re: #68 Conservative Moonbat

That’s not how third parties have traditionaly worked in the US due to the “first past the post” electoral system. The two parties with the most in common split the vote, giving the election to the party least like them. Examples are Nader throwing the election to Bush in 2000, Perot throwing it to Clinton before that. There’s been a long history of them going back to the free-soilers iirc.

Very true, however we’re stuck with few options, reform the election process and go to something like IRV, or try to coopt the crazies and retake control of the Republican party, or form a third party and try to coopt the middle. I refuse to hope for the country to crash and burn just so another party is in power.

No one wants to reform the election process, so I say go to the middle and stake out positions and try to draw back the disaffected independents and conservative Democrats