[Phantasm]

Trying to present this in a way as to not endorse any ideology/party. Mods, please edit as needed to keep it within forum guidelines, as we're already skirting the line with this conversation.


Honestly, if you want a new party in the US, you start grass-roots. Grab a few municipal seats in a region, move onto the state legislature, repeat the next state over where the people share your ideals, and be prepared to face off against the two-party system from the word "go" in that both parties have the backing of nation-wide organizations to get advertising and debate space, especially since both parties will (possibly rightly) see the upstart as "stealing our voter base". This will take decades to get into the position of earning enough seats in Congress to affect policy changes in the company's favor.

This is why none of our third-party candidates will ever win the White House, and even in the very slim chance they win they'll be fighting a hostile Congress - regardless of which party controls either house - every step of the way, and why even our third- and fourth-largest parties, the Libertarian and Socialist Parties, top out at being a coalition force in state legislatures, a governor (AZ had a Libertarian governor in the past), or one of the very few Independents in Congress who need to side with one of the two larger parties to get their stuff through (e.g. the two Socialists from Vermont in the Senate).

Clear as mud?