(02-09-2017, 07:35 PM)Escade Wrote: Now you attack the one way I see people have to protect themselves from the bullies with their little circle of friends, who like any entourage, supports the negative and destructive behavior. 

Aiight — I'm sorry, but this is a step too far.

I'm willing to discuss parties — as DM has pointed out — but if we're falling back on the "this protects us from bullies" we're doing something wrong. If that's the only thing that stands in the way of "bullies" then our level of discourse is already problematic and parties aren't going to fix that.

I also feel that DM — and he can correct me if I'm wrong — didn't *want* to start a party, but now that this is the structure of the region, people feel the need to divvy themselves up. As I have historically not been keen on, but can see where the region is going.

Toward what Glen was saying — I'm not sure a quid pro quo corruption didn't happen here because despite all of the protests otherwise, the end result of the actions would've been pretty clear.

If we were inclined to prevent this from happening, what if we put a sunset provision on a law in that once we have multiple viable parties, the law would be instantly nulled?