in my country new parties can get into parliament easily, so it’s not a waste of time
You may be right, and I don’t know the details of your situation or your values, but on the face of it that inference isn’t quite justified. It depends on what getting into parliament as such actually achieves. E.g., I can imagine that in some countries it’s easy for someone to start a new party and get into parliament, but a new one-person party in parliament has basically zero power to change anything. (It seems like there must be some difficulty somewhere along the line, because if getting the ability to make major changes in what your country does is easy then everyone will want to do it and it will get harder because of competition. Unless somehow this is a huge opportunity that you’ve noticed and no one else has.)
I like the idea of a political party that has meta-policies rather than object-level policies, but it sounds like a difficult thing to sell to the public in sufficient numbers to get enough influence to change anything.
OK, when I said “easy” I exaggerated quite a bit (I edited in the original post). More accurate would be: “in the last three years at least one new party became popular enough to enter parliament” (the country is Germany and the party would be the AfD, before that, there was the German Pirate Party). Actually, to form a new party the signatures from at least 0.1% of all eligible voters are needed.
but it sounds like a difficult thing to sell to the public in sufficient numbers to get enough influence to change anything.
I also see that problem, my idea was to try to recruit some people on German internet fora and if there is not enough interest drop the idea.
You may be right, and I don’t know the details of your situation or your values, but on the face of it that inference isn’t quite justified. It depends on what getting into parliament as such actually achieves. E.g., I can imagine that in some countries it’s easy for someone to start a new party and get into parliament, but a new one-person party in parliament has basically zero power to change anything. (It seems like there must be some difficulty somewhere along the line, because if getting the ability to make major changes in what your country does is easy then everyone will want to do it and it will get harder because of competition. Unless somehow this is a huge opportunity that you’ve noticed and no one else has.)
I like the idea of a political party that has meta-policies rather than object-level policies, but it sounds like a difficult thing to sell to the public in sufficient numbers to get enough influence to change anything.
OK, when I said “easy” I exaggerated quite a bit (I edited in the original post). More accurate would be: “in the last three years at least one new party became popular enough to enter parliament” (the country is Germany and the party would be the AfD, before that, there was the German Pirate Party). Actually, to form a new party the signatures from at least 0.1% of all eligible voters are needed.
I also see that problem, my idea was to try to recruit some people on German internet fora and if there is not enough interest drop the idea.