[EricT.]

However, in the real world adults have to make decessions on the bases of reality, not on how they would like things to be.

These so-called adults step away from a 15-foot-long alligator and stand next to a 12-foot-long alligator and call it "reasonable." It never occurs to them to get out of the swamp.

Unfortunately, short-sightedness is epidemic among Americans.

[C. Edmund Wright]

that analogy is absurd. But I’ll help you out.

Choice A: a 20 foot alligator, with its mouth over our head.

Choice B: a 6 foot alligator a quarter of a mile away.

Both suck, but they are not in any way shape or form proportionately similar.
Grow up.

[Fuzz]

“It never occurs to them to get out of the swamp.”

There is no getting out of the swamp, it’s all swamp.

[ALPAPilot]

Unfortunately, short-sightedness is epidemic among Americans.

The task:

Convince good conservatives to run.

Elect them in the primaries.

The elect them in the general election.

To achieve this, short-sighted americans MUST be convinced of the merits. This task, to convince Americans to vote for conservatives, is not made easier by leaving the GOP.