Deep Thought for Today

[Miestră Schivă, UrN]

The goal of all politics in Talossa must be to find a compromise vision of Talossa upon which the vast supermajority of Talossans can live with. Since consensus is impossible, the way to do this is through the majoritarian system of democracy, with strong protections for the minority and safeguards for the future of our ImagiNation as a whole.

King Robert I practiced the politics of driving political minorities out or forcing them to "surrender" totally. This is not only a base and unworthy goal, it's an unrealistic one - unless you want to live in a North Korea or Stalin's Russia situation, where hunting out "traitors" is what public life is all about.

In Talossan politics, we fight, and we fight with honour, until we find the limits of that precise compromise vision, which will of course shift over time. Anyone who wants to fight a war of annihilation or "unconditional surrender", or delegitimize politics in favour of a permanent status quo ante, is cordially invited to get lost.