What good is being on the ballot if you can’t win?
If a conservative has less votes than 2 democrats, he wasn’t going to win any way.
Being on the general election ballot is important. It’s educational. It may not pay off for you, but it plants a seed in people’s minds, what sound policy should be.
If there are eight candidates running for an office, 99% of people won’t look at each one’s message. They’ll glom on to some person they think the party wants, and vote for them.
And what takes place is that the Democrats can now pick the two candidates.
Okay, let’s say a Marxist and a Conservative are on the final ballot. People may not vote for the Conservative, but they will hear their message. If things don’t go well during the next 2-6 years, the message may ring true and be influence the voter to vote differently later on.
If two Marxists on on the ballot, our message is silenced.
The voices aren’t as loud in the primaries. The left just put muzzles on Conservatives.