Kansas businessman Scott Morgan has announced that he is hoping to organize a new party, for Kansas, to be called “Party of the Center.” He will try to get it on the 2018 ballot. See this story.
Kansas formerly had a law saying a party could only have one word in its name, but the Natural Law Party sued Kansas in 2000 to overturn this law, and the state conceded it could not defend the law, and repealed it.
Sounds like a Great Idea! I’m not sure the name is that good, but “Centrist Party” wouldn’t be understood by the majority of people, “Union Party” wouldn’t be bad… Anyway Best of Luck to them with organizing.
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@Karl T. Knight, why not “Federalist Party”. It would symbolic in a way for the building block of the American government. Republicans representing republicanism, Democrats for democracy, and Federalists for federalism.
Quite frankly, I think even more people would be confused over a Federalist Party in today’s age than anything like a Centrist Party. Using political party labels that died out at least a century and a half ago will lead to misunderstanding of what the party and label stand for.
The notion of a “Centrist” party presumes self-placement in a one-dimensional “left-right” spectrum.
@Walt Ziobro
Totally agree, there’s a big difference between an top-center party and a bottom-center party. A center-center party could be a mishmash of people with completely differing beliefs as long as they “average out” to the center square of the spectrum.
He’s a businessman, so maybe it’ll be a “Party of the Profit Center”. (Dunno how much hope I have for this new party if he’s “working with a core group of people . . . who feel like the two major parties have polarized to the left and right fringes of the political spectrum”. . . .)
More or less control freak STATISM — for 6,000 plus years —
by SMALL gangs of top elitist freaks — with their foreign wars and domestic tyranny.
See Stalin and Hitler regimes in 1900s.
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PR and AppV.
@Ziobro – Agree as well, but I’m not familiar with a three-dimensional political model – BTW: Is there such a thing?
@Karl T. Knight
I think he is referring to the 2D political spectrum popularized by the Nolan Chart:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nolan_Chart
@Karl T. Knight
There can be three or more dimensions to a political model:
holisticpolitics.org
I’d love to see this take flight but can’t find anywhere to sign the petition. Do you need signatures or not? If so, let us know how we can help.