Maybe that’s what some people thought. But you don’t stop the establishment by giving it a new set of people to push around.
Unfortunately for a 3rd party unless they can actually get around 20% of the seats they’re just more people to get pushed around. The rules of congress are very carefully constructed to divide the chamber into the majority party and the minority party and anybody else is just out of luck. If they can put together a big enough block to actually start effecting the passage of legislation, then they got something, but without that they’re just audience sitting on stage.
Because the 2 parties are unfixable and unwork-with-able, this is where the anarchists have it right. You help the corruption eat itself and take the pain, or condemn your kids to worse.
Any good suggestions? For myself, I will vote for R’s if they have stood up to the establishment, that’s it.
That list is pretty short, Sarah, Cruz, Mike Le, there are more, but those are the obvious. I would also consider 3rd party, but only again if they had a history of standing up to the establishment. Last I will vote D to simply stop the republicans, and to take away a vote from someone who erroneously believes they are voting the lesser of two evils.