re: Is it more important that your candidate wins, or beating the Liberals no matter what?

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I want state and local independence from a possibly tyrannical central authority with the freedom to choose. You want an authoritarian central authority with the state/local compelled to follow. Let's avoid any 3/5ths comprises this time around.

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I want neither

I favor state control on certain things like Finance and Insurance. Having 50 state insurance commissioners is much safer than a single national one. I favor local and regional banking to national banking. I am a huge fan to the post Depression Era laws (closer to my age) that separated Investment Banking, Retail Banking, and Insurance by law so they should not own each part of the tree.

I favor national control on defense (guns) and in country (butter) issues. I favor a National Guns and National Abortion set of laws as left to the states, a compromise will never be reached and the Far Right and Far Left will continue to raise money and get 80% of voters to the polls. Take away the donor teat from each extreme and we can spend all the dough on something else (like national defense and health care). Personally I would love smaller state regulated health care but the lobbyist, insurance companies, and big Pharma will always win if that happened.

I am a fan of Game Theory but am well aware of the power in the hands of very few. I studied Public Choice Theory and think he was right that the only thing not allowing true free markets is too much control in the hands of too few.

I have family that go back to the Democratic - Republican Party before the split and think nobody in that party would have foreseen the corruption and self interest that evolved since they split. Neither the Democrats or Republicans resemble the original party.

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I support elected accountability across the board and very limited jurisdiction/power by any central authority.

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While I agree in principle this will not happen until you fix the root issue. Folks get wound up about Roe v Wade and Brown v Board of Education but the biggest harm to the overall citizens of the USA by SCOTUS is Citizens United. Allowing faceless 1% of 1% of the population to control voting and declaring they are "human" is not in the best interest of any legal citizen or any party who makes the effort to show up (in person) and cast their vote. Absentee exception to military oversees and such.

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But you support a Centralized Uniparty Bureaucracy of unelected and unaccountable person

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Not really. What I fully support at both the state and national level is to cut the dead weight! Get rid of the 1/3 who are political and their job is based on who they help get elected. Get rid (or demote) the 1/3 who have passed their level of ability. Right away you get rid of 2/3's of the state and federal payroll by culling the dead weight. Fewer (but more qualified) workers would be more effective and culling all that dead weight you can recruit better workers with better pay.

As for the military, I am older and remember the WPA (butter) and a that military (guns) and know that during that period the WPA trained skilled workers on the government bill, but they had long term skills (jobs) for the rest of their working life. I remember a military that was about 50% labor (jobs) and 50% non labor (tech) and see no real benefit to tech now gobbling up 90% to a handful of bloated companies sucking on the taxpayer teat. You can build all the drones you want but you actually need boots on the ground to occupy the land.

Think previous POTUS sending missiles in the Middle East to blow up a 50 dollar hut. The enemy was using that scrap metal to buy more guns and bombs. Just never made sense to me.