Although Third Parties Typically Win Attention by Giving a Voice

Although third parties typically win attention by giving a voice to social and economic concerns or protests that the major parties either ignore or overlook, those same major parties have more often than not eliminated the third parties' causes by:

A) leading campaigns to discredit the parties and their cause as radical and un-American.
B) conducting scientific surveys and leading focus groups to discover how to respond to the concerns that led to third-party popularity.
C) absorbing or co-opting the third party's programs and bringing their supporters into their folds.
D) stifling the First Amendment rights of third-party leaders through congressional action and hostile committee investigations.