Aah, so the NLPD is in fact a Socialist party rather than a Liberal one?
But regarding the need for Liberal parties, I may not have made myself clear. I was not asking why the Republic needs more than one Liberal party; I was asking why the Republic needs any Liberal parties at all.
The free-market ideology is pushed forwards by the Anarcho-Liberal DDA, which seems to gain about as much popular support as one would expect from such an economic policy. And calls for socialist reforms have been chiefly the domain of the self-declaredly Socialist SDAP. I think it likely that the Liberal parties hereon will likely exist only to divide and so weaken these Jacobin or Socialist causes, or to bureaucratically sustain themselves through ontological inertia.
But as for the division between the Conservative parties - sometimes I ask myself the same question, why does the Republic need two conservative parties? Ostensibly, the Hohenzollern Unger Nationalist Party exists for those who take a Jingoist and Kaiserist approach to foreign policy, while the New Society prefers an approach of moderatio rebus omnibus. But sometimes I wonder if such a disagreement really warrants dividing the Conservative vote. Perhaps, someday, there will be a single unified Conservative party, presiding over the preservation of our Republic... If current voting figures do not change much, then it would command a substantial majority of the Reichstag.
But of course, such a unification would require much negotiation and much political discourse between our two parties. One day, perhaps, but not one day any time soon.
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