What has your rant to do with anything I said. How about you get a grip.
The country is on a terminal path. Socialism is a cancer. It can be managed and minimized if you fight it correctly, and the country can live a long fruitful life while infected...and we can keep much of our 'freedom' from incrementally eroding if we manage our politicos correctly. Maybe if we're perfect small-c Burkian conservatives, another 50 years of "no worse" than today would be a big win.
But Ron Paul and Duncan Hunter are homeopathic distractions promising a cure that cannot deliver. In fact, wasting time on them only enables Hillary etal to flourish.
You aren't going to do any good trying "teach your body a lesson" and punish it for getting cancer. And you can't do anything in today's America but choose from bad and worse.
Reagan and Goldwater were remissions, but even Reagan cut-n-ran from Beirut, etc. And Goldwater begat LBJ and a 'mandate' for the "Great Society" cancer that eats at us still.
Again, I'll give you that Hunter and (some of) Paul's plattitudes about goals and principles are great. But even if they could win, their idealism would be melted, pruned, and immolated by the massive Federal bureaucracy that the boomers have installed into the heart of America by the end of inauguration day.
And if you make a noble gamble and they lose, and hand the Dem/socialists another "mandate" then the Great Society will be eclipsed by a socialist slide like we've never seen.