Concerning exigence,  if I understand it correctly, the need to get rid of political parties was expressed by George Washington, in the midst of them being created. While it isn’t really plausible to do this at a national level, at a more local level, part of this idea could be carried out with the allowance of candidates not identifying as a certain party in a local election. This would hopefully push voters to do more research on who they are voting for, rather than blindly vote for whoever was running in their party. This coupled with a mandatory education experience about what the parties are and what their values are. This is important because it affects every person and voters don’t always do their research because they don’t know how. We were never really taught about our politics, and how the system worked. I learned about it in the 8th grade sure, but do I really remember anything from that? Nope. So I think there is a demand for this education and push to do research before you vote, even if it isn’t publicly recognized.

As for the rhetorical situation, my audience would in general be the public because it affects everyone. Also, I would target candidates for the local elections. This policy could potentially help them- as it has in the past as Jessica said in her comment on my original proposal. For the education program, the audience for that would be high school seniors, who would take a class in their school, right around the time they turn 18 because this age has the most kairos, as it is the age where you can vote and politics suddenly do concern them more because they have a say now. There isn’t much kairos for the policy in general right now, other than it being an election year, however this policy wouldn’t affect the Presidency elections. It could however drum up enough support at this time because people are focused on elections more because of the election of the President.