Andrew Yang's new 3rd party will be called 'The Forward Party,' according to his forthcoming book

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28. Or, untried candidates can harness ignorance and confusion

of well meaning voters to use ranked choice to become a spoiler, perhaps even competitive!, by drawing off votes from Democrats, and to harness the hostile passions of LW authoritarians, RWers, and antgonistic populist ttypes to enable them flood into Democratic elections to defeat Democratic candidates.

Remember the horrible mistakes of 2016? They're still devastating our nation and could still kill our democracy, and with it purge progressivism from government. For possiby the rest of our lives. A RW police state full of poor, oppressed, exploited people, would be a very inadequate replacement for national healthcare and taxpayer-funded universal K-12 education. (Yes, that's in danger.)

Or just look at Kyrsten Sinema. She developed a public identity by starting in the Green (a third) Party, drawing a lot of people who'd vote for a bag of potpourri if it ran against Democrats, displayed some conservative but little known attitudes, and persuaded Democrats who didn't do their homework/were drawn to "outsider," nonestablishment candidates to reject Democrats with proven records to elect her. (To the county commission? No -- as one of their 2 U.S. SENATORS! ). Now she's taking money from Big Pharm and trying to keep us from adding medications with price controls to Medicare. This would NOT have happened if they'd elected a legislator with a proven record in office, instead of a deceiver. HUGE lesson.