New progressive Party

[mileslunn]

It would just ensure the GOP wins the white house in 2020 so dumb idea.  For good or for ill the US is a two party system and until that changes it makes more sense to work within the parties.  True it probably would make more sense to have 3 or 4 parties but then the electoral college could result in big wins even if most didn't want one so if the US moved away from the two party system you would probably need to move to run off elections between the top two.

[mileslunn]

Also... did anyone catch that "progressives" are somehow 66% of the US population? 

A progressive is apparently someone who either voted for Bernie in the primary or didn't vote at all in the general.

Progressives are at best slightly north of 50% and most likely more likely in the high 20s to low 30s as a lot of Democrat voters are centrists not progressives.  Only a handful of developed countries are progressives the majority (Canada is perhaps one of the few where I live), but the US is definitely not one.  Conservatives aren't a majority either, but there are slightly more conservatives than progressives although the gap is not as big as it was 30 years ago.

[mileslunn]

I came to this thread to talk about a Puerto Rican third-party if they become a state

Then the GOP in congress should no longer block the admission as a state

Agreed, but considering how much gerrymandering they do at the state level I suspect it's mostly about politics.  They know full well Puerto Rico will likely be a solid blue state thus their reason for denying it admission.  If it was a solid red state they would have approved it by now.