It needs to start local and grow. We need a proper left-wing party, if we can ever get organized enough to do such a thing rather than relying on what already exists.

And as I said, I think the best course of action is a measured approach. Local Elections, Off-year elections and non-presidential elections. Grow in numbers, gain public confidence and start snowballing.

The reason why third parties are progressively weakening is because of a lack of faith, and third party's consistent decimation in the presidential is a big part of it.

Its counter intuitive, but voting third-party hurts third parties in the long run if you focus on them primarily during presidential elections.

I'm not the standard "Oh the third party will never win type." I'm actively against trying to run before we can walk.

Confidence is a big deal in elections. It's more obvious in Primaries. If people see a candidate they like in the Primaries, but they don't think they can win against the opposition candidate, they will not vote for the candidate they like. They will vote for the candidate that they have the most confidence in even if they don't like that candidate.

We need to start a from the ground up political party that's entire focus is to stay out of the view of presidential elections, We need to start focusing on bringing Ranked Choice Voting to as many locations as possible. And it will be a long process. But it's far better than repeatedly doing the same thing every election cycle.

We always have the situation of 99% evil vs 100% evil both with a roughly 50/50 chance of winning and a selection of third party candidates who are decent but have 0 chance of winning.

Third party candidate loses, 99% or 100% evil wins. Third Party yet again becomes less relevant and less considered. Repeat. This cycle can only end if we stop focusing on the obvious losing strategy.