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It honestly just venting. Third party is just a label to make one feel good. More often than not the third party is effectively one of the two main party when you look at their agenda. The exception to this rule are for political boundaries that have a small ass population or Party ideology is irrelevant (e.g. town governance). An effective third party politician is simply a politician that agrees 95% of the mainstream Party and they want their 5% to be at the forefront of their platform.
A true third party is not something most Americans want. They have ideology that are extremely contradictory or extremely fringe. When you vote for a Party, you're not just voting for the ideas you like. Remember our mainstream political party are a coalition of different sub-parties. If a third party had a winnable platform then they would integrate with the mainstream party as a sub-party, with no change to their platform, to take advantage of the mainstream party's resources.
Comment by bl1y at 01/04/2023 at 12:53 UTC
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The Libertarians and Greens are definitely not just a different flavor of Republicans or Democrats.
But, you are right that they're not something most Americans want. Who actually wants to open the borders and abolish public schools?