It’s you who need a remedial course in math. Or logic. Either will do.
You’ve been employing the fallacy of False Dilemma all through this thread.
American voters are not limited to a choice between Republican or Democrat as much as that pains loyal party hacks. Your syllogism depends upon that inconvenient falsehood. And even worse for those who wish it were so, voters can’t be compelled to vote for one or the other. Such a shame. Four parties ran in 1860. Three parties ran in 1912. And there are minor parties every election cycle.
The unfortunate reality for party hacks is that they actually have to appeal to voters to win elections. It would be so much simpler if they could just badger voters into voting for them. You seem to be trying that method. But alas it doesn’t seem to be persuading many.
If the GOP doesn’t start appealing to conservatives it could go the way of the Whig Party. I’m sure that the Whigs thought that voters owed them support just as you think voters owe the GOP.
One of his cohorts posts pics of Yosemite Sam on a Dragon as political commentary ‘shaming’ me/us as well. that doesn’t seem to have worked in the GOP’s favor either.
But none of them are very swift.
It is a zero-sum game.
Thus, for now anyway, the votes are either D or R. Any vote that does not go to one or the other increases the relative size of the remainder. Thus any non-R vote increases the proportion of D to R.
I wish fervently we could get something like the Tea Party (and I seem to recall a Constitution Party a few years back) that hewed to true Conservative Principles.
But the bottom line is, for now anyway, any vote not for (R) ends up being a vote for (D). Again think of a pie chart for proportionality.
For now our battles need to be in the primaries and the Gubernatorial elections.
However, once those are done and we can say with all moral certainty we did all we could to get Conservatives on the general ticket, we MUST vote for the most VIABLE conservative person on each ballot