let's talk politics (crystal)

[rathercommon]

FORM: sending crystal
SENDER: Kitty Jones
RECIPIENT: Ev'rybody
WHAT: Politics!
WHEN: Backdated a touch
WHERE: Everywhere
NOTES: Shouting and threadjacking highly encouraged

So -

[ Kitty sounds, in her usual mode, sensible and direct. ]

I've been listening, and I've not heard much chatting about the election of the Divine over the crystals, which makes me suspect that everyone's doing it privately. But it seems to me that this is the sort of thing which we ought to be talking about as honestly as possible.

So - who's the best candidate? In your opinions. And what can we do to make sure the dreadful ones don't win?

Comments

[chainlightning]

Rifters, yes. Otherwise... no, not 'plenty'. Not at all.

All my life, most of other peoples opinions have been that my people are savages and that my brethren who live in the cities are beneath them. They have been that mages are monsters to place in cages.

If they don't believe these things, they should show that by supporting someone who doesn't believe these things. And Thedas is not there because its leadership is not there.

[rathercommon]

Well...I guess - for what it's worth, I don't care about her opinions on rifters, myself. For me, it is that she's decent to people like yours. And I've talked to a few people now - who aren't rifters or elves or mages - who like her, too.

[chainlightning]

[ Quietly: ] It's worth quite a bit.

[rathercommon]

[ That sincerity makes Kitty brighten a bit. ]

Well, I do mean it. The way that your people have been treated - it's absolutely ghastly. If there's ever anything I can do, or ways that I can fight for you, I will. Any time and anywhere.

[chainlightning]

It won't make you popular. But it's the right thing to do.

[rathercommon]

Anyone willing to abandon others for the sake of popularity deserves to - to have all of their teeth and hair fall out. Never mind those who abandon the people who are beaten down and most in need of allies.

[chainlightning]

It's easier if they don't think of us as people. We're not human, so we're less. We're not Andrastian, so we're less. We're mages, we might as well be demons.