Re:Why the past 10 years of American life have been uniquely...
by mFixman on Wednesday April 13, 2022 @10:07AM
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You just described UKIP, the mostly-single-issue party that directly led to Brexit and mostly disintegrated afterwards.
Re:Why the past 10 years of American life have been uniquely...
by karmelapple on Friday April 15, 2022 @12:31AM
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Interesting! I didn't realize the group that started this was a political party which largely went away. But this approach was mostly adopted by the mainstream Tory party in the UK, correct?
Imagine a political party created to achieve one focused accomplishment, and then literally dissolved once it's been achieved.
The more bipartisan support the accomplishment has, the better. Say a political party whose primary focus is to get term limits for members of the US Congress, a topic with broad bipartisan support [1].
People of all political persuasions could join from across the country. The people in this party might differ in major ways, but they agree strongly on this one topic.
Maybe they sign a legal contract to bind them to both vote in favor of term limits if they're elected, and to elect to bring that up to a vote on the floor of US Congress until it's passed. Some consequence would have to exist I suppose. But with that would come the small, focused party's endorsement, and resources from its supporters.
Does such a thing exist? Has it ever?
[1] https://mclaughlinonline.com/2018/02/08/ma-poll-voters-overw...