Oh.. I think you found our name for the party!!

I'm not sure that systems with multiple political parties work any better than our awful two-party system. Your idea that voters have been "brainwashed into thinking that voting for a third-party candidate is a wasted vote" makes little sense when you consider that third-party candidates never win, though their votes along with the non-votes may cost someone else the election. I wonder if the Green and Libertarian party voters along with the non-voters are happy with Trump?

@Shouldbefishing I'm pretty sure that 6% of the vote won't win any elections, so yes, I'd say they (and presumably you) wasted your vote and may have given us Trump instead.

Personal story and from Canada so things are a bit different.
I one time wasted my vote on the Green Party.
It was a new party and I decided I wanted to check them out, as I was not impressed with either of the major parties doing enough about our environment. I was already hearing about climate change (being a science geek etc) before it was well known.
So I paid my membership and voted for them. My candidate in my area didn't even get close (less then 5 percent) , but across Canada there was an impressive amount of votes.
one candidate did get in!
in the long run they only had a small percentage of the votes , but after that you could see the two major political parties made some major changes to their "green" policies and all of them did go more green.

I don't think our votes were wasted that year..

I wouldn't vote for them now.. but I think they are a great example of how a small movement can have large effects.

@icolan corporations are running this country. The redistribution of wealth from the lower classes, the working people. Any solution the keeps corporations in power is not a solution. We have to begin by getting money out of politics.

@icolan that is true. Any party, any movement, can be taken in a bad direction with bad leadership. The concept should be a grassroots movement that refuses to be influenced by corporate money.

Workers party sounds socialist which I think scares most Americans lol..
Better way to say it is democracy that is free from corporate intervention..
IE: the PACS and super PACS in America are a huge problem for democracy in America.. (Canada to a much lesser extent)

@hippydog definitely corporate control of our politicians is the problem. What would you call the new party?

@Bobbyzen sanity party lol

What can we all agree on.? start with that..
Can I assume all of us at least agree that democracy , freedom of the press, Equality , etc are good things?
start at the basics..
we already have a basic guideline
[agnostic.com]

I'm from Canada, so it's a little different here.. fringe parties are not super unusual..
But even in America I have noticed things seem to be more extreme.. no one is looking at the moderates as it's own block.. I guess it would give people something more specific to vote for rather then taking the "other " with the major parties..