I think your strategy is the most effective one. In the longrun I expect we will head towards the government regulating so much and so bureaucratic that the system will eventually come down like the Soviet system did for the same reasons.
But the Republicans do delay that end run.. they can't stop it because if they don't make things more socialist and more nanny statist the people vote them out. So they do things like the perscription drug plan.. just a lot smaller then the Democrat plan.
Ultimatley I think people have to look beyond voting as the way to make society the way they want it to be. And I'm not saying going for dictatorship, but that voluntary action is more powerful.. I think what happens when people view voting as the only way to deal with any issue, they empower the politicians.. they make the politicians the only source of power in the nation.
I meant to add delaying is a worthwhile goal. As life is pretty good here right now. Just like if we find a new source of oil, even if it won't last forever.. if it is the most cost effective form of energy in the present it is still worth using it.
Even if it will run out in 50 years.
Very good analysis all the way around.
P.S. Do you have any ideas on what people (average man and woman) can do beside just vote? Basically I'm just a voter. I don't really have the time to do a whole lot else. Are you thinking along traditional lines of letter writing and sending money to conservative groups or do you have or heard of new ideas to sway them to the will of the majority?