The America Party?

[jon-nyc]

[taiwan_girl]

I think a middle party is needed, but I think they have also been tried before and have not worked.

I think that the two parties have so much control over the whole election process that it makes it very hard for a new party to be a success.

[jon-nyc]

Maybe. Since 2016 I’ve thought we don’t need a third party since with social media anyone sufficiently popular can commandeer one of the existing ones. That’s probably true now of the Democratic Party too though it held out a little longer.

[89th]

The commandeering lately has been in the fringe direction, it seems. Would be nice to have a party that attracted the moderates (the meat of the bell curve), ideally one that is fiscally responsible, strong military, judicially conservative, invests in the American economy and infrastructure, and empathetic to the vulnerable with pragmatic programs to help those in need. In other words, maybe we need Bill Clinton again?

[jon-nyc]

If we could have an America party like that and leave the GOP to the magats and the dems to the woke I’d be happy.

[Klaus]

But is it realistic? In the American election system, a two party system is basically the only stable configuration. It would take an immense splash to replace one of the parties with a different one. Three parties of approximately equal size could only exist very transiently, I guess.

[jon-nyc]

Pretty much.

In the past the third party has subsumed a dying second party.

[Mik]

Where we are now is both parties are caricatures of their former reasonable selves. Maybe over time they will both die and be subsumed. One can only hope.

[kluurs]

I've always fantasized that a third party should be formed - with a narrow focus - to reorder the most egregious idiocy of the current system - term limits, establishment of a system that negates gerrymandering, something that limits congressional and judicial enrichment - - essentially new guardrails that inhibit governmental overreach - along with protections for the proverbial "common man/woman". One might suggest limiting the disproportionate influence of certain external actors - but then one might be accused of being anti-Christian, antisemitic, anti-woke, anti-union, or anti-something.

[Doctor Phibes]

We've already got antediluvian

[Wim]

An opportunity for the Communist Party of the USA

[89th]

@kluurs said in The America Party?:

I've always fantasized that a third party should be formed

Yeah, most guys agree... preferably a female 3rd party