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Fastest Route To A Viable Third party?

Masterhawk said:
allowing 3rd party candidates to debate with the GOP and D nominees would do the trick
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Nope, wouldn't mean a thing because third parties in America simply do not appeal to a sizeable portion of the American electorate. It isn't visibility, it's the appeal of their platforms. Even if everyone knew about them, they wouldn't get any more support.
 
JasperL said:
Seems to me the problem is more 'math' than voters - winning a plurality means basically appealing to the middle in some way or another, so we elect what are basically liberal republicans (aka RINOs) and democrats to the right of that party (corporate democrats). Bottom line is there just aren't many voters like Jill Stein or the libertarian flavor of the cycle.

Plus, the massive in-place infrastructure of the two main parties matters a great deal, and the big money matters. And when you have races that like now cost over $2 billion (from all sources, both major parties) for POTUS and a House seat now costing $millions, Senate seat $10 million minimum, the candidates have to attract the money and so, no kidding as expected and what any rational person wanting to WIN would do, push policies that appeal to (or don't really harm at least) very rich people!

Blaming "voters" might be fun, but IMO it's like a business that failed blaming its customers for not recognizing how awesome the product was. Might even be true, but pretty worthless as any kind of strategy or suggestion on how to make things better.
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And you really believe Trump or Clinton are "the middle"? ;)

But, don't forget that "the middle" is the mean of the voters' opinions.
 
We need 5 or 6 viable political parties, and we need them fast.

The current 2 party system has little to do with what the framers intended.
 
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