interesting poll in NYT Op Ed section "Quiz: If America Had Six Parties, Which Would You Belong To?"
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/09/08/opinion/republicans-democrats-parties.htmlNot sure if there is a paywall for this. I came out in the Progessive party, way down in the lower left corner.
America’s two-party system is broken. Democrats and Republicans are locked in an increasingly destructive partisan struggle that has produced gridlock and stagnation on too many critical issues — most urgently, the pandemic and climate change.
There is no reasonable or timely way to fix this broken system. But there is an alternative: more parties.
It is not so hard to imagine a six-party system — and it would not even require a constitutional amendment.
The description of how to get to such a system is below. But first, whether you are a Democrat, Republican or Independent (or other), in the 20-question quiz below, you can discover which new party would be the best fit for you.
(then there is a click quiz - no way to copy it - and you have to take it to see the six - I will redo it and list them)
The six are Progressive, American Labor Party, New Liberal Party, Growth and Opportunity Party, Patriot Party and Christian Conservative Party
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THE REPUBLICAN PARTY IS BROKEN. Can't make it seem healthy, but can do the usual fake equalization with the RW slimeballs to subvert confidence in us.
As for the question: Lucky me, I'm a mainstream liberal (left margin), and I'd be in the large liberal party. 
There are real reasons Americans form two large parties (one conservative and one liberal) and extras don't do well. Political scientists explain them. It's been a very consistent pattern, and the NYT's RW agents know it.
So, I don't fear that I'd have to float independent, hoping for a better choice than one of the smaller parties that formed compromising alliances in order to achieve any power. Or have to watch my small party evolving and reforming around different leaders and issues as voters and fickle enthusiasms come and go. Or watch my party maintain its integrity while seldom being able to affect anything.
That they have is just one of the media's Big Lies.
The people who claim to hold Democratic Party values but to be unable to vote for ("corrupt, corporatist, RW" ) Democrats do that every election, usually claiming loyalty to a fringe candidate who can't win then noisily pretending to "break" away. Same small %s, same people, with more of the type coming along to replace those who age out. That's not fracture because opposition is their reason for existence, but every election media call them a "wing" of our party.
Each election some wobblies shift from one party to another and voter participation goes up and down. But that's not fracture either, no matter how much hostile media make of it.
Of course, the wobblies do matter in this unstable era when elections are typically won by dangerously narrow margins. But that's because of deep Republican-Democratic Party divisions that create strong, typically lifelong party adherence, the very opposite of fracture.
As you say, they've been at their Big Lies for a long time, but the stakes have never been this high.
Regardless of how many parties you want to include -- hell, why not just consider all voters their own party and let's have ~160 million parties!!! 
-- in the end, a majority of them will have to come together to form a governing party. Having more parties does absolutely nothing, other than hurt the current majority party (Democrats) since it just divides us up and the stalwart Trump Republicans stay united and vote together and would win even more than they already do with their minority party.
