Washington wrote that the party would be more concerned with it’s self than the voters common good.
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belief that political parties were harmful and divisive.
Many interest groups and political parties form as a branch or a previous organisation, but members mainly join for a purpose or goal, a common belief, for solidarity and positive incentives.
Political parties do the bidding of those who pay for them. They often need to get people to vote for them in which case they try to get votes so they can hold power and put in the laws those funding them desire. It has always been that to some extent but in the past political parties were often created by the people to address issues of inequality or to advance a political belief. That is the history of the NDP, a Western based party meant to advance the causes of Western Canadians. Something they are clearly far from today as they hold many anti-Western Canadian beliefs but beliefs well supported by those that fund them today.
The major function of a political party is to nominate, or name, candidates for public office. That is, the parties select candidates and then present them to the voters. Then the parties work to help their candidate to win elections. Parties also inform people, and inspire and activate their interest and participation in public affairs.
political efficacy.