Centrists Assemble!

[afleitch]

Afleitch, my apologies for turning your thread into a discussion on the new partisan environment. That wasn't my intention.

That's cool But thank you for taking the time to point that out that it had went off in another direction; few posters do.

[Junkie]

Well if it happens, count me in.

[Napoleon]

I strongly encourage persons interested to consider joining the newly founded Liberal Party, which synchronizes nicely with this thread's proposal.

[Marokai Backbeat]

Verin will probably agree: I'd caution the Liberals about becoming too much of a big-tent party without much of a clear ideology. Those parties don't tend to last long. That can sort of work in a two-party system roughly divided between left and right like the JCP-RPP (or the Democrats and Republicans in real life), but in a multi-party system? That kind of thing doesn't have the best track record.

It'd be fun if I could divide the parties to my liking.

I'd have a social democratic party, a center-left liberal party, a center-right party like Afleitch is proposing here, a social conservative party, and maybe a libertarian party as well.

I'm incredibly worried about this exact thing. I would be disappointed to see the Liberal Party basically start sucking up everyone in sight that isn't on any hard ideological edge, and for that matter, I'd be disappointed to see some behemoth centrist party return to dominance NLC-style. That wouldn't be any more fun than the current model.

[bgwah]

Verin will probably agree: I'd caution the Liberals about becoming too much of a big-tent party without much of a clear ideology. Those parties don't tend to last long. That can sort of work in a two-party system roughly divided between left and right like the JCP-RPP (or the Democrats and Republicans in real life), but in a multi-party system? That kind of thing doesn't have the best track record.

It'd be fun if I could divide the parties to my liking.

I'd have a social democratic party, a center-left liberal party, a center-right party like Afleitch is proposing here, a social conservative party, and maybe a libertarian party as well.

I'm incredibly worried about this exact thing. I would be disappointed to see the Liberal Party basically start sucking up everyone in sight that isn't on any hard ideological edge, and for that matter, I'd be disappointed to see some behemoth centrist party return to dominance NLC-style. That wouldn't be any more fun than the current model.

If it did happen though, it probably wouldn't last terribly long.

Obviously what set the JCP and RPP apart more than the fact that they became a duopoly is their longevity.

[ilikeverin]

Verin will probably agree: I'd caution the Liberals about becoming too much of a big-tent party without much of a clear ideology. Those parties don't tend to last long.

Still, they're of critical importance; as a member of the original UAC, we did as much to subvert the initial two-party system as anything else in Atlasia.  And then imploded spectacularly, only to be replaced by the chaos we came to know and love

[bgwah]

Verin will probably agree: I'd caution the Liberals about becoming too much of a big-tent party without much of a clear ideology. Those parties don't tend to last long.

Still, they're of critical importance; as a member of the original UAC, we did as much to subvert the initial two-party system as anything else in Atlasia.  And then imploded spectacularly, only to be replaced by the chaos we came to know and love

maybe, but if we're already getting rid of the current duopoly...