Lockesdonkey
Liberal Jihadist
Hello and welcome to the official thread of the Liberal Democratic Party of Yasutan, or LDP. We hope you find everything quite alright.
You may have seen me around before: While I am new, I am a citizen in good standing, founder of the Bar Association and (not self-nominated!) candidate for Judge Advocate.
Please note: This has nothing to do with my run for Judge Advocate, and while I would welcome your vote for that, you shouldn't see membership in the LDP as an endorsement of me for that office. In retrospect, I half-wish I hadn't accepted the nomination for Judge Advocate at all, but now I've reached the point of no return.
What is the LDP?
The LDP is a loose organization of Demogame citizens who, as in the wise words of whoever wrote the Epistle to the Hebrews, Desiderantes meliorem patriam: desire a better country. To this end we advocate reason, caution, and tolerance in all decisions and towards all people.
What does the LDP stand for?
Liberal Democratic Party of course!
In all seriousness, though, the LDP is mostly about being careful and rational about our decisions. As such, the LDP:
With that, I thank you, and post this membership list:
Membership:
Lockesdonkey (founder)
Joe Harker
Hyronymus
CivGeneral
You may have seen me around before: While I am new, I am a citizen in good standing, founder of the Bar Association and (not self-nominated!) candidate for Judge Advocate.
Please note: This has nothing to do with my run for Judge Advocate, and while I would welcome your vote for that, you shouldn't see membership in the LDP as an endorsement of me for that office. In retrospect, I half-wish I hadn't accepted the nomination for Judge Advocate at all, but now I've reached the point of no return.
What is the LDP?
The LDP is a loose organization of Demogame citizens who, as in the wise words of whoever wrote the Epistle to the Hebrews, Desiderantes meliorem patriam: desire a better country. To this end we advocate reason, caution, and tolerance in all decisions and towards all people.
What does the LDP stand for?
Liberal Democratic Party of course!
In all seriousness, though, the LDP is mostly about being careful and rational about our decisions. As such, the LDP:
- Is suspicious of aggressive war. We don't like declaring war, and will only advocate doing so when necessary for national survival or well-being (a sick country is worse than a dead one.)
- Is in favor of freer civics.
- We firmly and stridently oppose Police State, and generally frown upon Hereditary Rule. We have no preference between Representation and Universal Suffrage.
- We also prefer Free Speech to all the other civics in that category, though we do not oppose the others, and may indeed support less-free civics if circumstances demand it.
- We also prefer Emancipation over all others; between the others, we will go as game strategy demands.
- The LDP is in favor of Free Market. We are vehemently opposed to Mercantilism; we view the other two useful Economic civics with skepticism, but not intolerance.
- Free religion over Pacifism; Pacifism over Organized Religion (unless we are going for a Space Race win or some such); everything over Theocracy.
- Is always willing to reconsider.
- Has membership free and open to all.
- Will not endorse a candidate without the unanimous consent of party members. If even that is forbidden, then we will not endorse anybody, and request that a moderator remove this bullet point.
- Will try to keep its members informed and ready.
- Will not try to act like the CPSU, the SPD, the Republicans, the Democrats, or even Romano Prodi's Union. We're that loose.
With that, I thank you, and post this membership list:
Membership:
Lockesdonkey (founder)
Joe Harker
Hyronymus
CivGeneral
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