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? 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"...  ħ uman  19:34, 6 September 2008 (EDT)

Labour Party
The UK Labour Party is "Classically liberal"? Says who? 08:15, 6 May 2010 (UTC)

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.


 * Of course, the ideal is to just have every party compared issue-by-issue, but that will take a while. Mr. Anon (talk) 03:38, 25 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Thats cool and all, but honestly, most people dont give a damn about the up down axis in politics.-- il' Dictator   Mikal  03:56, 25 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Surely through we should try to be more specific than just saying "center-left" or "conservative"? I mean ideally each section would have its own table that compares each party by general issue ranges (social, economic, and military). Mr. Anon (talk) 00:58, 26 April 2012 (UTC)

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

Anti-partisan ideologies
This is a thing, where I feel like the wiki's general consensus is going to be "they're great!", but we don't talk about on this page the general and specific ideologies that have an antagonistic relationship with parties. "Bipartisan consensus" as a positive concept. Compromise as innately moral. Lambasting angry disagreement as tribalism. I'm looking hard for the scholarly term for this kind of ideology, and I don't just mean centrism, because the anti-partisan viewpoint still exists in multiparty states. So, what i'm asking for is, if I were going to look for appropriately researched literature on the concept to integrate into this article, does anyone know what actual political scientists call it? ikanreed 🐐Bleat at me 15:08, 31 October 2018 (UTC)
 * Well, quick follow up, "antipartisan" in the literature does refer to cases like the soviets and the nazis eradicating parties other than their own through brutal suppression. So I guess that's a third way to be "antipartisan".  ikanreed 🐐Bleat at me 15:12, 31 October 2018 (UTC)