Part of the problem is that Ted Cruz will leave millions of American voters without adequate healthcare. Most voters below the poverty line that need ongoing medical care or have a loved one that does cannot vote for Ted Cruz without leaving themselves or their loved one(s) to rapidly medically deteriorate without healthcare, deform (if they have arthritis or some other such condition) that goes untreated, and ends up in a wrecked body on SSI or dead.
The GOP has a huge blind spot. If they would just dump their stupid tax credit feel good band aid, which does nothing for poor Americans who need healthcare because they don't earn enough income for the tax credit to even matter, and rather have a workable system in place (such as the
Purple Health Plan economists support) that allows all Americans to get basic adequate health care with the ability for those who earn more to purchase private plans to go anywhere they like and get the highest level of health care available; they would see their base balloon.
But, they'll never do it. The lives of these people mean nothing to them and so they'll do without millions of votes they would otherwise have... mine included.
Many poor former Republicans now register as independents and vote for independent candidates. We would come back if the GOP found their soul with respect to healthcare and start agitating within the GOP to change it's economic and trade ideology so people can go back to work and pay taxes again. But until they retreat from their agenda of government democide with respect to healthcare: never.
To support the GOP is to support a political party who's platform implements democide. Wrapping it up in a tax credit, the American flag, and Jesus Christ doesn't change the fact that leaving millions (perhaps tens of millions) of American citizens without adequate basic healthcare is a form of democide which is wholly unChristian.
We certainly can materially increase government revenue while maintaining a low structure for individuals, families, and businesses; end the deficit and start paying down the national debt; and have a very basic social safety net. But it requires changing what we are doing to get those results. I charted how to accomplish this on my economic website (remember I'm also a straight A MBA).
But both parties are a mess and so us independents will vote for independents and not vote for either one of them.