Well yes, that's how you get 4% of otherwise Dem voters to not simply vote against the opposition. They would need to have already exited the dominant strategic voting paradigm, likely being socialists.
This will already happen if we are in any way successful at growing the ranks. Principled socialists will not vote for bourgeois politicians. If we can get those numbers up, up, up, it'll cause exactly this crisis.
The idea of the third party centers around what it even is and whether it resolves the crisis. Don't assume it will work out analogous to 1910s Russia. The mass psychology is different, as are relations to production. But a third party will establish a new political pole and would hopefully derive from that dedicated 4% + their previously nonvoting allies. More importantly, it would be forced into existence by the crisis and Dem reaction would be difficult to predict from our current vantage. A Dem party that can no longer win ever will have no ability to change ballot access or fptp rules and will therefore adopt the same status as a third party accordingly.
It's difficult to predict much more, but the logic of the crisis is sound if that critical and modest number of comrades can be established. The only question is whether it's a viable strategy that doesn't simply lead to a genocide of the left.
Well yes, that's how you get 4% of otherwise Dem voters to not simply vote against the opposition. They would need to have already exited the dominant strategic voting paradigm, likely being socialists.
This will already happen if we are in any way successful at growing the ranks. Principled socialists will not vote for bourgeois politicians. If we can get those numbers up, up, up, it'll cause exactly this crisis.
The idea of the third party centers around what it even is and whether it resolves the crisis. Don't assume it will work out analogous to 1910s Russia. The mass psychology is different, as are relations to production. But a third party will establish a new political pole and would hopefully derive from that dedicated 4% + their previously nonvoting allies. More importantly, it would be forced into existence by the crisis and Dem reaction would be difficult to predict from our current vantage. A Dem party that can no longer win ever will have no ability to change ballot access or fptp rules and will therefore adopt the same status as a third party accordingly.
It's difficult to predict much more, but the logic of the crisis is sound if that critical and modest number of comrades can be established. The only question is whether it's a viable strategy that doesn't simply lead to a genocide of the left.