the CFC is against.) The CFC agenda not all that broad and could be incorporated pretty easily. It's not an extremist libertarian message, just a moderate libertarian message calling for legal protections for citizens. This could definately be inforporated into the Future party and could work within the security alliance in the context of far reaching, but carefully regulated intelligence programs.

What do ya think?

Sure you can merge with the Future party. Basically your party is about listening to the people, giving them more rights, better protection etc? that can work with The future party, let me know what you'd like to see added to the ever growing list of questions and views

Unless the security alliance wants to take you on? I'm cool with whatever.

As I said in the royalty thread, I'm disbanding my party as well as my character (which is ironic since I think mine is the only party with more then one member ).

Feel free to delay the party merging (maybe not this particular one though) until the game begins. It could be fun doing it in-character.

ok then, sounds good. I also may be going to the SEC party though. I haven't decided yet.

I'm not so sure this is a good match actually, what with you reaching out to the Eugenics party...

I think the problem is the radicalism on the right. We have a choice between a nutjob eugenics program and a high-tax facist police state. I have no choice but to create a new party.

'Nutjob eugenics program'? Exqueeze me? I resent that! I am not a nutjob!

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I wish him luck getting enough party members to become eligible for election. I doubt that he will.

I figure once I get the 2nd one the 3rd one will be a lot easier since they know they'll be joining a party that will actually get running in the elections. If it doesn't work out I can always start a business and an activist group, run ads during the campaign and get more members for the next election.

May I make mention of the fact David that this is a fictional government, and we're meant to have fun. Therefore we create the parties that should probably exist in reality, given the way the world is going, but have no chance of truly surviving if they formed. That's the appeal of parties like the SEC and BB. What's so interesting about your party, of which most countries have some sort of equivalent?

Some of us have fun roleplaying something close to real life politics. There are a fair number of real life political sims that go on for a long time than die out.

As to your comments about should exist the closest thing to the SEC that's existed in real life is the German Nationalist Socialist party and we all know how that turned out. Big brother in a lot of ways resembles the USSR post-revolution again hardly a spectacular success. Anyone with a real understanding of the world and some life experience would realize parties such as the ones being proposed here should not exist and have been disasters every time they have been tried.

Also the fact that most countries in the world have a party resembling mine should tell you something about its appeal. It's also interesting because it gives one a chance to engage in debate on real world (and some non-real issues) from serious positions. Many political sims involving the real world have had a fair amount of success. In fact the failings of the most successful ones have been when they diverged too far from the real world to keep attracting new members.

I understand this is a fictional country in a fictional world, but that doesn't mean the game has to throw everything out the window to radicalism. I'm not sure how much experience with political RPG's everyone has but I think you're quickly going to find representing the interests of such extreme parties will result in completely impossible negotiations. Unless of course one party gets a majority which will result in everyone else feeling ignored because the positions are so far away from the beliefs/values of their characters.

I also firmly believed if this is entirely intended to be a fun spoof of ridiculous parties that should be indicated in the rules so you get people who want to play that game signing up rather than people who want a more usual political RPG.

Sorry, but I think I see contradiction there.

Ridiculous parties that never happen in real life, and yet you put examples of when they have happened?

Also, I know everyone's going to hate me for this, but if you put aside the mindless slaughter of millions, Hitler didn't do a bad job of running Germany. Hate me if you must, but thats what I think.

And the British governemtn today is so pathetically weak, if we proposed any party which refused to give one minority what they want, we'd be seen as extremists by comparison.

Haha David I think you are missing the point slightly...

~And our government, England, is almost totally biased towards the immigrants anyway

Lighten up .....