Hello. My name is YankiRBLX. I am creating this discussion in the hopes of starting a true petition to constitutionalize political parties and their association. As a member of the public, I know it is somewhat difficult for the average person to get chances at government offices and to get policies that they want to see instituted. A people’s party would be able to do just that, but is unconstitutional. If we were able to have political parties, we could see people truly have some control over who they want in office by being able to associate with those who share similar ideas. A political party is only criminalized in the constitution because those in power are afraid of people coming together and sponsoring a person who the majority of that groupa grees with. Let us come together and allow freedom of expressing our political views, and come together as a People’s Party!
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Yes, I will sponsor u in mine if you allow it.
IM A JUDGE???
NO absolutely not. horrible idea
source?
if the above is true, this isn’t true
source: i co-wrote the constitution
it SHOULD be criminalized tho fr
As a member of the public, I know it is somewhat difficult for the average person to get chances at government offices and to get policies that they want to see instituted.
False. Most house elections have been by default, getting into the House of Representatives is generously easy and if not that the County and Municipal councils have been neglected as of recent.
A people’s party would be able to do just that, but is unconstitutional.
False. See: Firestone Bill of Rights, Section I.
A political party is only criminalized in the constitution because those in power are afraid of people coming together and sponsoring a person who the majority of that groupa grees with.
False. See: Firestone Bill of Rights, Section I.
Let us come together and allow freedom of expressing our political views and come together as a People’s Party!
Already allowed. See: Firestone Bill of Rights, Section I, II and VI
The only prohibition set against parties is the prohibition of parties being endorsed by the government. The government is allowed to restrict itself…The only reason we don’t have parties is because the FS political community is historically anti-party, and their decision to not support parties and therefore squash party’s relevance is protected by the Firestone Bill of Rights, Section I.
As a huge proponent to freedom of speech – as everyone should be – it is important to know the facts. Let’s not be ignorant.
people already have a group of people who the majority vote for them in elections- it’s called a friend group!
so can i make a discord server called the FPP friend group and its not a political party
so i can have a political party but the government cannot endorse it?
Yep! That is correct. The government cannot constitutionally stop you from organizing a political party as long as it doesn’t verge on becoming a criminal organization (which doesn’t really exist anymore). It just also won’t touch it.
The absence of political parties is important in Firestone. It makes it so that politicians think independently and make decisions with their own intelligence or based on the will of the people. It makes elections competitive, and encourages people to elect candidates based on merit, experience, and goals.
The existence of political parties wouldn’t make it easier for the average person to get into politics. Instead, it would be harder. I recommend joining departments and businesses, then running for municipal office (many city councils have easy and by-default elections), and eventually you can progress to Congress.
As previously stated by others, while political parties ARE legal, they aren’t a good idea. There was a poll about a year ago on the topic, and from 100+ people I believe ~60+% of them voted that they were against political parties.
arent parties fedlaw’d?
Says the guy who co runs one
Define a political party
commie heathen
The Constitution prohibits state recognition or support of political parties, not the outright ban of the concept. Source: I wrote the amendment that did this many years ago, and the BOR.
Parties are a bad idea for governance generally, frankly. But from when they were both kosher and common in FS, it was a clusterfuck. If it wasn’t a meme party making a collective to do dumb shit, it was subversive and shady shit. The beauty of the difference between a republican system of government and a true democracy is that people are fucking stupid, and limiting their ability to implode the government and society through sheer incompetence is the key to good governance. The absence of partisanship in FS has allowed a greatly accessible legislature to the people while maintaining a class of educated and influential figures in each branch to maintain a sense of order and standards.