“our political system is set up so that it naturally favors two parties. But that doesn’t mean that they have to be the Democrat and Republican parties. It just means that if a third part ever gains traction, it will be at the expense of one of the others, which will fade into obscurity.”
I agree. And the reason our political system is like that is because that’s how the two parties organized it.
But, as you say, a successful third party will not remain a third party, it will replace the Republican Party (as the Republicans replaced the Whigs).
“But, as you say, a successful third party will not remain a third party, it will replace the Republican Party”
And once they replace it they will become as corrupt as the pubs were because that’s the way the system works.