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Political Parties

The United States Constitution never formally addressed the issue of political parties, primarily because the Founding Fathers opposed them; nonetheless, parties have been a fundamental part of American politics since shortly after George Washington's presidency.

In partisan elections, candidates are nominated by a political party or seek public office as an independent. Each state has significant discretion in deciding how candidates are nominated, and thus eligible to appear on the election ballot. Typically, major party candidates are formally chosen in a party primary or convention, whereas candidates from minor parties and Independent candidates are required to complete a petitioning process.

The current (informal) four-party system in the United States is made up of the Liberty Party, Constitution Party, Unity Party, and the Green Party.

Liberty Party (L)

The Liberty Party advocates the greatest possible economic liberty and the least possible government regulation of social life (described as "small government"), mirroring laissez-faire classical liberalism, but harnesses this to a belief in a more socially liberal philosophy emphasizing liberty, free expression, freedom of choice, and free-market capitalism.

The Liberty Party represents the more centric party of the US, finding common ground with both the Unity Party and the Constitution Party. The growing trends from the Green Party has made the Liberty Party as a main adversary. The current President, Vincent Horne, is a Liberty Party member.

Unity Party (U)

The Unity Party represents the US’s liberal philosophy and advocates. Unity’s philosophy of modern American liberalism blends civil liberty and social equality with support for a mixed capitalist economy. One of the main focus for Unity is workers’ rights, a belief that the economy should work for everyone, health care is a right, and immigration reform.

Being the liberal wing of politics, the Unity Party tend to clash, policy-wise, with the Constitution Party.

Constitution Party (C)

The Constitution Party is a political party in the United States that promotes a religious conservative view of the principles and intents of the United States Constitution. Considered the Right-wing, they often clash, policy-wise, with the Unity Party. Recently, due to changes in the Green Party, many Constitution policies have been getting growing support by the Greens, while some in the Constitution Party are beginning to take caution in the growing radicalism of the Green Party.

Green Party (G)

No other political party has such a radical change in recent history than the Green Party. The Green Party started out as a splinter group of the Unity Party to focus on clean energy agendas as well as other social-economic issues. Recently, the Green Party has transformed into a “Earth First” and “Homo sapien First” type of political party. Many of the new members of the Green Party have supported a more authoritarian approach to policies and vision, and have supported bills such as the Mutant Registration Act (MRA) and the Superhuman Registration Act (SRA). The new direction of the Green Party has attracted new members like Simon Trask (leader of the fanatic anti-mutant movement called Humanity's Last Stand), Senator Ellen Nadeer (secret leader of the Watchdogs, an anti-non-human hate group), and Cameron Hodge (leader of The Right, an anti-mutant hate group). This higher profile, and well connected members, have helped grow the new Green Party’s power and popularity. The change in the Green Party started with Massachusetts Senator Robert Kelly and his MRA.

The current Green Party has stated that Earth is for humanity (Homo sapiens) and beings from another planet, another dimension, people with mutations (Mutants or Inhuman), or people with genetic abnormalities are not welcome and either need to leave the United States (or Earth) or be subject to authoritarian-like control or detainment. The Green Party still has heavy interest and policy dealing with current Climate Crisis issues, as well as more liberal-centric social policies. Many political analyst say that the Green Party is quickly approaching a Statism style party, given their belief that non-humans should be striped of their rights.

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Thoughts for character creation...

I plan on this being a street-level game. Characters shouldn't have anything above an IN. Column shifts above IN are fine (ie IN Fighting + Talents), but no power, attribute, or resources above IN.

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You can choose / model your stuff using this array of stats: IN, RM, RM, EX, EX, EX, TY, TY, and everything else GD (as many as needed). Start with three powers and two talents.

I will reward cool concepts with some bonus ranks, talents, etc as feels appropriate.

• Empathy: GD (8)
• Telekinesis: RM (26)
• Probability Manipulation: (Good Luck, self)