After-1900 WI: All US Minor Parties Merge?

Here's a fun one for the post-election season. Tin says it all. What if all the 'minor' parities in the United States were to have a giant inter-party convention, hash out their differences*, and come together as some sort of über-Third Party? What is the name of this party, its symbolism? How well does it do, and where?

* Obviously, several of these groups are never going to get along. Asides from the Neo-Nazi's being hated by everyone, I could see both the Constitutionalists and the Libertarians walking out of any sort of meeting that I'm proposing, and taking many of the smaller conservative-leaning parties with them - though they may afterward reform into a Conservative Party parallel to what I'm proposing; and a four-party system is better than the current two.

Here's a partial list of all active minor national US parties;

America First Party
American Party
America's Independent Party
Boston Tea Party
Communist Party of the United States of America
Constitution Party
Florida Whig Party
Green Party
Independence Party of America
Libertarian Party
Moderate Party
Modern Whig Party
National Socialist Movement
New American Independent Party
Objectivist Party
Party for Socialism and Liberation
Peace and Freedom Party
Pirate Party of the United States
Progressive Labor Party
Prohibition Party
Reform Party of the United States of America
Socialist Equality Party
Socialist Party USA
Socialist Workers Party
United States Marijuana Part
Unity Party of America
Workers Party
Working Families Party
 
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All the parites woukd need to sacrifice their views to such a degree that they would essentially just be a worse funded copy of the Democrats/Republicans ironically parties like the Greens or the Libertarians probably actually do better by being on the fringe of the Democrats and Republicans respectively.
 
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TheRed is right; parties this diverse cannot all merge properly. You'd do a lot better with something like this to sort out these parties into "left of the Democrats" and "right of the Republicans," and try making a four-party system out of it (or possibly a five-party system, depending on how many centrist parties there are. I see the "Moderate Party," but I don't know enough about the exceedingly minor groups on that list to say if they'll have any backup.)

You're also correct that certain of these parties are absolutely, positively toxic, and would be thrown out of either of the superminor parties, were they to attempt to join.
 
You missed the CPUSA and the Maoist Revolutionary Communist Party. :D Yes, they are real parties too...
 
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