Still Passionate and Confused

The thing that makes voting for the "opponent in name only" worth doing is that, when the side that will do the same thing but keep its mouth shut about it wins repeatedly, it makes the other side shut its mouth more, as the only possible way to keep up. When the other side shuts its mouth, it loses the opportunity to brainwash people further. You may only get real change, and only slight change at that, after repeated cycles of this, but for real change to occur, the first thing that has to happen is that the people who say all this is right need to lose to the people who say all this is wrong but do it anyway.