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” If they won’t do the job we want them to do, we’ll hire someone who will.”

You’re forgetting that you’re in the minority. You’re not going to hire anyone especially if you don’t vote. Other people who do vote will certainly get what they want though.

My ancestors were among the first to change from other political parties to form the new Republican Party. I inherited a photograph of Abraham Lincoln which he gave to my great-grandparents during the 1860 election, because one of them was an very early Republican serving with Lincoln on the same judicial circuit. They too were in the minority, until Lincoln was elected. They spent very little time going from the little recognized minority to the majority. This rapid change occurred because the new Republicans offered a new opportunity desired by the voters, which the old party leaderships neglected to heed.

No one but you said anything about not voting. That is a strawman argument. When I want Obamacare, I'll vote for Obama, which is never. When I want Romneycare, I'll vote for Romney, which is.... While you and others vote to put into power a man who authored Romneycare, I and others of like mind will invite everyone to find some future candidates who will respect the Constitution and let us take care of ourselves. Others may join, or they can continue down the current path to the virtual elimination of the Constitution's actual protections. If we fail, it will not be for a lack of our trying, but it will be for a lack of everyone else not trying.

I know Republicans who have spent the past 80 years compromising their values in the vain hope the Republican Party would change its ways and do more to restore the Constitution and individual liberties, mostly to no avail. How many more decades are you willing to wait for the elite to stop changing the rules and excluding you from the decisionmaking? How much longer will you aid and abet the digging of this hole any deeper through the Constitution and the Republic?