Thread:Comments:Reform Party of the United States nominates fitness model Andre Barnett for president/.../reply (3)

Precisely. Nothing against Barnett himself, as I honestly know nothing about him; but the fact remains: the "third party" vote being split between multiple other small, insignificant 'parties' means electoral impotence for third parties.

What they need to do, is organize a third 'supra-party', dedicated to pushing for voting reform (and only concerned with voting reform, to maximize appeal). All participating third parties would fund and endorse candidates from this supra-party. In U.S. politics, there is no 'strength in numbers', and the plethora of separate competing third parties is actually a weakness; there is only strength in mass in U.S. Politics.

The only viable way that third parties can compete in America is to band together. The fact that they have failed to do so yet shows an astonishing stupidity. It may sound like a bad joke to imagine the Communist Party USA cooperating with the Libertarian Party, but honestly it's the only way that any of the third parties can have any influence over affairs.

And don't ever count on any of the two major parties pushing for voting reform, for obvious reasons.