Well, for starters, a FR third party would have the effect of electing Hillary Clinton as president; and, she would waste little time in dismantling Free Republic, and repressing all other forms of dissent.
(Just think of how astoundingly few votes decided the last two presidential elections, and you can visualize a third party splitting the GOP votes into a landslide loss.)
It's no more complicated than that.
>> (Just think of how astoundingly few votes decided the last two presidential elections, and you can visualize a third party splitting the GOP votes into a landslide loss.)
It’s no more complicated than that.<<
It would appear that even Ralph Nader now gets the point that in an evenly divided country with a two party system, the side that splits, loses.
I’d hate to be dumber or more obstinate than Ralph.