> The right is the better of two evils until we get a full restart. Negative, voting for evil is still voting for evil. Third party does two things 1. forces the parties to infight 2. splits the vote and therefore accelerates the process of delegitimization of the regime two-party front. It does this by making them look ineffective and disorganized. We can get there quicker by supporting third parties. It breaks the national left-right-left-right (party) lockstep program. I know you want to hold onto the belief in hope. But if you want there to be hope, if you want a *real chance* at fixing things, you have to stop voting for the *parties killing hope*. Their legitimacy is limited to our participation in the two parties. Our participation should be limited to any tactic or third party that messes up that process. More generally, I advice you not merely to vote for a third party, but to *start your own*. Yes really. This gives you an assurance that the party is not co-opted. Voting is an illusion, but the public doesn't know that, so by offering them alternatives, you undermine the very system. This is the trend that needs to happen, as many non-mainstream parties form as possible, salami-slicing away control first at the local level, like termites eating away at the foundation. Many of these will be bought, threatened, or simply co-opted and infiltrated, but as long as *lots* of these parties form, enough will exist that the regime won't be able to go after all of them. And because politics attracts the most self-aggrandizing, even in third parties, eventually the cunning among them will realize they have a common enemy and start to form coalitions against the dominate parties. This puts the party system under tension, which means they'll have to be more public in their cooperation to be effective. In order to do this without alienating their bases they will begin a program of *civic nationalism* (probably not in name though), and *depolarization*. At this point we will have to *massively* ramp up dissent, and push hyperpolarization on the public, so the civic nationalist trend fails, leading to a large scale spike in widespread and extreme alienation against the federal parties. The key thing here is the *political* (nonviolent) equivalent to the strategy of tension. Only instead of the government pushing it on us, we manufacture the political circumstances (a groundswell of numerous new third parties), that *push it on the government*, so congress and the intelligence agencies are *forced* to make moves, publicly, that lead to the final dissolution of public trust or cooperation. At that point the dissolution and balkanization of the u.s. is guaranteed, baked in, and seeded into the social fabric. From there it will be a matter of reconsolidating key regions into an effective force, namely the blue ridge and appalachians, and using that as a wedge to prevent DC itself from being able to reconsolidate, until at which time the regime fails out right, and is absorbed. Only then can the u.s. be brought back together, under a weaker convention then federalism.