@mekkaokereke @Makyris this is the thing I have a hard time articulating when I get frustrated with people yelling "non-voters really screwed us this time!"
When your choices are:
-Vote against your own interest
-Vote against your own interest, but harder
-Vote in your interest, but know your candidate will lose
If you want to win a political race, you have to actually oppose your opponent. Being a watered down, respectable version of them is a terrible way to show you're different, mainly because it doesn't show that.