Maks's Law of Politics: A Review of the Rise of the Union of ReactionariesAugust, 4658Union Chairman Shults Maxim "Maks" Petrovich, posing for the cover of Здесь и сейчас (Here and Now)If you were to ask most people who supported the Soyuz Reaktsionerov (Union of Reactionaries) in the early election of July 4658, they would tell you that they wouldn't have seen themselves voting for a man such as Shults Maxim Petrovich for the Presidency of Trigunian Republic. A man with virtually no experience in the nation's politics, nor its military, nor even the private sector as a whole. You wouldn't be alone with that notion either, because Mr. Petrovich himself never saw himself running for such a position in his life not that long ago.
I never was really a, politically involved person in my life until recent. I never engaged in any activism on campus, never joined any clubs centered around any political leanings...honestly, I might've abstained from voting for who would be 5th grade Class President.
This line of banter was taken from a television interview of Shults Maxim Petrovich, commonly called and referred to as "Maks" by followers and critics alike, a few months before the protests that he rallied won its battle and new elections were held for the State Duma on July 1st. Supporters across the nation began debating and then voting on who would be inaugural party members of Soyuz Reaktsionerov. Maks's feelings for politics isn't outside of the norm for Trigunia, a nation who was nearing generation 2 of its "No political parties" doctrine as declared by the Vsetrigunianskiy Narodnyy Front (All-Trigunian People's Front). After several years of this new way of life for Trigunian politics, the VNF naturally eroded away for a nation with no political parties had no need for a one-party ruler.
As the ever worsening winters came and went for the nation, the politics of the land became just as cold and unbearable for some. As the senior members of the State Duma came and went, the world of Trigunian policy making seemed to have frozen over. Months would go by, and soon years, of little to no bills being put forward. The meetings of Duma members almost became a social event than anything else, and for a lot of citizens this compounded with specifically how much the State Duma was being paid to do nothing led to widespread frustration to total apathy of the way things became.
Enter to the story Mr. Petrovich, an early 30s philosopher and side hobby physicist. While trying to add a Master's in Education as well to settle into a life as a professor at a college, a public declaration that was broadcasted nationwide changed the course of his life and now Trigunian history. An open letter was written to and then published by most newspapers across the country about a claim from a "House of Alexei" about the intent of being the new rulers of the nation.
Good Day, Citizens of Trigunia.
Do you want a party that represents the true core and spirit of our nation? Do you want to be represented as a nation of hard working and always loyal citizens? Vote The House Of Alexei, a party that truly serves Trigunia.
This was the beginning lines of the attempt of forming a new political party, assumed to be by a family claiming to be a royal house with claims to the old throne. This made Maks, among many others, curious about the new House of Alexei. Maks however became less curious over time... and more obsessed. After doing more research, he learned more about this "house". About how their title of nobility was basically handed to them by a friend of the family who was in the Duma where any "political authority" could grant a title with little to no oversight. This followed other things that got under his skin more and more, including trying to make the vague term of "blasphemy" a full on criminal offense worthy of prison time and changing the capital city to Aleksandrovsk, a city they claimed was "named after them". Worse to Maks, they seemed to be gaining support. The following quote comes from a public town hall that Shults Petrovich attended via live broadcast.
Maks from his household, responding to questions from Vladimirsk College's "A Call to Reaction: a Town Hall with Shults Maxim Petrovich"I was just, reading all of these ever increasingly insane and outlandish positions and ideas and people were just eating it up. I couldn't, grasp it- It just made no sense. Then it hit me: people were eating it up because they were being fed something for once. The downside with the political party ban was being played out before us, Trigunians were starved for any type of ambition, of any form of change in their politics. The extremity of Trigunia's apolitical nature led to a lust, a desire, of an extreme political change. Even if it meant blindly crowning some fool Emperor despite having no real royal blood from any of the multiple houses that ruled prior. That's when my love for physics first became entangled with my newfound interest in politics. Normally, the laws of motion are pretty basic, we might not "learn" it instantly but we all get it very early. Objects in motion stay in motion, the same with inanimate objects staying still, every action has an equal or opposite reaction, so on and so on. However, in politics, inaction is an action. The act of doing nothing leads to things around that inaction happening directly in respond to the stimuli of no stimulus. This led me to state the thing that, well, pretty much changed my life when I called into Radio Trigunia to ramble on about this idea of a law in politics like laws in physics. That being, unlike in physics, in politics every inaction has an equal or opposite reaction.
This "ramble" quickly washed over the populace of Trigunia, and soon enough a man who once called himself "a career college student" went from venting on a public radio show about a family he never met to speaking in front of crowds of tens of thousands, revealing that for the first time in decades there will be an early election being held and that in that election, a political party would be on ballots nationally. That political party, one he founded a mere 2 years before this speech, is now the first leading political party for a generation of inactivity. And if his law is truly law and not just a theory, the state of Trigunian politics is going to be hyperactive.