Talk:Political party
Instead of engaging in an edit war over terminology, why don't we argue bitterly over it like the gentlemen our parents raised us to be?
Radioactive Misanthrope 15:51, 6 September 2008 (EDT)
- Hehe, "references and notes" is kind of our standard header for the references/ tag. It's just a foolish consistency, obviously not all instances have both. But we do have a tendency to add "notes" with various levels of snark as well as more normal "references". If you want we could change the whole site over to "footnotes"... ħuman
19:34, 6 September 2008 (EDT)
[edit] Labour Party
The UK Labour Party is "Classically liberal"? Says who? Lily Inspirate me. 08:15, 6 May 2010 (UTC)
[edit] Fixing political positions
Honestly, it would be better if parties were compared issue-by issue, but for now all parties should be ranked on a two-dimensional scale, one dimension being libertarian-authoritarian on foreign and social issues, and the other being left-right on economic issues. I don't know enough about other country's politics, but use the US politics section as a model. Mr. Anon (talk) 03:29, 25 April 2012 (UTC)
- What? Why? Peter is procrastinating. 03:33, 25 April 2012 (UTC)
- I mean that the political spectrum actually has four sides, plus rankings on social issues. Political positions of parties should be adjusted accordingly, as I have done to the United States section. Positions such as "conservative" or "center-right" are extremely unhelpful, especially since the terms can refer to two different ideologies, one libertarian and the other authoritarian.
[edit] Democratic Party
The US Democratic Party would be center to center right by international standards. Only the Progressives are Center Left, and even most of the liberals are closer to the center. Should we change it or keep it as is? User:Clothcoat
- The Democratic Party's categorization is accurate. The United States was not supposed to have a party system in the first place and until quite recently its politics reflected that because both parties were what non-Americans would refer to as "big tent." Nowadays this applies more to the Democrats than the Republicans, the fact that the latter has started to act like a Parliamentary party (in a system that is not parliamentary) is one of the main reasons why there is so much gridlock in Washington. The joke on the bottom of Rationalwiki's article about the Democratic Party from Will Rogers is only funny because it's so accurate. Alsto003 (talk) 03:22, 1 August 2014 (UTC) Alex