“Now why is it people vote for Democrats again?”
Mainly the 19th Amendment, but on our side it’s because their local Republican isn’t ‘pure enough’ for them (so they sit out elections to let Democrats win).
I have heard several folks around here talk about Republicans staying home—but every serious study I have seen show that nonvoters have ideological views almost identical to folks that do vote.
What the nonvoters have in common is that politics is low on their priority.
To be blunt—the most successful tactic to get them to vote is to terrify them about the evils of the other side.
Both parties recognize this—and that is why the discourse of politics is negative ads and hostility.
It does not work that well—but it is better than nothing so they keep doing it.
Just an addition to my post...
The most practical way to get non voters to vote (and there have been studies on this as well) is to work through organizations where they are participating.
That generates peer pressure which is reasonably effective.
In the Texas State Legislature, they have a Republican majority, but those Republicans you say conservatives complain are not pure enough, have given the Democrats power, because they are not with the conservative Republicans.
So, perhaps you do not fully understand that some Republicans are indeed not worth voting for. What good are these Republicans, if they continually go against the majority of the base?
Can you explain how these Republicans help the cause?
Perhaps the problems lie within the Republican structure, or perhaps it is people like yourself that keeps returning these people to office because you only think that having the majority is enough to get what is needed enacted to turn around the ship.
If only that were the reality.
How about voting for the other Republican running in the primary ,instead of sending the same disappointing legislator back to yet again stymie the conservative agenda.
The definition of insanity is to keep trying the same thing over & over again and expecting a different result this time.
Perhaps with a new candidate, those people just might come vote, instead of sitting out the election. You know already, that they will not come out to vote for the incumbent who repeatedly betrays them & their vote.