On: Ted Cruz Ends His Campaign for President

[gallonofmilk]

or promote a moderate third party since most people are moderate anyways...

[Grishnakh → gallonofmilk]

Won't work, it's impossible.

A first-past-the-post voting system like ours always guarantees a two-party system. Once in a while there may be an anomaly, but in the end it devolves back to two parties. It's impossible to have a stable 3-party system with FPTP voting.