01 / MAP
Make the spectrum visible
Show that political identity contains more than a party label and that multiple ideological traditions coexist inside both major parties.
A Rep My Block projectPolitics is bigger than two parties.
Politics Center maps the major political tendencies found inside American politics and connects them to ideological traditions recognized around the world.
Find your political tendency.
The goal is to make ideological differences visible instead of compressing the entire American political landscape into a binary Democrat-versus-Republican label.
The Right Caucuses
Right → CenterWhat this project is trying to do.
Politics Center was launched to give American political tendencies clearer names and homes, using political classifications that are familiar internationally.
02 / ORGANIZE
Build recognizable caucuses
Create identifiable spaces for people who share a political tendency to find one another, organize, and participate in party structures.
03 / CONNECT
Use a common vocabulary
Connect American political language with ideological families and classifications already used elsewhere in the world.
Two ways to read American politics.
Explore the underlying classification systems used by this project.
European Model
See the political classification framework that Politics Center uses to organize ideological tendencies along the spectrum.
Explore EuropeanModel.org →American Model
Compare the international framework with the way political identity and party competition are commonly understood in the United States.
Explore AmericanModel.org →Neither Left nor Right.
Some political organizations define themselves outside the conventional left–right classification, which is a total waste of time. Politics Center keeps them visible to encourage them to engage in either their local Democratic or their local Republican Party.
As an example, Article II, Section 8 of the New York Constitution states: “with the duty of qualifying voters, or of distributing ballots to voters, or of receiving, recording or counting votes at elections, shall secure equal representation of the two political parties which, at the general election next preceding that for which such boards or officers are to serve, cast the highest and the next highest number of votes.”
This means that anything regarding elections will always be organized by the two major parties, and that anyone outside those two parties will only be an observer when the two parties agree to let them observe.
Learn how political organization works.
The original site uses two short videos to explain the origin of Left and Right and how people can participate in party leadership. They deserve a first-class place in the page.
Politics becomes clearer when people can name what they believe.
Explore a caucus, compare the political models, or use Rep My Block if you want to participate directly in local party politics.