I think if it's one's passion (perhaps even one's duty to the Constitution as it were) then it's a good thing to jump ship and use the vote to go against someone "on the other side" who hates our way of life. While the vote still has some slight meaning I think this is good.
And just like MB says, the gun control debate was never a debate, just camouflage for their anti-gun activities that kept us looking right when we should have been looking left. It is us they hate more than our guns. On the larger stage, the left is not truly debating the economy, racism or whatever, it's not a debate. It's a holding action to allow them to gain ground while we foolishly pursue the debate.
I take this to be true. They hate America. The anti-US politics politics employed by the left are not truly a debate. They are not debating. They are building their ranks while we foolishly believe we can sway them with the truth.
What is the truth? It is that they want us gone.
This Democrat or Republican ship thing sucks. I vote for the person. But you have brought up a very interesting point. I think virtually all of us on this board vote for the person. But, if I cannot have someone in a general election I like, then can or should I vote in a different primary to help go against a person I think is a bad person. I like that. It's a tool.
More than that, the "Democrats" have used a form of what you suggest for decades now. They are often called RINO's in the Republican party (but they do not make up all RINO's!). They are politicians who include themselves in a group and say they support something and, truly the caveat is, they support anything that will get them elected. They are liars, they are cheats.
Now the Democrats are infected. It happened a long time ago actually.
You see this in Elizabeth Warren who, as being exposed as "Fauxchohontas" has shown, is clearly a liar and calls herself a Democrat when in fact she is a totalitarian leftist. Cherokees here in Oklahoma have called her out for lying about being an Indian for a long, long time.
Look at Bernie and his ilk. They are socialist/communists and not what I grew up with as being Democrats. Not Democrats at all. And make no mistake, Bernie's base, his support is not listening to the silly debate. They hate us. They want power. And remember, so long as the swamp is empowered...it will not be concerned.
There is no criteria or pledge to go by to align oneself as Democrat or Republican. We go to the local voter registration office and write down whatever we want....that's the criteria. Then we get to vote in their primary.
I think it would be a wonderful movement to swap ships and vote against bad people who want to destroy our way of life.
Good call.
And yes. I have voted for a president. Every time. Of the choice I was presented there was only one with the highest score. It may have been a low score, but it was a score nonetheless. This is life. This is reality. If we had our own personal perfect candidate we totally agreed with, then other people would complain about having to hold their nose to vote for the "perfect candidate". It is my belief that it is a nonsense debate to opine about not having a perfect candidate. No one will ever be perfect. The only perfect Man who lived on this planet was crucified.