Does anyone realize that this is bad for the forum? We need to get ride of Demcrats and Republicans immediately to do the following:
1) Reduce partisanship ('Well, I'm not working with him, because, even though he agrees with me on every single issue, he's a Republicans, and Republicans suck!')
2) Reduce Zell Miller-Michael Moore Syndrome 
3) Reduce non-members coming in and immediatly joining their party in real life, when there is a party better suited for them
*froths at mouth*
Once I thought the same thing. I was one of the first to argue for the dissolution of regular parties for the same reasons as you have mentioned above. Unfortunately, the partisanship of the UAC has shown that republicans and democrats are not the only ones who wallow in rank partisanship. In fact, I think partisanship will be lessened with big tent parties that include all stripes of the right and left wings, respectively. Fantasy parties will invariably tend toward ideological narrowness which will lead to increased partisanship, preferential voting not withstanding. I for one am fairly content with the status quo, with the exception of the fact that the democratic party is no longer in existence. Hopefully Fritz's organizational efforts will rectify that sole blight on forum politics.
