If we want change, you need at least 2 full presidential cycles, probably more. You would need to build up a grassroots third party, start getting candidates who are willing to run for all the unglamorous positions like town selectman and school committee and work your way up from there. No magical third party president is going to come out of the woodwork and solve all your problems, and even if they did, the president is mostly just a figurehead.
I wouldn’t even bother even floating a 3rd party presidential candidate until you have ~1/3 of the house and at least a quarter of the senate under this 3rd party.
I suspect that there’s a lot more people than we think who would rather not vote for either Trump or Biden, but they don’t want to throw their vote away.
This is why we need rank choice voting. It would eliminate any risk of people voting for a third party while also voting for the lesser of two evils put forth by the D & R’s.
The only reason I can see why rank choice voting is not already everywhere is because they know it would strip power away from the top.
If we want change, you need at least 2 full presidential cycles, probably more. You would need to build up a grassroots third party, start getting candidates who are willing to run for all the unglamorous positions like town selectman and school committee and work your way up from there. No magical third party president is going to come out of the woodwork and solve all your problems, and even if they did, the president is mostly just a figurehead.
I wouldn’t even bother even floating a 3rd party presidential candidate until you have ~1/3 of the house and at least a quarter of the senate under this 3rd party.
I suspect that there’s a lot more people than we think who would rather not vote for either Trump or Biden, but they don’t want to throw their vote away.
This is why we need rank choice voting. It would eliminate any risk of people voting for a third party while also voting for the lesser of two evils put forth by the D & R’s.
The only reason I can see why rank choice voting is not already everywhere is because they know it would strip power away from the top.