Until the Electoral College is abolished, third parties will never gain enough momentum to make a positive difference. All they do, currently, is siphon votes away from the ideologically closest party. If not abolition of the EC, then at least nationwide ranked-choice voting is a minimum requirement.

If 3rd parties really want to make a difference, instead of trotting out every 4 years for a presidential run (cough Jill Stein cough), run as independent or 3rd party in lower-level elections and work toward systematic change from the bottom up.

If a 3rd party only pops up for the big-ticket elections (cough Jill Stein cough), then as far as I'm concerned, they're spoilers acting in bad faith.

AFAIK, that cough is not COVID; it's just really dry in here.

I'm going to lock this because it's not really a question meant to inspire conversation, it's more an inflammatory statement posed as a question. This is more appropriate for e.g. !flippanarchy@lemmy.dbzer0.com. If you can come up with a less inflammatory title / something more conducive towards casual conversation, feel free to post again.

You should be asking questions instead of perpetuating neoliberal nonsense.

The Democratic Party is only there to ensure the interests of the capitalist elite and prevent any real political party from forming against those interests

(this is not a defense of Andrew Yang or whatever bullshit political party he is backing)

What makes you think third parties aren't there to hurt the Republican party? You've never heard of libertarians?

Personally, I think it's really fucked up that the "two party system" is even a thing and election reform aimed at killing it should be a highest priority in the US.