I want us to have more parties. I also want us to champion a different voting count method. However, unfortunately, a Democratic party schism would threaten the strength of Democrats, what they perceive to stand for, and those values as a whole, as a result potentially leaving a rift or valley into which a united Republican party could storm and overcome in elections. We are damned if we do and damned if we do not due to the entrenched nature of our party system in my opinion.“You may have issue differences within the Democratic Party, but they become irrelevant when confronted by a Republican Party determined to turn elections into cultural conflicts,”
Allow me to translate: "Issues within a party become irrelevant when confronted by a (perceived) opposing party." Also known as why a two-party system becomes a problem. Also known as why the Left and Right are polarized. Basically, even though the Democratic party isn't meeting the needs of some of its members (which should encourage schism), because of the presence of a polarizing force, aka an opposite, an enemy, or nemesis, they group together. -Stanley Greenberg