What only lives on a party door
This door is narrower than the other four on purpose, because narrower is what makes it usable by people who disagree with each other about most things. Here is the list, so nobody has to guess.
The list
- Partisan plans. A plan for what a community wants the country to look like is a partisan artefact by definition. The plan on this door is the high-level one: making sure the best candidates are found and can stay working for citizens.
- The partisan laws and fix bills a community wants added. Each base has its own list of statutes it wants repealed and its own repairs it wants written.
- The political-spectrum vote that matches a citizen to candidates who fit where they sit. This only makes sense inside one party's own field.
- The board of directors. Governance belongs to the community it governs.
- The yearly strategic conference.
- Trust-score voting. A community can only vouch for people it has some way of knowing. The roll-up here is read only — see The read-only roll-up.
- Religious framing. One door's own messaging carries it. No religion is named on this door or on the other three.
What is here instead
- Capture that runs against both bases at once — Why A Non-Partisan Site.
- A venue where both bases can reach a decision Washington has not — The cross-party forum.
- Meritocracy in its high-level form: candidates most dedicated to citizens, strongest at refusing to be co-opted — Meritocracy and Qualifications.
- The shared record itself — the laws, the problems, the voting records and the awards, which are one record behind all five doors.
Why the split is written down rather than left to taste
A door that quietly drifted into carrying its own partisan package would stop being neutral ground, and there would be no cross-party venue left anywhere. Publishing the boundary is what lets a reader hold us to it.