Fortunately for the Obamassiah, most Americans are politically unsophisticated idiots who have devalued freedom in the quest for getting something for "nothing" as promised by the cockroach politicians who will say anything to get and keep power. The electorate's idiocy, cultivated in part by coerced attendance in GMYICs (government mandated youth indoctrination centers, aka: public schools)is most readily evidenced by their continued support of the Republicrat and Democan duopoly, which has been working diligently for the last 150 years to erode our liberty. The Obamassiah is just expediting the duopoly's established agenda.

The origin of the quote,"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." is uncertain, but when I read the barbs hurled by Republicans and Democrats against each other, within the context of their robotic loyalty to the Republicrat and Democan duopoly, the aforementioned quote comes to mind, and for many good reasons:

• In 1913 the duopoly Republicrats and Democans promised that only the rich would pay the income tax. They lied!
• In 1935 They said that there would be a Social Security Trust Fund that you could count on in old age. They Lied! There is no trust fund. It's a massive Ponzi scam, headed for bankruptcy that makes Bernard Madoff look like a altar boy.
• In 1965 they said that by 1990 Medicare would cost only $9 billion. In 1990 it actually cost $67 billion. In 2008 it cost $325 billion and will be bankrupt in only a few more years. They lied!
• They told us that 58,000 Americans needed to die in Vietnam in order to make Vietnam and the world safe for democracy. We now know They lied!
• In 1979, they said if we create the Department of Education at a cost of Billions per year, so their duopoly appointed, unelected bureaucrats could meddle in our kid's education, that it would improve education in America. Every year since then test scores have fallen and education has gotten worse. They lied!
• They claimed that if they retained their duopoly control of power in Washing D.C. that they'd protect us. They were in power when their porous boarders and lax enforcement of immigration laws resulted in the 9/11/01 Terrorist attack that killed almost 3,000 Americans. They lied!
• They said that we need to have Americans die in Iraq and Afghanistan to keep terrorists from attacking us again. Meanwhile our borders remain a sieve for terrorists and invaders from Canada, Mexico and other Latin American countries.They're lying again.
• They each swore to uphold the Constitution upon taking office. They lied! They ignore the 14th Amendment's text and the clearly stated intent of the Senator who authored it, which was to ensure the citizenship of freed slaves and their children. Most duopoly Republicrats and Democans believe that "Anchor Babies" born to foreign invaders are citizens.
• They say they're for your property rights. They're lying! On June 23, 2005, the Supreme Court of duopoly justices, in Kelo Vs. City Of New London, said that the government can take your property and give it to another private party, simply because that other private party would be able to generate more taxes for the government from the property than you. "You bad state slave! We're going to give your property to the good state slave."
• They claim to be defenders of free speech. They're lying! The 1st Amendment of the Constitution, says in part, "Congress shall make no law...abridging the freedom of speech", yet in 2002 they enacted the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act, aka: The McCain–Feingold Act. Now, if you and your buddies pool your money together to print and hand out flyer's or buy radio/TV ads, 30 days before primaries and 60 days before general elections, urging your fellow voters to not vote for duopoly candidates because...hmm, let's see, they abridge your right to free speech, guess what? you're paying a big fine at the least, and at the worst you're going to JAIL!
• They say the housing-bust-recession that started in 2007 was because of not enough duopoly regulation. THEY'RE LYING! The opposite is the case: In 1977, they enacted the Community Reinvestment Act. This in conjunction with later, more expansive duopoly meddling in private banking businesses, forced banks to loan to people with bad credit histories. Non-partisan, objective economic experts are unanimous that this duopoly regulating interference, along with the duopoly creation of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, is the biggest reason for the economic crash we're now experiencing.
• They say they're supporters of freedom and no taxation without representation. They've created about 1,000 government bureaus, agencies, divisions and departments, staffed by almost 2 million unelected, rule-making government bureaucrats, spending an annual budget of 3 trillion dollars, who've churned out over 74,937 pages of rules and regulations, with the force of law that we must obey at an estimated cost of 1.14 trillion dollars per year or suffer the consequences--including imprisonment! This isn't freedom. It's slavery to the state? They're lying again!
• They say they are supporters of liberty. They're lying! Just to comply with the incomprehensible tax code they schemed together, Americans are enslaved to the duopoly for estimated 6.65 billion hours per year at an estimated cost of $156.5 billion in lost productivity just to have their brand of duopoly "Liberty".
• The duopoly's Republicrats and Democans say they are against deficits and want to pay off the national debt (now over $11 TRILLION dollars, i.e. $38,000.00 for each man woman & child). They're lying! History proves that no matter which faction of the duopoly controls the budgeting process, almost without exception, government spending always increases, the deficits always get bigger and so does the debt.
• They say, "Trust us, we can run medical care in the U.S. more efficiently and at a lower cost." Yeah, just like Medicare, FEMA, Amtrak, The Veterans Hospitals and the Post Office. They're lying again!!!!!

So what's the bottom line? The duopoly is counting on the barb hurling to keep their unthinking loyalists preoccupied. If you're hurling barbs you won't be dwelling on the insanity of how you keep voting for a duopoly candidate every election even though they keep lying to you and screwing you out of your life, liberty and property. I say go ahead and regain your sanity by throwing off their mind-controlling choker chain. Go ahead, grow a pair and vote for a Constitution or Libertarian Party candidate.

I'm often told by Real Conservatives, hereinafter defined as those who actually revere the Constitution and it's constraints on the power of the federal government, that they won't vote for a Real Conservative candidate from perhaps the Constitution party, or the Libertarian Party. Why? Because even though a candidate from either of those parties may more accurately reflect their conservative beliefs, such a candidate "...can't win, so I would be wasting my vote"; thus, rationalizing their intent to vote for the Republican Candidate from the Republicrat/Democan political duopoly. This, even though the duopoly candidate may only marginally represents any of their convictions as a Real Conservative. Alternatively, they may just decide to not vote at all, somehow reasoning that it's less wasteful of their vote than voting for the candidate who matches their convictions but "Can't win". Sadly this is the insane reasoning that many "Real Conservatives" employ when voting.

This "wasted vote" paranoia is heavily relied upon by the duopoly parties as they play the Good Cop/Bad Cop routine with each other in order to retain the vote of their respective constituency factions; and thus, their mutual back-slapping, 155-year iron grip on power. In the case of the Republicans, their, kool-aid drinking media puppets, Michael Medved, Rush Limbaugh, Hugh Hewitt, Laura Ingraham, Shaun Hannity, Michael Savage,  et al, are the pontificating stage props in the Good Cop/Bad Cop routine. They will reliably proclaim, "Sure (insert Republican candidate name here for Good Cop) has compromised on a lot of conservative core principals, but if you don't vote for him/her you'll assure the election of the, (insert Democrat name here for Bad Cop) and you'll be wasting your vote". Thanks to his perpetually repeated ploy, the reverse of which is practiced by the democrats, the duopoly has repeatedly and successfully played their respective constituencies for patsies.

In the case of the Republican politicians, having corralled the real conservative constituents with wasted-vote-paranoia, they ignore their appeals for a smaller, constitutionally constrained federal government. This frees them to slavishly serve the interests of their shadow constituencies, many shared with the Democrats: huge, multi-national corporations, multi-national bankers, environmentalist fanatics and other powerful special interest groups. These entities provide them with the big money they need to maintain their grip on power.

For Real Conservatives, habitually duped by this charade, many end up feeling as though they've wasted their vote anyway. They vote contrary to their convictions, prodded by their duopoly induced paranoia, and then helplessly watch as they're deprived of their liberties and even more power shifts to Washington. They grimace, seeing the country's political spectrum shifting further and further to the left of center (the center correctly being defined as the federal government adhering to the limitations on its power as set forth in the Constitution, not by the duopoly or the media or political pundit's propensity for re-defining the center further and further to the left).

Fortunately, the brave men and women who died to establish our now bastardized constitutional republic were not so easily cowed into compromising their convictions for fear that their efforts to establish independence from King George III would be "wasted". The Good Cop/Bad Cop routine of that day was played out by the British governing authorities and weenie colonists who were loyalists to the British Crown. They argued it would make more sense to be passive, or better yet, actively support the crown in its continued subjugation of themselves and their fellow colonists. After all, Britain, at that time, had the most powerful military force in the world. Resistance would be a "waste", it would be futile. If they resisted things would be far worse for them. If they weren't killed by the mighty British army in battle, they would eventually be hanged for sedition, once the rebellion was inevitably crushed. The minute men responded to this "wasted effort" mentality the same way freedom loving, Real Conservatives should respond to the "wasted vote" rationalization so common today. They acted in accordance with their convictions—voting against tyranny with their muskets, lead balls and black powder. Had they succumbed to the "wasted effort" reasoning of the crown loyalists, they would have stepped into the voting booth of battle, loaded their musket, and shot lead ball votes from the British lines into the lines of their freedom yearning, fellow colonists. Instead, they refused to be cowed and corralled. They stood against all odds, shoulder-to-shoulder with others who refused to be duped into submission to the crown. Each time they fired their vote into the "invincible" British lines, their muskets roared their agreement with the words of Patrick Henry: "Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!"

Our choice is easier to make than that of the minutemen. Currently, we don't have to risk death to vote in accordance with our convictions; therefore, now is the time for all Real Conservatives to show enough courage to reject the duopoly's Good Cop/Bad Cop ruse. Only then will we ever have a realistic hope of regaining the freedom and liberty we once had in this country. Freedom and liberty purchased with the blood of those brave minutemen.

Ah, but they are! They fell for and continue to support the biggest ponzi schemes ever devised by the slime-ball, duopoly Republicrats and Democans, i.e. Social Security and Medicare. Americans are so stupid that they not only continue to vote for the duopoly politicians who maintain these bankrupt and un-Constitutional wealth transfer programs, and by a 52% margin, they voted for a racist and neo-marxist president who wants to institute another freedom robbing government boondoggle--politician & bureaucrat run medical insurance forced upon everyone.

Additionally, many Americans have also converted to the religion of Man-made Gore-bull Warming and are eager for the Senate to pass the Waxman-Markey proposal for the establishment of the state church of Gore-bull Warmism, wherein we will all be forced to support the new state religion via the energy-tithe to be paid whenever we buy something that required any energy to produce. Yes, every time you pay your whopping utility bill you'll be kissing the ring of Pope Algore!

Why is this? Surveys have shown that most Americans--educated in GMYICs (Government Mandated Youth Indoctrination Centers, i.e. public schools)--are so stupid/ignorant that they believe all their needs are rights and that the main purpose of the Federal Government is to give them "stuff" for free.

Early in our country's history, most states strived to ensure that only those who owned property and paid taxes were eligible to vote. In so doing, only those with a stake in society had a say in how the country was run. Today, with over 50% of the populace receiving some sort of parasitical hand-out from the duopoly-controlled government and these same parasites having the right to vote, any concern for the maintenance of a free society is outweighed by the parasite class's desire to suckle more heavily on the duopoly's vote- buying, handout teat.

One solution to this problem would be a Constitutional amendment restricting the right to vote only to those who pay the income tax or an amendment wherein the votes of those who pay the tax have their votes counted twice. This way even the quasi-parasites, i.e., those who get some kind of government hand-out but still pay the income tax would still have a vote/double vote. It's a concession, but one I'd be willing to tolerate in order to restrict the input the pure-parasites have in governance.