I see that you too are a fan of President Richter. You can help them become President in one of the endings of this book, too. Better gift than flowers and chocolate for sure.
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I did create a Guide that lets you get the best midterm result without having to make a very specific and sleazy moral compromise or use any money, let me see if I can go find that and dig it up again. I’m not too worried about not having money for the second game because if you play your cards right, you can end the first with the landslide and that gives you massive, massive margin of error
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Ya, but gotta get that second term so America has to deal with the ritcher for 16 years, not just 12!
Fair, although the characters I tend to make tend not have large financial resources, which I think are necessary to arrange the land slide! But that might just be my preference and I should reconcile myself to another term of close run wins!
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You can get the best possible result with just $25 million if you’re willing to play dirty, $35 million if you don’t want to play dirty although it still means making a certain tough choice before the convention, and $50 million guarantees it.
As for the 16 year Richter thing, history isn’t really on your side, although of course there’s no reason you can’t defy it. The same party being elected three times over is already kind of a rarity in modern politics, four times over, that hasn’t happened since Roosevelt. At a certain point, fatigue is going to sit in. None of this will actually be covered by the game beyond what happens after your second term and the election there, but it’s just one of those things
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Despite the differences between american and parliamentari systems. If someone or more accurate a whole faction holds power for so long. It’s hard to get rid of them too. They had enough time to do what they do, they know well, how to manipulate people, even using ads to practically brainwash people, what to say once a reelection happens, how to buy voters. And they had enough time to damage other factions, as it is other factions are hardly strong enough to stand against them. And it’s not just one person it’s a whole faction who I believe became corrupt (the prime minister is more or less just a face for people like me to hate).
Anyway I wonder: Did impeachment ever work for US presidents, or was it even necessary? So far I know of only two instances when a presidents rulership ended early, through assassination (Kennedy) and resignment (Nixon).
As for modern persidents: despite what people thought of their regime they all had their full time and people could still hope for after once their 4 or 8 year is over even if they didn’t agree with the current president or leading party. So it seems american system works better than whatever goes on here.
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We’ve had a total of three presidents who’ve actually gotten impeached, one of them twice, but all of them failed in the Senate trial. Another, Nixon, resigned under the threat of impeachment, then we’ve had four died in office of natural causes and four shot
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Thank you for enlightening me. Obviously as a non-american it would have taken me more time to research all of this. I admit Kennedy and Nixon are the most famous and obvious about whom even non-americans would know about.
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Absolutely. Just assuming two terms for Ritcher because they make it two terms after us in the epilogue to this game and three for one party is already very unlikely. Maybe they will also manage another 8 years!
To go into way to much detail on this, there wasn’t an official prohibition on a third term for most of American history, but the first president George Washington established a precedent of only going for 8 years in office. So no president successfully ran for a third term until Franklin Roosevelt (FDR). He was president for the great depression and world war 2 and was very popular, being elected to four terms. He died during his fourth term and after that the Constitution was amended to establish the 8 year limit. Trump is only the second president to serve non-consecutive terms as well.
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Ideally you want something like the Reagan/Bush years. Bush almost managed to win four straight for the GOP, but the economy tanked, he took the blame, voters were tired, and Clinton was cool. At a certain point, overall voter fatigue, increasing competence from the opposition party, and just plain old shit Luck is going to become more and more of a factor
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I have another question now more about the game: I tend to play as a democrat and in one part of the game it brings up a suggestion for a new law which I’m supposed to either sign or veto (I can’t change parts of it). It’s a democratic idea about the equality of women to men tho I think they took it too far so I vetoed the thing. I agree that the wage gap is a horrible thing, but I don’t think we should force a quota on employers of how many women they should employ, that should still be up to people’s capabalities which jobs they get accepted for.
What I’m curious about is if you play as a republican what over the board/other side of the horse/extreme law suggestion is it which gets suggested to you?
I don’t think I’ll ever play a republican, but I’m still curious, hence why I’m asking someone who played as a republican.
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This game is incredible and I really wish it was on Steam.
The author deserves a lot of praise for the research, details, and love put into every bit of this thing.
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If I remember correctly, it was something about cell research. Highly dangerous if my memory serves me well
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Sorry, but what does that mean? I’m confused.
Genetic diseases that could be removed via altering or destroying harmful cells in the patient’s DNA (I think?)
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Sounds more complicated than womens rights on the democrats part. Tbh I wasn’t expecting this. I expected something more on the lines of national security or something more conservative. While healthcare I assumed was more on the lines of a Democratic or Centrist movement.
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It’s an act that would ban the use of embryonic stem cells in research. Not exactly genetic research (although it is affected). Embryonic stem cells, or rather, how they are obtained, is a rather controversial issue that Republicans feel strongly about.
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A total federal ban on embryonic stem cell research. it’s one of the tenants of the pro-life movement, although abortion is considered more of the priority, this isn’t all that far behind
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It’s still not as clear to me as the Democratic issue in this game (which was unpopular even by some in game democrats)=doing something about wage gap, good. Forcing a quota of employing women, not good. The other side isn’t so clear. Can you explain it to me? I’d think developments in medical researches is good. Despite which side starts it. How can it become bad?
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This goes is into the whole fetal personhood thing. If you’re someone who opposes abortion on moral grounds, you’re going to oppose the use of embryos for scientific research, because you sincerely believe those embryos are human. Translation, the pro-life movement, or at least some segment of it, view embryonic stem cell research as Experimenting on people. There’s a lot more that goes into it and it’s more complicated than I’m framing it, but that’s the idea.
I Will give you the fact that this is a more esoteric position that doesn’t come up anywhere near as often as some other stuff does
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One thing I wonder about this story is, how can we manage American foreign policy? Is it possible to start a small-scale or large-scale war? Can new territories be acquired? Or could the Monroe Doctrine even be applied to overthrow antagonistic governments like Venezuela, Cuba, or Nicaragua?
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