(02-07-2017, 02:42 PM)Belschaft Wrote: Is there anything that political parties do - primary elections, discussing/drafting proposed legislation, etc - that couldn't occur in the Assembly, involving all TSPers?

At the end of the day TSP is a direct democracy, with about thirty people involving themselves regularly in the process of government. That's not a group of people large enough that there's a need for the representative and organisational elements of political parties. IRL they need to exist because you can't gather the entirety of a nations citizenry in one place and give everyone a chance to express their own views in person; here we can and do.

So? What's wrong with them? Political parties are groups of people like you and me, who vote and participate in our politics, and these share common interests and goals, but with fancy labels. You could gather a group of people in secret for some political goal and it is still similar, if not the same as a political party de facto in most ways.

Stop this. Political parties are, in their core, individuals. And if the majority does not want what political parties propose, then they can't do anything about it. At their core, they have as much power as independents do person by person.