Is the Democratic Party the most ideologically diverse in the world?

[TheDeadFlagBlues]

I'm not sure that PRI is so much ideologically diverse as non-ideological.  Same goes for the LDP of Japan.

Yes, both the PRI and LDP have no political convictions whatsoever outside of the conviction to stay in power as long as possible.

I have to agree with Shua on this one. The amount of ideological space that exists between someone like Jan Schakowsky and Cory Booker is gigantic. There aren't many countries where they could co-exist in the same party.

[TheDeadFlagBlues]

How about the Liberal Democrats in Britain? Blair once bitched that they ran to the left of Labor in left wing areas, and to the right of Labor in more right wing areas  - veritable chameleons.  Maybe more order has been restored since they hitched up with the Tories.

That was just posturing for political gain, in practice the LibDems have always been a party of the centre or the centre-right (depending on what "wing" of the party the MPs are from).

[TheDeadFlagBlues]

How about the Liberal Democrats in Britain? Blair once bitched that they ran to the left of Labor in left wing areas, and to the right of Labor in more right wing areas  - veritable chameleons.  Maybe more order has been restored since they hitched up with the Tories.

That was just posturing for political gain, in practice the LibDems have always been a party of the centre or the centre-right (depending on what "wing" of the party the MPs are from).

The Social Democrats identified with the left of center (hence the name), but certainly the Liberals were always an anti-socialist party.

Eh, they may have identified with the left but the ground they took up was effectively the center and in many ways they were the prelude to New Labour. Most of their MPs were by no means "leftist".