Hey I am not attempting to discourage the formation of a third party, just putting out the warning that it won't be easy.
The system has tolerated third parties the way a cow tolerates barn flies, and for the last 90 years all they've done is create a wedge to take votes away from one candidate or the other from the two main parties.
But the moment a third party actually was to threaten to take over either main party we would see some sort of end run to remove them from power. The RNC and DNC will never tolerate such a move, any more than the old PRI was willing to tolerate anything which constituted a threat to their stranglehold on Mexican politics for 78 years.
In fact, that's where I am drawing the bulk of my assessment from. There is an elite hardwired into either the Dem or GOP model and if anything threatens their hold on power they will attempt to use the law as a bludgeon in an effort to dissuade voters from any long term loyalty.
The old saws about how useless it is to vote for candidates that can't win will come up, the demonization, but in the end each state's party offices will try their level best to outright prevent access.
I am convinced that it will take an uprising of some kind to force the two major parties to step aside and allow a functioning third party, because in the end what we are looking at is NOT the "creation of a third party" but rather the DISSOLUTION of one of the OTHER PARTIES.
Think about it, there is NO WAY that the GOP would survive a mass defection to a viable third party, and the Dems ain't goin nowhere soon honey!
So what we are actually talking about is an almost nonfunctional GOP with very few members and almost NO POWER, and a NEW party that takes their place for the most part.
The GOP won't put up with it and the Dems aren't going to be very happy either.
You know the rest.
