PS, think this is all wishful thinking?

The FDFR Party ran a $0 race for U.S. Senator in Washington state and garnered 2,600 votes

The threshold to make it to out of the jungle primary was only about 20,000 votes

www.FDFRParty.com

Oh boy -- there's so much more to the concept, but who has this much time to read beyond these gajillion initial posts?

Go ahead and noodle on this for a bit

More to come...

Money isn't everything when starting from scratch with a fresh idea

It's a bit like a startup company, minus the obnoxious tech bros and horrible influence of soulless VCs

That's ok! Voters can always still vote for a D or R candidate if they see fit

But now voters have REAL options

The FDFR Party (really two independent parties at that point) doesn't have loyalty tests, doesn't resort to nepotism and doesn't have an establishment that needs to be catered to

This unique path of creating a third and fourth party together mean candidates and voters can feel confident

Confident in opening the door for fellow centrists, without disproportionately harming the lesser of two evils that they usually vote for

If the two parties don't grow at the same rate...

Once there are a few successful FDFR Party campaigns, and there surely will be after the November 2026 election, the risk is reduced for candidates to switch from D or R

Then it's easier to get some fundraising and better candidates and slowly reach bigger races

But local politics is where your vote matters most anyway

You can best make change where your vote has the biggest influence with a vote for an FDFR candidate

Smaller local races don't generate the insane campaign finances of federal races, so good ideas are more likely to beat big wallets

Every previous third party effort aimed too high, focusing on the Presidential race first

The "Ground Up" approach is needed, building a base at the local and state levels that help foster support at the federal level

Doesn't mean someone can't run for Congress as an FDFR candidate right away

This is Fundamental Problem 2 in breaking the two-party system

Everyone wants to go big and have an independent run for President

But again, ballot access initiatives setup by D's and R's are designed to virtually eradicate any hope of a viable third party President

Coalitions are fundamental in most functional democracies

This just means that D's and R's are required to work with centrists to get stuff done

That means real compromise and real action

The catch: the FDFR Party concept doesn't aspire to Presidential candidates...yet

So what if only a tiny number of people breakaway?

The Electoral Map is often decided by fractions of a percentage point in some states

Every vote counts

But more importantly, now we have elected candidates that aren't subservient to the two corrupt parties

This means coalitions are needed

This creates two "Democrat lite" and "Republican lite" parties

Could one be bigger than the other?

Again, simple math says one of the new parties "takes" more votes from D or R

But by enticing people from both sides to breakaway from the two parties, it creates two lasting alternatives for all

Say that again?

After the first election cycle, the two parties adopt clear and distinct mission statements from each other, with one leaning more to the left and one more to the right

Candidates, and voters, can move to the party of their choice...

Wouldn't a voter still feel like they're hurting the party they sorta like and giving an edge to the party they hate?

Americans can continue voting for whoever they think is best

But a vote to the middle doesn't have to be a lost vote

Because the two FDFR parties are shuffled after year one...

FDFR candidates run with a commitment to Four Agreements: four concrete issues that they are willing to compromise on

A candidate could be 90% aligned with the Democratic agenda or Republican agenda, but if they can give just 10% of ground to the other side, then real change can happen

Candidates who truly commit to being centrists will be recruited to join FDFR Apollo and FDFR Artemis

They'll be randomly assigned to one of the two subparties, meaning neither new party is "Moderate Democrat" or "Moderate Republican"

But who's really a centrist?

The creation of a fourth party simultaneously with a third can help alleviate this problem

But who wants to support two new parties?

Enter: The FDFR Party

You know what D and R represent in politics, and you get two guesses what the F's stand for, but you'll only need one

So how does it work?

If there's one new party, one of the two existing parties will be hurt more than the other -- it's simple math

It might be close, but someone gets hurts more

Neither party will risk being hurt more than the other, so they both fight with restrictions on ballot access

This is Fundamental Problem 1