Party Development

[Brandon H]

For starters, we need to remove the 5 persons make a major party clause from the Constitution.

I wouldn't set a hard number like 10 for a limit. If atlasia ever gets to 200 people, there will be 20 parties, with two or three from each side of the spectrum being nearly identical. Further it would turn into a game of survivor when you have an 11th member showing interest.

If we are going to have more diverse parties, then we need more diverse political views of our members (meaning less straight party line real life Republicans and Democrats). When Atlasian parties were at their most competitive, we had 5 strong diverse parties along the entire political spectrum.

Question for people from countries that have a parliament: do parties that form a coalition together form the same coalition at lower levels (in our case regions) or only in the parliament?

[Brandon H]

So it varies greatly by country and such. Thank you for your replies.

So in Atlasia, we could conceivable at the national level have parties A and B in one coalition and C and D in another, while in a particular region A and C could be in one coalition while B and D are in another.

What if, there were no national parties and parties only existed in a region. It would be cheating, but it would give us more and smaller parties. Just a thought. Probably wouldn't work, but I could be wrong.
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If we are going to have more diverse parties, then we need more diverse political views of our members (meaning less straight party line real life Republicans and Democrats). When Atlasian parties were at their most competitive, we had 5 strong diverse parties along the entire political spectrum.

It's tough to find people willing to form some of the more radical parties. In fact, most of Atlasia is pretty moderate, with a few hard righties and leftists. I mean, I wouldn't mind a two-party esque system if the parties had a meaningful rivalry, but there is barely any real rivalry between the larger SDP and RPP, while the DA and JCP kinda hang out on the sidelines pulling a few strings. It's so easy to pull a few moderates over that any center-left agenda passes easily. How can we fix this, make it more competitive and broad ranging?

There was a time when any far left agenda was able to pass with little difficulty. But the only way to fix it to get more people, hopefully with less common political views than we currently have.