Imo, and I fully expect to get beaten about the head and shoulders for saying this...
Voting for the “lesser of two evils” does nothing except reinforce the evil on both sides.
Voting for an established GOPer these days serves no purpose in the fight against the destructionists. All it does do is discredit the anti-destructionist side of the political divide and provide the “they did it too!” excuse to the destructionists, since our current GOP damn sure will do it too.
Dishonorable is dishonorable. Cowardly is cowardly. Absolute lack of integrity is absolute lack of integrity. The letter denoting political party after the name makes nearly do difference any more.
Besides all that, it is already far too late for a peaceful solution. The destructionists know this to be true. This is why the constant and aggressively contra constitutional campaign to not only disarm the population, but so twist and distort the meaning of all other parts of the constitution is ramping up so heavily.
Thanks Grimmy. The opposite is true — not showing up means that Republican voters (because, duh, we have two major parties in the country) are vanishing as the country shifts to the left, and the next go-round the candidates are running even farther to the left. Failure to vote, or making a protest vote (sic) for a minor party is the same thing as voting for the Democrats. The Demwits know this, count on it, and part of the strategy are various illegal schemes to target areas where their incumbent, or ours, is in trouble.
Amen.