Non-Partisan Political Parties: Already Exist or Logically Impossible?

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5. But a party that has no ideological orientation will not attract any members.

It might attract a few people who want to run for office. But think about it. The purpose of political parties is for like-minded people to work together to elect people to office. If you take away the broadly similar ideological outlook of the members, then there is no reason for a political party to exist.

Let's say some guy creates a party and says "I want to run for office, please join my party to help me get elected."

The first question anyone is going to ask is, "Uh, why would I want to spend my time and money helping to get YOU elected?"

Which answer is going to get the desired response?

OPTION 1: "I just want to get elected. You should help me, because that's the nice thing to do. My political ideology shouldn't matter."

OPTION 2: "You should help me get elected because I am going to fight for the issues you care about."