Bugoslavia has enough candidates selling temperament. I am selling arithmetic. Low tax, hard books, open borders, overbuilt infrastructure, and no tolerance for treasury melodrama. That is the platform. It does not improve when shouted.
Luxury pays because discipline pays first. If you want a republic run for builders, workers, and firms instead of for whichever ego most recently discovered a masthead, the choice is straightforward. Audit the candidates as if they were vendors. I expect to pass.
- Octavia Vane, The Brass Ledger