You are looking at this from the top down instead of the bottom up. You have to start local, and I don’t mean “grass roots”. I mean getting progressive leaders into place in your city and state elected positions. Then, you work up from there. It isn’t a quick and easy thing that you can just do with some signatures. There has to be a foundation in place, or it’s just a waste of time and effort. It takes decades to do this, not one election cycle. That’s why I really dislike this mindset of “I feel abandoned by X,” because maybe you have been, but there isn’t anything you can do about it aside from hold them accountable. The effort you put into starting a whole new party is better spent getting your local progressives together on letter writing, protests, and other acts that will draw attention at the local level.

If you think the GOP just “got big” all of the sudden, you haven’t been paying attention to the last 50 years of politics. They’ve been playing the long game, and now the are reaping the rewards. You won’t win anything with short term goals and nothing to back them up. You have to do what they did, and start now. Then, maybe when your kids or grandkids can vote, they’ll have a progressive leader to vote for. There is no easy road. The only ways out of this now are through long term strategy or short term violence, and both of those come at a cost that most aren’t willing to pay. Anything else is wishful thinking.

Go to your public library and rent a movie for free.

Here’s the thing. Would I trust any of them to have my back? Nope. Not a single one. So, yeah, they want to change? Good for them, they are welcome to join the right side of history. I’m not ever going to trust them, though. I won’t ever believe that they’ll vote for the best interests of the species. They can live out their lives trying to be a better person and doing the right thing. That makes them an average human. If the suffering they cause comes out to a net zero by the end, then they get to have a grave I won’t piss on. However, if the only way they can be a good person is to blame someone else for lying to them, instead of assuming any personal responsibility, I don’t have much faith they are gonna break even.

Blame anyone but yourself. That’s the American way!

Pretty sure this person is just talking out of their ass. I found one source from four years ago that showed a price difference of about a buck to manufacture. Yes, that is more expensive, but passing that dollar onto the consumer for some USB-C ports on a motherboard seems pretty reasonable, and by now I’m sure that gap has decreased significantly.