Text: To face this successfully may take a fundamental rethinking of the American-style political party, and a move away from a model of political consumerism - in which parties attract voters with minor message tweaks and appeals to identity and self-expression - and toward one of association, where the party is a participatory organization with purpose and structure beyond electing a handful of ambitious people to office.
Text: To face this successfully may take a fundamental rethinking of the American-style political party, and a move away from a model of political consumerism - in which parties attract voters with minor message tweaks and appeals to identity and self-expression - and toward one of association, where the party is a participatory organization with purpose and structure beyond electing a handful of ambitious people to office.