Voting...
"The main problem in any democracy is that crowd-pleasers are generally brainless swine who can go out on a stage & whup their supporters into an orgiastic frenzy - then go back to the office & sell every one of the poor bastards down the tube for a nickel apiece. Probably the rarest form of life in American politics is the man [or woman] who can turn on a crowd & still keep his [or her] head straight - assuming it was straight in the first place."
--Hunter S. Thompson
If you're a US reader, I hope you've all identified at least a few of those rare ones and that you'll be voting for them today.