Democracy Day Discussion 2024

[Simone]

This year, again with the change to Manumission Day change, I am inviting past delegates to give their thoughts ahead of Democracy Day. 2024 is particularly important as it marks 10 years since the change in the day from Constitution Day to Democracy Day.

I have also built an index of Democracy Day celebrations from years past below.

 

[Simone]

2023 (Gorundu)
- speech: https://forum.thenorthpacific.org/topic/9197268/

2022 (Ghost)
- speech: https://forum.thenorthpacific.org/topic/9196053/

2021 (Prydania as MoCult)
- speech: https://forum.thenorthpacific.org/topic/9194847/
- event: https://forum.thenorthpacific.org/topic/9194849/

2020 (Syrixia as MoCult)
- speech: https://forum.thenorthpacific.org/topic/9192565/

2018 (COE)
- pitch for the printed constitution: https://forum.thenorthpacific.org/topic/9175149/

2017 (SillyString)
- speech: https://forum.thenorthpacific.org/topic/9066158/

Original debate from 2014
- debate: https://forum.thenorthpacific.org/topic/7293740/
- vote: https://forum.thenorthpacific.org/topic/7306401/

Please let me know if you find additional threads from that era.

 

[Prydania]

I consider it an honour that I was Delegate during a Democracy Day celebration. What a one it was too, in the midst of the pandemic.

But be it as Delegate or Minister of Culture, I do love the celebration. I remember my first go as Minister of Culture doing Democracy Day. We sent out lamented maps of the Eras RP setting!
I still have mine, outdated as it is

Of course I value the democratic principals of this region. It's why it's a bastion of stability. We have a culture that transcends any one cult of personality, and makes us a true community. Like all communities we maybe don't always see eye to eye, but we value each other. We value the work we all do. We value the dedication we all show. And newcomers realize that they can be part of this community too because we truly don't revolve around one, or even a group, of players.

TNP is a special place. Not just in NS, but online, period. It's a place where not just a community, but multiples of them, nesting inside of each other, can grow and thrive.

Thank you TNP. For being... you.

 

[St George]

I was asked to say a few words.

I have nothing nice nor good to say about the direction TNP is heading, nor in the standard of candidate for high office it is currently generating, nor in the overall health of our democracy.

So I will refrain from speaking.

 

[Hulldom]

I’ve been asked to say a few words and I guess I ought to, even as TNP’s most infamous recent Delegate.

What the last few years has shown is that the North Pacific has a crisis of identity—not quite really having a sense of itself in the way the others do beyond a way of doing things, but in some sense that is beautiful. The “anyone can do it” ethos, the ability for just about anyone to rise high, they’re all the things that make this region great. Of course, it may be hypocritical for a person leading a region that’s only nominally democratic to call democracy great. But in TNP’s case, it’s objectively true that democracy has been great because it has enabled some of the most talented players to ever play this game to be forces for productivity, forces for good, and forces for the very best ideals on this site.

I hope TNP figures out soon what it is that makes it TNP divorced from simply government, but what a grand ideal it is, and how great it’s been for one of the greatest regions on NationStates.