[Onawa]

As long as our voting system is "first past the post", it will be nigh impossible for a third party to make any significant headway. IMO Citizens United and first past the post are the two main issues holding the US back from any kind of significant overhaul or change.

[RunningDroid]

There's been some progress on killing Citizens United:

https://transparentelection.org/

https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2025/08/07/transparent-elect...

[wredcoll]

First past the post doesn't meaningfull affect primaries and that's where major change could happen.

Hell, that's what trump did. He was a third outside party and won the republican primary.

Bernie sanders came fairly close to doing the same thing.

[LocalH]

> He was a third outside party and won the republican primary.

That's not "third party" quite like you think it is