A New Party

This week’s blog is to focus on what would happen if a new political party formed and what would it look like? I would like to take this stance as if the Republican Party collapsed. What would come from the so called “ashes” is what I feel would be a moderate party.
It seems that in the past elections the Democratic Party as well as the Republican Party has become very polarized. The Democrats seem to be more to the left than ever and Republicans more to the right. This polarization is forcing people to pick sides and most people these days are shifting more to the Democratic Party.
In our readings it is said that the political party must be understood in three parts. Those three parts are the party in the electorate, the party in government, and the party in an organization (Aldrich, p.164). As far as the new party goes in the electorate the moderate new party would have to work more with liberal views and make them more right leaning in order to gain support from still conservative voters. Also by doing this in elections this might shift our traditionally conservative states that went democrat in the past election back to being more Republican. As far as the party in government they will obviously have to take a more moderate stance on issues that the Republicans would normally own. This would push Republicans more to the left, but it is much better than pushing them completely out and only having one political party. As for party organization the party will have to organize to persuade those states that have been in the past more conservative to being more moderate.
The party’s leaders can no longer be someone who is a polarized candidate, but somebody with more moderate views. A name that comes to mind as a possible candidate would be Nancy Pelosi. As far as the platforms goes at first it must be more moderate, but as time goes by the party could push itself back towards the right which would mean a more competitive race for office.