[t-3]

The voters are not the party and the party is not the party leadership. The actual policies that end up being supported have little-to-nothing to do with the stuff that gets talked about while campaigning, and this only gets more true the further away from the actual voter the position is.

[Aeolun]

Yeah. You can implement any policy you want if you can always blame the other party for it (and have your voters eat it up).