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Does not exist, has no chance in any Anglo country.
Only large mainstream parties, or ethnic regional parties, have any chance of success in the UK, Canada, Australia, US,
because there is no proportional representation like in continental European countries.
There are single-member districts, so there are hundreds of simultaneous separate elections,
and whichever (mainstream) party wins the plurality (most votes), wins the seat.
2nd place wins nothing.
So non-mainstream political movements have no chance to develop and gradually each 1st place.
There must be change WITHIN one of the mainstream parties,
which was successfully accomplished in the US with Trump's hostile takeover of the Republican Party,
with the help of the American people who want change and are able to select their party's candidate.
But other mainstream Anglo parties, and the Democrat Party,
make it much more difficult or impossible for party members to choose their candidates.
Often only elected officials are able to choose their leaders, or the choice of leaders is only from among elected officials,
and as you can imagine, the patronage network and institutional corruption is very deep.
So I do not expect much change in the UK.
Some of my friends live in Britain in a Conservative (Tory) safe seat, the election outcome is always known long in advance.
They never have and probably never will vote for the Tories, so what is the purpose of even voting?
Likewise in Canada I live in a Liberal safe seat, there is not much reason to vote besides civic duty.
Nothing will change, except in the seats that are NOT safe seats,
and there will only be fluctuation between the mainstream parties.
"Non-mainstream" ideas will never be represented, and will be censored/silenced to protect the mainstream parties.
There were multiple political parties in East Germany as well, but they were all "mainstream" or controlled opposition.
Last edited by CosmoLady; 03-21-2024 at 08:18 PM.
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