This comment makes me want to reiterate that I am not proposing a new party. A new party needs more than 1/3rd of voters, at least regionally, in order to be viable (that is, in order to avoid shooting itself in the foot by causing its base to waste votes). I agree that splitting an existing party is mostly the only way a new centrist party could happen.
Instead, the proposal is to organize a legible voting bloc. More like “environmentalists” than “the green party”.
The fact that new parties empirically can pop up in the middle is, however, encouraging.
This comment makes me want to reiterate that I am not proposing a new party. A new party needs more than 1/3rd of voters, at least regionally, in order to be viable (that is, in order to avoid shooting itself in the foot by causing its base to waste votes). I agree that splitting an existing party is mostly the only way a new centrist party could happen.
Instead, the proposal is to organize a legible voting bloc. More like “environmentalists” than “the green party”.
The fact that new parties empirically can pop up in the middle is, however, encouraging.