this is true... but long before today's dominant parties created today's patchwork quilt of hurdles and barriers to even getting candidates listed on the ballots. Write-in is not a viable option. The largest consistent 3rd-party - the Libertarians - have now been at it 50 years... and have made the ballots in 50 states + DC for President/VP only 5 times - 1980, 1992, 1996, 2016 and 2020. They were ballot listed for lower offices in only 35 states in 2020 (I think). and are presently entitled to be ballot-listed in only 32 states for the 2022 cycle.
It's easier to reform and reshape from the inside than even qualify (get on the ballot) to challenge from the outside
No, it is not. Conservatives have been trying to reform the Republican party for decades.
And the field of battle is littered with the remains of third-party efforts... jus' sayin'
The Republican Party was created from the ashes of The Whig Party.
this is true... but long before today's dominant parties created today's patchwork quilt of hurdles and barriers to even getting candidates listed on the ballots. Write-in is not a viable option. The largest consistent 3rd-party - the Libertarians - have now been at it 50 years... and have made the ballots in 50 states + DC for President/VP only 5 times - 1980, 1992, 1996, 2016 and 2020. They were ballot listed for lower offices in only 35 states in 2020 (I think). and are presently entitled to be ballot-listed in only 32 states for the 2022 cycle.
As G. Carlin said: "It's a big club, and YOU ain't in it...." https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/964648-but-there-s-a-reason-there-s-a-reason-there-s-a-reason