Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Planning A Party? Where is my Invite?
If one of the major parties were to fall, it would present a very interesting set of opportunities for a new parties to rise. for one thing the remaining party would become the center, leaving it open to re-definition by the new party. we define our parties primarily in relation to each other, so some swift political maneuvering would allow the new party to knock the old one around in how it defines itself. Another option is to create a new party with similar stances on some of the issues as the remaining party. Doing this would cause the old issue set that the two previous parties used to distinguish eachother, and raise new topics to re-define the parties, thus forcing political progress, and a mashup of the political scene. This would probably be most easily done by creating a party based on the "moderate" stance before the fall o the previous party. this would give rise to let representatives who are more moderate from the remaining party to jump ship. if the new party seems to rise and do well in your area, the wise politician would jump ship in order to stay in office. as far as who i would choose for my leadership, it would depend on the party that fell. In a way it may be easier to choose new leaders who can establish themselves as "moderates" rather than have to contend with a long history, and peoples preconcieved notions about the candidates. the voting blocs and electorate would be the ones supporting the moderates. I call this whole process "stealing the middle" it allows the rising party to appeal the the previous extreme without having to follow the old failed agenda. a plan like this would expect high electoral success and the capacity to knock the old party around and cause it to reshape. this could leave the doors to the white house open very rapidly.
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"Stealing the middle" is a great concept, but i believe that that is the stance of the current Democratic party.
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ReplyDeletewhat do you mean more? im usually being told that i write too much
ReplyDeleteWhy do you believe that the remaining party would be the center? If the Republican party failed, do you not feel it was because they were outdone by a party that was not moderate? It would be hard to "steal the middle" with only one political party left. If a new party came about, it would have to define itself on one side of the political spectrum. Stealing the middle could work for a party if there were already two parties sitting on opposite sides of the political spectrum. There are tens of millions of registered Republicans (and even more registered Democrats) who would need a party to go to, and I for one would not join a moderate party if that is what I was left with.
ReplyDeleteyou don't think that a new party could push the remaining party around by shifting how it defines itself?
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