I guess you missed all the conversations here on FR in the weeks leading up to Election Day last year, when I had to sit here and try to figure out what exactly Freepers were trying to accomplish by voting for Donald Trump for President and then leaving the ballot blank for House and Senate races.
You and I have had a conversation before, quite enjoyably in fact.
That you think you "have to sit here and try to figure out what exactly Freepers were trying to accomplish," only underscores why those obdurate Freepers aren't listening to you.
You sound like Karl Rove talking about Trump, and you're a hair away from sounding like Obama talking about the bitter clingers, or Hillary her deplorables.
You've been here more than long enough to know that the stumbling and grinding and slugging at Free Republic eventually comes 'round closer to truth and righteousness than even most of us would have hoped.
You have your voice, and we all have ours. That's how and why it works.
You are an Establishment hack.