[fire and forget]

If enough of us who hate income taxes and other government intrusions on our property rights vote "on principle" for candidates other than Republicans, our nation will rapidly decline into a Marxist regime. Democrats will handily win all three branches of government. What remains of the Constitution will be shredded and our nation will deteriorate into something between Socialist Europe (which for Europe has been an enduring condition) and Germany right before WWII.

Conservatives as a rule are a lot brighter than the average voter and most weigh this small, inevitable consequence when choosing ever compromising Republicans over strict constitutionalists. Most elected Republicans are of our view. They simply haven't yet had sufficient numbers and electoral support to ram through the sort of changes we all want. I'm frustrated too, but we can't throw the baby out with the bathwater.

[wistful]

I disagree. Taking the path you suggest will never bring about the change you desire. There are too many compromises and too many compromisers.

All socialist countries eventually collapse. Vote not for compromise but for your own integrity and self respect. If the commies keep winning the country will soon collapse as the USSR did, and be reborn. Then, things can be remade the way you want.

This, rather than unprincipled compromise which prolongs the misery, is probably the shortest way to the objective we all seek.