Oh, you’re not going to do better policies? What are you proposing instead? Nothing fundamentally changes? But you want votes because the fundamentals are bad? Isn’t there a chance that people are unhappy under you and then the bad people get back in power and make it worse? Wouldn’t that just be ratcheting up the bad, souring people to you, and concentrating the badness because the base will either desire worse policies, die, or flee? Couldn’t you just inspire non-voters to vote by proposing popular things instead of trying to get people who hate you to like you?