All right, but what then do we do when we're faced with what seems to be the depressingly usual choice between not-really-what-we-need and someone we KNOW will prove lethal? Sit it out? THAT would be a big help! Maybe put up another candidate for (fill in the office)? If we could do that and coordinate campaigns mostly by word of mouth and a sympathetic social media network, thus fashioning an end run round big moola, I think that'd be the way to go. But then of course that might split the 'woke' vote from the 'partially woke' when we need ALL wokes of all degrees of being so. Which means Orange Cyanide could win and then here come the goose-steppers!

I also think of fleeing, but the knowledge that if the battle's not here it'll eventually come to wherever we run is one thing keeping us here. That and lack of means, to be brutally honest.

You're too spot-on: We'll fail together as we fall together.