Nah, we all got played. Thankfully, Trump came along and exposed to the world what many FReepers knew - or at least suspected - already. Politics necessarily will change, I think.
And - honestly - at a national level, our only choices were liberal democrats, and slightly less liberal democrats. With Bush, McCain, Romney, etc, we chose the best of a bad lot.
That was how the uniparty kept us in chains. We could vote but they saw to it that we never had a decent candidate to vote for, always one of THEM.