I saw an Andrew Yang post promoting his Foward Party (trash btw) aiming at gathering right wingers to a populist option instead of the GOP since Trump is corrupt.
And the comments are full of people saying MAGA is the third party option OR that he’s a democratic shill.
Yang posted a similar post promoting his party aimed at liberals to diverge from the Democratic Party and the comments were supportive and saying how the Democratic Party should die.
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.