What lives on the party doors
This door is narrower than the other four on purpose. Narrower is what makes it usable by people who disagree with each other about most things.
Here is the actual list of what is not here, so nobody has to guess.
Only on a .com door
| What | Why it is not here |
|---|---|
| Partisan plans | A plan for what a community wants the country to look like is a partisan artefact by definition. |
| The laws and fix bills a community wants added | Each base has its own list of statutes it wants repealed and repairs it wants written. |
| The political-spectrum vote | Matching a citizen to candidates on where they sit only makes sense inside one party's own field. |
| The board of directors | Governance belongs to the community it governs. |
| The yearly strategic conference | Same reason. |
| Trust-score voting | A community can only vouch for people it actually knows. The roll-up here is read only. |
| 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 — What crosses both parties.
- A venue where both bases can reach a decision Washington has not — The cross-party forum.
- Meritocracy in its high-level form: finding candidates most dedicated to citizens and strongest at refusing to be co-opted — Meritocracy and Qualifications.
- The whole shared record — the laws, the problems, the voting records, the awards — which is one record behind all five doors.
What is shared no matter which door you use
Three things bind every edition, and they are arithmetic rather than opinion:
- One award pipeline. The Monkey, Llama and Flamingo awards are computed once, party-blind. No door re-weights, re-rounds or re-thresholds anything, and no door can show its own audience a friendlier version of a voting record.
- The unit of judgement is a person and a vote, never a party.
- Cross-party challengers are always shown. The seat view always includes the strongest challenger who is not from your side, whatever party that turns out to be. A page that only ever showed your own team would be a campaign tool.
Finding your door
One App, Four Doors has the addresses and the reasoning. Short version: if you identify with a party, its door is where your work happens. If you do not, or the problem is bigger than a party, you are already in the right place.