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If you actually kept doing that you'd have not only much to be saved, but you'd eventually have a good option if following the rest of what I advise.
You types literally never have workable solutions. Your suggestions are all impractical hail marys because you refuse to acknoledge the actual solution is slow, and uncomfortable.
The two-party system is like two competing loggers who keep abusing tree chopping. One may be slower than the other but at the end the day the forest will disappear . The damage of a bad administration may need multiple good administrations to repair all the damage.
Please tell me why would any of the two parties listen to any single issue you have if you will going to vote for them again and again anyway
Yes , making a viable 3rd party solution is very slow and unconfortable
I literally explained at the very start of this exactly how it works. You vote in more progressives into the party to change its goals. The goals of the DNC are what you hate.
The 2 party system, you hate too, and thats reasonable, but its the system you have, and you're not getting away from it within a lifetime.
No. Its nonsensical, childish, and utterly dangerous for all the people you will be sacrificing just to fail to accomplish your goal.
Its an inherent flaw of 2 party systems. They do not support true 3rd parties because they do not have proportional representation. The end result of winner takes all/first past the post systems is such that you cannot simply make a third party, especially where the established party against the side you'll be weakening explicitly plans to completely remove your ability to vote.
This is obvious. You keep wanting to scream and be angry at people for acknowledging the system as it is and not simply throwing tantrums because it isnt how they wish it to be.
You will die too, not just the marginalized people you are so willing to throw away if you allow for republicans to gain a almost certain permanent rein, which is what supporting a third party would do.
The best thing you could do is actually to prop up third parties splitting off of republicans if you actually wanted to see a change.