Will Libertarians and Tea Party merge to form a larger 3rd party in the coming years?

[Jim S]

Many are beginning to regurgitate the force-feeding they receive in school, that any/all government is good, and that any/all laws are for the good of everyone.
Seeing laws passed by people that don't read them, yet have received a payment for doing so is revealing.
A lobbyist for the wealthy can insert a law which benefits certain people, almost exclusively (a sprinkling for the common folk is played-up as the purpose), and punishes any/all competition,
creating a quasi-legal monopoly.
Or they can avoid the dog & pony show, and go straight to the mandate, yet only from a particular (certified by them) vendor as an "attachment".
I see (albeit not now, but eventually), the "logos" of R or D becoming a virtual pariah, among informed voters, signifying that these people are but Puppets to (owned & operated by) a higher power, neither of who's complete agenda is worth a Damn.
These nasty, overboard rivals using disagreement as an excuse to do nothing (but collect paychecks & give themselves raises), and swing the door ALL THE WAY one way or the other every few years, so as to effectively keep us confused, starting over & in limbo our entire lives.
I see chronic weight loss in their immediate future, as soon as more others catch on.
Which leaves a "market" that neither serves (as they say). After 75 Million people of voting age didn't vote in the last election. That's (inconvenient truth) more than either candidate received.
It's inevitable, that more "options" will arrive.
The old game of invoking the old names & ways of previous particular party greats as an avenue to get in, are fading. Here's a hot-tip ... they're dead, their parties have flip-flopped & mutated.
The world is a different place now, and this "newbie" (no matter how hard they try), is not them.
Saying or believing there are only two choice is reminiscent of what a Hispanic co-worker told me about what a new-fish in the prison system gets asked on their first day ...
"Blood on my knife, or _hit on my _ick?" (one could use that analogy for American politics)

Neither, punk.