Toshihiro Nikai, chairman of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party's General Council, commenting on the launch of the new opposition Democratic Party.
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Starting a political party is easy, but growing and developing it is not so easy.
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smithinjapan
Of COURSE it's not easy -- especially when you just fill it with dropouts from other parties and with absolutely no new ideas. It becomes a fight between five parties with nothing new to offer, and no appeal except through possible connections. Seriously, what does the new party have to offer that the old did not? Parties in Japan openly agree to policies they are flat out against so that they can in turn later get agreement for something else, or join with other political groups that should have absolutely no relation (Communist party and Democratic party, for example) so that they can simply block another party from achieving something. They have no morals at all, and stick to nothing, and worst is that they are all EXACTLY the same. A new party only forms when a politician has a hissy fit over a personal project not being approved. Then they try to find other people who will approve that project to join. Then when that fails, they quit again, repeat, repeat, repeat.
As deadlocked as US politics is, you cannot deny the two main parties are VERY different in their ideals and their missions. The only party who seems to be a little different from time to time is the Komeito, but then they kow-tow to the LDP on issues so that they can get agreement for other issues later, or else to keep the coalition strong since they sometimes have no representation in areas the LDP does.