Absolutely,
yov. My question is indeed, where is the party of everyone else?
I will apologize, I unfairly bristled at the implication ( just me reading to much into it I guess ) of "your vote for a Democrat didn't matter, centrist you, us Real Democrats really don't care that you and yours helped elect Democratic candidates in the 2018 election, we now want all those candidates to fall in line with what we Real Democrats want". We just got done electing Donald J. Trump with the help of a wave of non-traditional support who was tired of the previous Democratic administration and we're now living his base forcing everybody into their lane. That pendulum will probably next swing to the left, who will again hijack everybody while pretending that now
they have the mandate of the people.
Fair enough, strongly left and strongly right people. While you're the only choices out there, you can pretend people chose you. But I want representation too. The center may from time to time cast votes for the only options ( strongly left, strongly right, as it goes nowadays ) just because they're sick of the previous strongly left / strongly right, but in the end that means they don't get to vote for candidates that actually represent them because For Reasons we get only two parties, and the primaries for those are increasingly dominated by the far right ( and apparently, far left ) fringes. As moderates get disgusted with either party and go Independent, they also get disenfranchised in the primaries, and so the two parties' candidates self-select for the extremes, I guess? If so, that's just an unrepresentative mess. I'm tired of holding my nose to vote, too

What would it take to break the 2-party stranglehold? Could both parties' registration can go down into the teens, percentage-wise, and we'd still be stuck with their candidates? Where's the line?