The bourgeois already have two parties, and there will only be a third one if they feel they need it. The parties that exist now are essentially lifestyle brands. Politics as a thing in which average people can engage in and effect change, is dead in the United States at the institutional level. The concept of engaging at the institutional level through a third party is essentially dead on arrival.

Electoral politics is largely just spectacle to keep adherents to the 2 lifestyle brand system occupied, and massive money making endeavors, where bourgeois entites pass money back and forth to each other.

The third parties that pop up from time to time are either right wing (libertarians, reform), grifts (forward, people's party), or unitentional at best sheepdog deadends (greens).

This is all before you get the point of realizing that "independent" in the American political context is really just "massively confused and politically illiterate, but often confidently so." Which isn't even their fault because thats by design. That is how the ruling class wants people to be.

So 3rd parties are a dead end. The dream of an independent uniting the country against the "establishment duoploy", or anything about "common sense consensus" is something grifters will continue to milk for as long as it's profitable.

Organizing outside of electoral politics is the only truely revolutionary choice; the only choice that commits to the long game that people wanting a better world in the imperial core are in for. Because there is no short cut. I wish there was! But those things are dead ends