Years of a totalitarian, at times milder, but still authoritarian regime have made the people of the Coalition look like docile sheep, unable to decide their own and the state's destiny. As effective as this type of government may seem, it brings with it a host of problems tied to both efficiency and popular loyalty to government: love instilled by fear cannot be taken for granted.
The transition to a different model is an extremely painful process that will take time. One cannot unscrew the screws tightened centuries ago and hope for societal stability overnight - change must happen gradually, at every level of society. The current power of the nomenclature should be gradually replaced by popular power, where everyone who contributes to the development of society and the state has weight in the political system and decision-making process.
In the realities of today's Coalition, the first stage must be the reduction of penalties for misbehaviour, greater attention to the education of citizens and the training of soldiers, the development of medicine and the creation of an atmosphere of calm and trust in society. People should not fear the government and run away at every opportunity, just as we, the government, should not send the Commissars after them to deal with a dissident. On the contrary, people should feel a sense of security from the troops and the government, a sense of security, and in this way they can encourage others to join us, the Coalition.
Only by taking this path will we ensure the Coalition's survival and development instead of the current stagnation and decay. I hope I can get the support of an enlightened nomenclature in this difficult task of correcting the mistakes of the past to build a better future.
Coalition is built on the figures of the former days and memory of greater past: this makes any future effort of improving the political model and society futile, as it can never be "as glorious as it was in the past". Lack of any modern figures to follow is but another proof of my concerns to be truth: use of Lenin, a political figure from Old Earth we know a very little except that he died over a millennia ago and was a founding person to a state that later inspired Coalition of Sol to be formed is all we know. We have many people we could introduce instead, but yet we use this atavism and image of glorious Coalition of the past while, if we think carefully, modern Coalition is much more advanced.
Technological advances don't yet put us in line with the Sirius Houses, which are interstellar empires the Sun Coalition could never dream of, but they do give us a reason to develop our own technology to eventually match the other players in the political arena.
As stated many times before, we can't survive a direct confrontation with any of them, so we're hiding in the clouds on planets where normal people would never settle. Perhaps this is not a strategic decision, but just marginalism? If we did not declare ourselves the 'heirs of the Coalition of Sol', we might well have taken a place on the edge of known space and built our dream there, gradually expanding, allowing others to voluntarily become part of our state.
Some mistakes of the past cannot be undone, but it is certainly not worth dwelling on the past, otherwise the future cannot be built. We need to get busy developing a better Coalition here and now. That's what we will do.
