You're in the extreme minority of Americans who will vote for someone who has 0% chance of winning. There's no reason for anyone to bother courting you as a voter when there are much easier people to reach.
Well, it will be my life's new mission to make reaching them with the message of big government liberalism that much harder to do.
Are you voting for a Brand? A person? (
That one, really?) or are you voting for what they promise? If the latter, why?
Is that because you think somehow new government programs will give you a smaller government?
Is it because you think a more efficient government doing things it never should will somehow liberate you?
I am voting for a candidate who represents a Party with the United States' Constitution as its platform. Why would you vote otherwise?
To "win" by promoting and supporting that which you do not want?
That makes no sense.
I supported the GOP for decades in the off chance that, since Reagan, another would come along to push the discussion back in the right direction, to push the government back toward the Constitutional Republic we have all seen slipping away. That push just hasn't happened. A couple million Americans went to DC to protest that liberalism, to profess support for that Republic, and the result was the next crop of candidates claimed to support those principles, and with the exception of very few, promptly forgot all about that when they got elected. The problem has gotten worse, despite letters, withholding donations (and explaining why), surveys which wanted my money but apparently not my opinion, and all that time the GOP has gone farther than ever from a party I can support, with rare exception only paying lip service to the principles I hold dear.
Why would I continue to support that?
If some guy who promised to mow your lawn did half, scattered weed seed on it, and doubled the bill, would you hire him back? If you wouldn't have that in your yard, why do you continue to promote that being done to our country? The GOP won't even close its primaries.
This year's obviously Big Government Liberal candidate is the last straw.
So, no, I refuse to vote for more of the same. There is a better alternative, and all people need to do to make that a reality is to go for it. If enough will, the landscape could very well change.
