New Deal Policy incorrectly reporting as obsolete

[Izz]

I'm using democracy and whenever I try to switch the New Deal policy in it allows me to enter it into the slot and confirm the selection but then immediately removes it and tells me I have a slot to fill because of an obsolete civic. This then stops me ending the turn or replacing it because my civics are locked due to having just tried to use New Deal.

If it helps I switched from democracy to communism for a war and then back again after the war. I also have a penalty to relations with my previous ally who is now a synthetic democracy due to different government.

Is the game bugged? I should be able to use New Deal now that I am using democracy

[leandrombraz]

It seems like a bug. Send the save to their support:
https://support.2k.com/hc/en-us

or post it on Civfanatics:
https://forums.civfanatics.com/forums/civ6-bug-reports.553/

[Lemurian1972]

My understanding was you're not supposed to be able to jump back and forth between Ideology era governments without your people getting upset but that's not what this is. It's probably a bug since those govt specific policies do normally obsolete when you change. I'd just move on to 4th tier govt.

[leandrombraz]

You go into anarchy if you go back to a previously adopted government:
https://civilization.fandom.com/wiki/Anarchy_(Civ6)

Policies cannot be slotted in this period, but OP should be able to pass turn, his government would just stop working for a few turns.

OP, try to force the end of the turn (shift+enter). Keep doing that into the anarchy period ends. How long the anarchy last should be marked somewhere, idk how it works. If anarchy is what is causing this issue, it should go back to normal once it ends.

[Dray Prescot]

It sounds like switching to another Government (Communism), permanently obsoleted New Deal, or the Civ 6 does not uncheck the obsoletism of New Deal when you went back to Democracy.

If New Deal is that important to you, you may have to go back to a saved game before switching to Communism, and then stay in Democracy and forget Communism. (I always play Democracy myself when I am this stage in Civics, and never switch away from it.)

A different choice would be to go back farther in your saved games and choose Communism first before Democracy, then do not switch to Democracy until your War is over, or you no longer need Communism to fight that enemy (or any other enemies).

When/IF you get Democracy the 2nd time, do not choose New Deal as a Policy immediately. Instead try waiting until the next time you get a new Civic (there are often old Civics that you bypassed that you can do cheaply and quickly), and then try to change your Policies to include New Deal. Maybe by then the flag on New Deal will have reset properly.

Your last choice, is wait and move on to a higher level government as soon as possible and forget New Deal as a Policy choice for you.