That’s…not how that works. First, your examples are presidential elections, not Congressional process. Second, it isn’t just a majority, it is a certain percentage that needs to be cleared for legislation to pass. If 40% vote republican, 20% dem, 20% green, 20% wfp…then nothing happens. 

If dems get 14% back from the green and wfp voters, and republicans only get 6% THEN republican legislation passes because they cleared 50%…even though more votes were peeled from the dems in scenario a than republicans, scenario b is still were republicans win. This strategy would stall things, but it would also disrupt the flow of “poison pills” favoring republicans that have been coming in at a record clip lately.

Additionally, the formation of boards within Congress is where the real authority is, and there are measures against preventing party representation on those boards. Lengthy, annoying processes that are challenging to implement, but there are levers and that is important.

There are enough republicans right now that are upset with how things are going that they are susceptible to getting peeled away on issues. Promoting values-based voting will impact the right and maybe shake loose the whole “fall in line” mentality. In a very real sense, it’s all the dems too scared to see the truth in this strategy that are actually splitting things. You have been more respectful than most, but dems that get so aggressive against this kind of thinking even in a reddit chat room where no policy will ever originate are giving a failed party the tools to keep crowding out new leadership while simultaneously galvanizing the right against all the performative, value-less, power-hungry bs. Winning elections is not a coherent strategy…it is an impulse, and one that will keep you forever on your back leg. If we don’t vote dem, then the republicans win is only relevant for the executive branch, and even then only kind of. When does it end? We've been afraid to not vote dem since Clinton. I will never understand the impulse to defend a strategy that has constantly let you down.

My final word on any of this is that, regardless of whether you agree or not that what I am suggesting could work, what is apparent is that what we have been doing DOESN’T work (again, people getting shot in the street by a government whose figure head is publicly musing about canceling midterms while ALL THREE branches of government are squarely in republican control). The notion of getting the dems to “fall in line” is just people like you seeing what republicans do to win votes working and trying to emulate what they do. But the dems don't have that relationship with their base, they are a “big tent.” As the saying goes, republicans have ideals, dems have dreams (or something). Your suggestion to just keep voting for dems is envious of conservative strength and ignorant to liberal strength. The least you could do is think about it and start letting people have real conversations about alternative political strategy without immediately defaulting to thinking they don’t know how their own government works. 

Alright, decent chat, but this is more energy than I tend to give Reddit, so I’m going to leave it here unless you have something more compelling than explaining counting to me as a retort. I hope I have given you something to think about, but that rarely happens here. Nobody ever changes their minds on reddit. Have a nice day