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There is, it seems to me, not enough attention being paid in our discourse to what it takes to build a party. I'm not saying you can't stomp a party out of the ground in a short period of time, but it requires a huge amount of organisational work, and an extreme amount of care in doing so.
In the current political landscape, in which many countries have an increasingly large drifting electorate, the volatility caused by high fluctuations for existing parties and big entries for new parties is turning into a real governance problem.
This is partially informed by observing the rapid rise and implosion of Fortuynism in the Netherlands, granted. But I think it's an important side of (and trend in) politics few people are really paying enough attention to.
So, again, thanks.
However, in Germany, I think this applies to the Schill party in next-to-vote Hamburg, and the one-off successes of the far-right parties in the East, less to the Left Party. *Traitor*, n. A benighted individual who perceives an illusory distinction between serving his nation and abetting the criminals who govern it.
