Political Parties In The Goverment

I gladly accept the role of affirming this topic. I'm fairly new here, so I'm unsure if I should write as much as I am in the first post, but bear with me (and of course, feel free to counter all of this in your response)Framework:1. Whomever can provide the most in terms of net-benefits should win the round, as that way there is little room lent for judge intervention and bias.2. Examining democracy as a whole and not solely as it pertains to the US is preferable(a) This provides us with the most amount of education, as there is no ethnocentric limit to the round(b) On grounds of fairness, this interpretation lends to the most access to literature, as one expands usuable literature when considering a multitude of countries.Background:1. Political parties have inherently existed alongside democratic governments. A common understanding of political parties yields them to be the collective organization of persons sharing a defined ideologyCaseAdvantage 1: Political ParticipationA. Uniqueness1. In most democracies, apathy seems to be a common enemy to the functionality of the democratic institution.(a) Consistently, voter turnout in the US has fallen below the 50% threshold, the acception being the more recent elections, still falling short of 2/3rds of the population(b) Aristotle postulated himself the idea that the ultimate decay of a republic comes from the apathy of voters allowing for an oligarchical or aristocratic centralization of power outside of the control of voters due to apathy(c) A root cause of voter apathy is unequal access to resources needed to make informed decisions or underexposure(d) Simply because the US has low turnout and political parties does not mean the parties are the cause. My advocacy is the opposite, turnout would be substantially threatened in the absense of parties(e) Voter turnout is on the brink now; the low rates of turnouts makes the necessity of parties higher2.Political parties allow for collective simplification of the voting process(a) Political parties maintain a basic universally identifiable platform(b) Additionally, by organizing ideologies into parties, fundraising becomes accessable and easier(c) Parties allow for the classification of individuals to easily identify stancesB. Links1. Political parties seek to simplify the process and engage voters(a) Funds raised by the collective party allow for public outreach such as advertisements(b) Parties seek to inform voters. Intentional or not, in attempting to rally support, voters recieve more information than they otherwise would(c) Political parties have a collective interest in engaging voters nationallyC. Internal Links1. Voter turnout is critically threatened, making parties necessary to avoid democratic decay2. Information and ease of understanding make political parties an extremely efficient toolD. Impacts1. Destruction of democratic function(a) The interaction of politicians allows for both compromise and negotiation with bills(b) The lack of voter turnout allows for select groups of politicians to gain power(c) Complete apathy of the voting policy effectively defuncts democracy(d) In absense of competative elections, nations lack popular soveriegnty (as it depends on such), a pillar of democracy(e) Dysfunctional governments yield to tyrranical marginalization of select populations and corruption(f) An unresponsive government threatens individual autonomy when threats to liberty are not preventable2. Political effiecency(a) In parliamentarian systems in particular, political parties are crucial to effiecency.(b) Looking at the UK in particular, one sees how allowing a few major parties allows for an extremely efficient government when formed(c) To win votes, parties must form coalitions, meaning parties make concessions that allow for democracy to be enhanced(d) Less centralized systems that allow for excessive parties often find inneffiecency as parties cannot reach compromise sufficient for legislative action due to a lack of coherent platforms by which one understands parties(e) cross apply the analysis from the above impact; inefficient governments are less responsive, and therefore less democraticAdvantage 2: MarginalizationA. Uniqueness1. Currently, the most marginalized populations also have the least access to influence on governments(a) Inherently, the most oppressed are the least in tune with the government2. Tyrrany of the majority is a major threat to democracy(a) A plurality of the US's founding fathers advocated to avoid tyrrany of the majorityB. Links1. Political parties provide an outlet for minority voices to have a say in government(a) The competative nature of parties means that parties must secure a wide varity of votes, as the assumption exists that the opposition would do the same(b) As result, parties must make positions to include minority views to ensure they have enough support(c) In coalition governments, minority voices gain a huge degree of access from the existance of parties. Support for smaller parties co-exists with the need to form coalitions. Take the current government of the UK, two ideologically distinct parties formed the coalition on a series of concessions, giving the otherwise small minority party a substantial voiceC. Internal Links1. Participation of minorities is the key internal link to preventing marginalization and the politicals of disposabilityD. Impacts1. Cross apply the first impact of the first advantage: participation gives government its function2. Marginalized voters are dehumanized(a) In excluding minority voices from government participation, access is essentially made aristocratic(b) Those without access do not have their opinions heard(c) Without a voice for opinions, the value percieve to these persons becomes decreased(d) This dehumanizing effect lowers these population's value to life. They become pragmatically insignificant, and are reduced to statistical figures, IE numbers on a page(e) When value is not given to a group's life, it is not given to death either, and human right's violations not only become justified, they become probable(f) Value to life is the most important impact to analyse. It supercedes all other claims as without value to life, even death is preferable. Not having a significant degree of conciousness enslaves one to their body and drags out existance that is painful