[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.

[fire and forget]

I respectfully disagree in turn. The country would go over to the dems en masse if most conservatives didn't vote Republican. Liberals would control the government in addition to the schools and media (which shape the minds of voters). If you think turning Socialist inertia in America is tough in the present environment, imagine how it would be with liberal Democrats in the House, the Senate, the Executive AND, the Supreme Court. I'd say pretty much impossible. At least liberals are being held somewhat in check and the SCOTUS remains slanted conservatively for now, until such time as we can light a fire under American voters and expose the dems and their agendas for what they really are.