Excellent reply, David. But the point I am making is not that we must have a third party. The point I am making is that we are politically repressed and yet pretend there is nothing wrong.
The specific third party, I could not care less about it.
A basic color copier has red, blue, yellow and black ink to deliver us any kind of printed outcome, all colors of the rainbow. No one would accept a printer that is run on red and blue ink only. Yet politically, we are asleep, not rejecting the bad results.
Repression of yellow caused the Red party to turn Orangey, but the deeper reality is that our political elite does not care all that much about us.
I did the calculations for the US Senate at one point, and I found that on average 60% picked the winner.
That means that what we can consider the majority in the Senate as based on 30% (plus one seat) of the voters.
I hope you can read this as structurally correct: Neither party has to care about 70% of the voters, because they need just that very specific 30% to win the majority of the seats. That is how lacking yellow causes a lot of dissatisfaction.
The USA's political seesaw has its tipping point at 60% of the votes. Translation: at 30% for the win.
In Sweden, the Netherlands and Spain, the political seesaws are found with 100% of the votes. Translation: their tipping point occur at 50% for the win.
We can change the situation in the USA -- US Constitution approved -- but it requires us to see full color because achieving the change has a strange way to go about (it involves local elections as the spearpoint for change). Many folks see red and blue only and have never learned to see yellow, green, or orange. The specific truths are not on their radar.
Thank you for the link about the Forward Party. I enjoyed it. In a two-party system, the third party can only be successful when eating up one of the other parties. The transition will appear to be a hay-day for democracy, but it will revert back to a two-party system soon after -- until we follow the right path to improve the two-party system (which the Founding Fathers never intended, they were definitively 3D in their thinking, Enlightened).
