the difference between liberals and conservatives is liberal me can skip elections or vote for other parties out of disgust. if i am familiar with a local pol and think they are dumb or corrupt, i can ignore the (D) and vote against them. for example, i bumped into a famous congresswoman and she wouldn't follow my directions to get into a building with odd entrances near the office. ok, you don't need to be elected dogcatcher. i'll vote (R), (L), (G), whatever. i actually give a crap that things are run competently by people with multiple brain cells.
likewise, i am willing to skip presidential votes if they don't fulfill enough promises or belong to a played out period. i didn't vote gore in 2000. and because he didn't get out of afghanistan and end the gitmo black site, i didn't vote obama his second term in 2012.
a GOP voter would as soon die as not vote red. we liberals are supposedly all evil. you can't vote for evil. meanwhile ignores evil, corruption, and incompetence in front of their face. i think i read someplace the georgia elections officials trump tried to squeeze for votes, voted for trump in 2024. that's morally bankrupt.
i say i have been historically willing to vote (R) as a protest vote, but that ended when they went out of their way to screw me on student loan reform. the protest votes will now go to greens and libertarians. y'all are basically bridge trolls and would just as soon screw a lib as try and run government well.