This should diminish the inclination toward lesser-evilism, and move these voters to leverage their power for all that it's worth. A self-aware, organized Western Green bloc could be the key to move the most powerful nation on earth toward a Green policy revolution. Western Green Parties could set the pace by taking positions that the Democrats would have to match, lest they suffer defeat in states they must win. A case working its way through the U.S. Supreme Court, a New Party challenge to a Wisconsin law forbidding fusion candidacies, could strengthen the hand of third parties yet further. Under fusion, multiple parties can nominate the same candidate.
Fusion is a key reason why New York State has active and powerful Liberal and Conservative parties.
If the Supreme Court rules for the New Party, fusion would become the law in the 40 states where it is not today. All this is not to say that Green parties in the Western states purely exist to move the major parties. They have a life of their own, and have good prospects for electoral successes of their own in local and state elections in coming years. But they also occupy a peculiarly strategic position in national politics. If they become aware of their own power and are willing to use it, they can move the nation, and the planet, toward profound change in a Green direction.