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Re:Cheran: The town that threw out police, politicians and g... by int_19h on Wednesday April 22, 2020 @01:13AM (#22942443)
It doesn't work, because parties offer an advantage, and you can't truly ban them without banning freedom of association. At best, you can ban overt expression of affiliation, so all candidates are nominally independent - but it'll still be obvious who's who.
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Re:Cheran: The town that threw out police, politicians and g... by forgingahead on Wednesday April 22, 2020 @06:17AM (#22944042)
The idea is not to ban any alliances of any sort (which is what happens when independents team up) but rather to strongly avoid groupthink and the not-people-beneficial-but-default actions that a stronger bloc always takes.
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Re:Cheran: The town that threw out police, politicians and g... by int_19h on Wednesday April 22, 2020 @01:46PM (#22948198)
When independents team up for long enough, because they have enough in common, you get a party as well, with all the attendant features. Groupthink doesn't stem from formal affiliation - after all, most people in US who fall into it are not formally members of either party.
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