General Discussion

And you've still not addressed the other challenges I've pointed out of gerrymandering, voter suppression laws, compliant and complicit courts, as well as the media continually "normalizing" Trump and the GOP while villainizing and nitpicking Democrats (happily engaging in bothsiderisms and hypocrisy). It all comes together to work against us.

The ill-informed and unrealistic non-voters are only buoyed by claims from folks such as yourself that the party is a failure and not worthy of their votes... and that only the bloodsport of kneecapping and hobbling incumbents (in some irrational effort at perfection) while allowing GOP candidates to continue on their merry way is foolhardy.

Nobody is "hectoring" voters... but I can tell you this... coddling them and validating their pity-party tantrums is NOT the solution. These ill-informed non-voters (or 3rd party voters) need to tough-love and to be confronted with some blunt truths about the effects of their unrealistic and selfish behavior.

Folks need to learn to: Think strategically. Support Democrats. Defeat Republicans. Accept reality and disappointments. Stop pouting.

As I've said repeatedly. In our two-party system, the winner will be either the Democrat or the Republican. It's up to responsible mature adult voters to understand that reality and to choose the BEST of those two candidates. Not the "perfect" Green candidate or the "perfect" People's Party candidate. The ONE candidate who actually has a chance of winning, and whose values and agenda and platform most closely represent their own hopes and aspirations. That's all it takes.

If you what to characterize that as "bullying" then by all means, do so. I call it a dose of reality and tough love. But, as has often been said... sometimes people need to hit rock-bottom (and then some) before they will give up their self-destructive habits and learn to grow as human beings and to accept that the world does not revolve around whether the BEST candidate has done enough to "earn their vote".