Should we have political parties?

The only political parties that I will endorse are the 4th of July parties...

Grandmaster: maybe take a look into other civ-demogames (for example the civ2-one). the rule brought in here by DOF was done because the party-systems seemed to bring always the same people who are almost always "old" citizens to office. the new citizens there never had a chance of getting any office, which led them to leave the game.
our system at the moment lets anyone take any positions. if you get enough ppl to vote you, you make it. in a party-system, the one with the biggest party will have a good advantage.

kinda stupid question...

Can the elected president start a revolution? can she/he, for instance, overthrow the democracy system and create a despotism? creating a dictatorship or impose a monarchy? creating an Empire. If not, what's preventing from happening? if so, has it ever happened before? was anyone there? who saw it? any pictures? Also, about the parties, how about parties based on the government types we can have, ie, a democratic party, a republican party, a communist party and so on...

Ehecatl Atzin

No, the President has no power to start a revolution, apart from the common right to post a poll to that effect. Since this is a community effort, any such attempt would be doomed to failure, unless the revolutionary had an overwhelming support, in which case it's not really a revolution in any case.

I agree, Citizen groups do in a way count as "parties." And they're very stable. Citzen groups can rally behind one candident that's a member or supports their goals and not vote for candidents who don't support thier goals. Of course the groups can't "Tell" the members who to vote for, they can still attempt to rally behind a candident.