I'm gonna lose some of you here but frankly I don't give a fuck, this is the honest truth and we all need to address it - when it comes to the election, vote all red.
I don't give a shit if you have a do-nothing representative in your state. I don't give a fuck if your current Senator is moderate. It's not enough to not vote for Democrats, we need to absolutely crush them.
I would rather have some lazy all talk and no action Graham sitting in Congress than a moderate Dem that still follows marching orders from the party - end of story. Where were all of those "moderate" Dems when Trump was being impeached over the most partisan bullshit this nation has ever seen? Where were they when Kavanaugh's life was being ripped to shreds in front of his own eyes over an accusation that even a mock high school court would dismiss as childish gossip? Where were they when Big Tech swooped down on us and censored us, told us what we can and can't say or think? Where are they now, while Antifa and BLM literally burn and pillage cities to ashes and murder innocent people in the streets? Where are they while their constituents run out and topple our monuments, deface our war memorials, and threaten the lives of people that dare to do as little as wave the American flag?
If you haven't guessed the answer, I'll tell you - they're no where to be found. Dead silent. These "moderate" Dems are still just that... Democrats. We cannot allow their party to have strength because at the end of the day we all know too well that members there will only follow marching orders. (Some - AKA many - will even cheer these actions on and demand that even more extreme measures must take place.)
There are some Republicans I'm not happy with, I'll be the first to admit it, but I'm able to recognize that the enemy of my enemy is my ally. We can look at cleaning house and fixing who we have in our party AFTER this Blue Menace has been killed and handled. But right now the stakes are simply too high to risk otherwise, failure to recognize that is costly. Vote red - straight down. From local legislators to senators and everything in between.
You're right, you are going to lose some of us. Do you know why? A rino is just as dangerous and untrustworthy as a democrat. Do you know what "hold your nose and just vote for the republican" does? It emboldens those rinos to act like Romney because they know they'll still be elected because of the R next to their name.
I would rather vote for a third party candidate that I agree with on most issues than to ever vote for a rino again. Hell, I'll simply skip those boxes if my only choices are democrat and rino. The blue menace won't go away if you just vote in a bunch of rino's, it will just continue and get worse because the cancer is still there.
Comparing the similarity between two statements doesn't nullify either of them. And if you want to take your stance, that's cool - completely within your right to do so. But I'd rather deal with a few treacherous snakes that will make things difficult and chaotic at select moments - and know that dealing with these select few will be fairly easy as they wouldn't have an enormous political machine and organization behind them - than individuals that will take every possible moment (even to the point of manufacturing events) to make things difficult and chaotic and that will have never ending support from an equally large and capable political body.
You're missing the problem with your logic. The same group and puppet masters behind the scene are also supporting the rino's. Voting for them keeps the same systems in place. Those rino's aren't going to magically turn around and start playing nicely. They'll be given their orders and follow them, just like democrats will, and will be even harder to remove later because they will simply be given even more money and support by those wanting this nonsense to continue because they know that's the only avenue left.
If a leg is turning gangrenous you don't leave large chunks of that tissue still attached to continue to cause issues. Leaving rino's in power is leaving a gangrenous leg attached, and it WILL cause you far more issues later than you think it will. If they do not support America and have the countries best interests at heart, they need to go. It doesn't matter if they are a "republican", they need to be out on their asses too.
If I'm in the middle of a desert and my leg is turning gangrenous, but I'm miles and miles away from a hospital where I can successfully recover, I don't decide now is the time I better amputate, pull out my pocket knife, and get to work on sawing off my leg. It is a certainty that doing so would kill me. Instead, I accept that I'm in a bad situation, prioritize my issues, and move from there. I address my leg once I'm safely capable of doing so and once I know I'm not forfeiting my life to cut it off.
There are times and places for things - a primary, for example. An election of this magnitude and at these stakes is neither.