Political Parties of Demarcia: A Series

The Demarcian Inquirer team is presenting you a brand new mini-series of three articles about the three political parties of Demarcia: the Demarcian National Party, the Social Democratic Party and the Green Party.

In this article series, the Demarcian Inquirer will be discussing and analyzing the history and philosophy of the political parties of Demarcia, as well as how their ideologies and thought relates to other political parties around the world. In these analyses, the Demarcian Inquirer will be fully impartial, and will be expressing its perspective on what philosophical connections the parties have with other parties as well as where they fit on a political compass.

Before beginning this mini-series by dividing into the parties individually, first, we would like to explain what the state of the Demarcian political compass is and how it compares to the political compass of a typical country in the rest of the world.

The Republic of Demarcia has a very underdeveloped political compass; there are only three political parties and they represent a very limited number of ideologies compared to real life countries - for instance, in Germany, there are seven major political parties, and nearly everybody on the political spectrum has representation of some form in each party.

That's not quite the case in Demarcia. For example; there is no party to present classical liberal to libertarian views in Demarcia at the moment. The Social Democratic Party claimed some attachment to the classical liberal label before January 2020, but in practice the party wasn't quite so and was more of a social liberal party.

Three major ideologies are currently, as of 16 September 2021, represented in Demarcia: social democracy (represented by the Social Democratic Party), green politics (represented by the Green Party) and liberal-conservatism (represented by the Demarcian National Party).

The party with the most developed ideological framework is the Social Democratic Party; it is undoubtedly the most ideological of the three parties and has been most consistent with its ideology of all three in recent history (in the past, however, they were not very consistent and they changed it very often).

The party with the least developed one is arguably the Demarcian National Party, which historically was a big tent party without a clear ideology, until it was given social liberalism as an ideology by GeorgeHarris in spring 2020; however, since then, Vincent_Wolff has taken the party rightwards towards a form of liberal conservatism.

The Green Party's ideology isn't very developed, but it is consistent and clear; from its founding in October 2020 onwards, it has remained green politics and environmentalism.

All three parties represent a relatively big spectrum of opinions, despite having an established ideology. For instance, the Social Democratic Party has a prominent socialist faction, as well as a social liberal faction as of late. The Demarcian National Party, although its ideology at the moment is liberal conservatism, still has many people who do not or might not consider themselves adherents of that ideology. The Green Party is unified on the theme of environmentalism, but might be divided on other issues.

It is hard to depict how a political compass of Demarcian political parties would look like. The most accurate one that can be made would be this one:

One must quite generally take the accuracy of the placements with a slight grain of salt, but the general fact of the matter is that the Demarcian National Party is the most right-leaning of the parties, while the Social Democratic Party is the most left-leaning. The Green Party is squished inbetween them, but is more closely aligned with the Social Democratic Party.

The three political parties of Demarcia have three very distinct ideologies, but in practice the line between them has quite been blurred. The Demarcian National Party now professes a conservatism, but in reality it's not too conservative. The Social Democratic Party includes references to democratic socialism in its programme, but is not socialist in reality.

The Green Party is in extremely flexible with regards to economic issues as its focus is more so on environmental issues and on issues related to energy production and defence. The party is not as libertarian as the Social Democratic Party due to its advocacy of a military coup ahead of the May 2021 elections, but this is not to say that they're in a fixed position because of that and that they will not drift further towards the libertarian half of the compass as time goes.

The Social Democrats are meanwhile the most left-leaning economically, which is not surprising, though they are not extreme left and are firmly in the centre-left. They're also the most libertarian leaning of the three major parties owing to their advocacy and progress on issues such as abortion rights for women. Meanwhile, the Demarcian National Party is the most right-leaning economically, which is not a surprise given its last manifesto, and is most authoritarian leaning, also in great part due to its last manifesto.

This is essentially the Demarcian political compass. As you can see, most of the political spectrum is not adequately represented by the three political parties; socialists are a minor voice in the Social Democratic Party and one would presume they would much rather have their own party, and classical liberals and national conservatives have no options whatsoever that are mostly in alignment with what their views might be. The Demarcian National Party has made economically right-wing overtures with its last manifesto, but its actual commitment to economic liberalism and laissez-faire capitalism is unclear. The national conservatives, likewise, presumably want to go much further than Vincent_Wolff has so far in terms of pro-family, pro-tradition policies.

The parties will be analysed in detail in the coming articles. We will discover why they are what they are, how they came to be what they are, and how adequately do they represent the ideologies they identify with, especially in the context of how they're similar to other parties around the world.

Demarcian Inquirer Team