Second Communist Exodus

The 2nd Communist Exodus occurred after the February Federal Election. This election resulted in Lamport's (R) victory over Sparkle (CP), MichiganLefty (PP) and NotAName (PP, no nomination). However, this election nearly lead to a Republican/Populist majority in the house. There was use of tailcoat modifiers for the first time ever, which the communists denounced as an attempt to rig the election against them. This lead to them leaving en masse.

With them, many other prominent, non-communist members left. The most notable example of this is was Head Mod Cody, who revealed that he had been using an alt, Bitwise. Other members that left included NotAName and EhManana.

It lead to about a 40% less messages, or more, and about 30% less active members. On the bright side, it meant there were much less shitshows. But still a lot.

Aftermath

Following the exodus, MaTh became Head Mod, and CoolDad and DisguisedJet719 became mods. This meant five out of six senate seats were up for election in the following Specials.

The Progressive Party was immediately disbanded, and in its place the Labor party was formed, in an attempt to unite the left, and the few former communists that remained in the server, and generally just to reignite the left.

The left-wing of the server suffered badly in the next elections. The communists had made up a significant portion of the left, and in the following state elections all governors and state legislatures became Republican. The Republicans managed to gain all five seats of the Dixie Assembly, as well as a supermajorty in the house. However, Labor managed to hold the Senate, with all three of codegreen, d.a.barchipelago and Trash winning their races.

The left also suffered badly in the April Federal Elections, when they lost the Senate, as Trash didn't stand for re-election, and Mega left the politics on the final night of campaigning.

Return to two parties

The exodus brought a return to two parties. Before there had been four main parties, the Republicans, the Progressives, the Communists and the American party. Following there was only the Republicans and the Labor Party. This two party system was heavily dominated by the GOP in the 2019 March State Elections and the April Federals, but became more even by the June State elections.

Members Union

The Members union was founded by Lohengramm in order to better communicate disagreements between mods and members, and communicate more clearly to mods the wishes of members.