Ah. If that’s the case, you might want to work on your own phrasing. There’s a strong implication in your initial statement that you have a hypothesis, but you wanted to be coy with it, so I attempted to draw you out. I was hoping it was something interesting.
Sorry, let me rephrase that and see if it’s more easily parsed:
What is it you think is going on here, and how does your explanation explain these three authors’ situation?
I’d be very interested in hearing a hypothesis from you that explains all of the data rather than less than half of it.
I’ve only ever used walls, honestly, just a palisade a decent distance off from anything I like, with places to arch from.
Do you include walls in “moats”?
Oh, I’m sure they will. That is not, in the slightest, the same as caring about said implications in ways that mean that the species won’t get murked, though.
So, if this is true, what have the Democrats done to get your vote since 2016? Because Jill Stein took almost a mil and a half, and Clinton lost by less than that by far. So if this hypothesis is correct, they would have done something since to earn your vote. Also, the libertarian candidate took nearly 4.5 mil. Have the Republicans moved three times further towards the libertarian party as the Dems did towards the greens? Because I don’t think that the evidence supports this hypothesis. If you still believe it, what evidence, if any, would convince you otherwise?
I submit that you can accomplish far more shifting by:
Getting your candidates into local elections
Engaging in coordinated contact campaigns to the elected party members of the party you had hoped to shift
Engaging in coordinated contact campaigns to the large money donors to the party you wish to shift
It’s not simple, it’s not sexy, it’s not fast or rapidly gratifying. That’s just how the world is. Any low hanging fruit along those lines has been plucked and sucked dry long since, and you’ll have to put in the work if you want to change things.
And voting third party in a FPTP system for a party that hasn’t worked through the lower levels of political power is effectively not voting.
Can you explain why you expect low turnout to do anything but hand control of the government to people who demonstrably feel no shame? Because one party keeps trying to lower turnout, saying turnout is bad, and generally trying to remove the ability to vote and for votes to matter, and it’s not the one Biden is the point guy for. The people reading Donald Trump: The Man, The Christ, are going to show up, so your argument is, “people who would vote against that shouldn’t show up and should cede power to the evangelicals who do”.
Yeah, it’s both. Final answer.
No, see, it’s like an inverted pyramid, and the little our overlords permit us of the product of our labor trickles down to them, you see.
My mom introduced me to Napster. So at this point, it would be a family tradition.