A past girlfriend — that term is not accurate, as I lived with her for 10 years — used to ask me a question: “What is the definition of insanity?”

I’m sure she was not the one who thought up that question for the first time.

Anyway, at first I didn’t know the answer, but eventually (she was a lot smarter than me), after several instances, I learned the answer — the definition of insanity is: 

Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.  

Someone said — and it wasn’t me, so like our “coup-ed” (is that a word?) President Joe Biden, I plagiarized this: 

“Facts are stubborn things.” 

These are some of the facts that matter to me as a result of voting for the Biden/Kamala Democratic ticket (I think it is called “Bidenomics”):  

• Gasoline up 51 percent

• Eggs up 47 percent

• eElectricity up 32 percent

• Groceries up 22 percent

• Car insurance up 54 percent  

A major item to me, socially, is the price of a beer in a Hendersonville brewery. That cost has gone from five dollars a pint... to seven dollars.  

If my math is correct, that is a 40 percent increase. I’m sure the North Carolina State Highway Patrol likes that....  

Another fact is that Kamala — in the vice presidential role (her role) — has to take personal responsibility for this, not Joe.

As president of the Senate, Kamala cast the tiebreaking vote on Aug. 7, 2022 for the (misnamed) Inflation Reduction Act.  

I don’t believe it has reduced inflation.  

Inflation is 9 percent — a 50-year high. 

 I am 73 years old — and everything I have is paid for. I can afford the local beers.  

However, if you are young and want to participate in the “American Dream” (own your own home and quit living in your mother’s basement kind of thing), then you might consider not doing the same thing over and over expecting a different result, aka “insanity.”  

You might recall pre-2020 prosperity, when local gasoline was $2.29 a gallon — and eggs cost $1.29 a dozen at Ingles.  

At times, they were 68 cents a dozen. 

 It is time to recall — or look up the facts — and do something different… duh, vote differently.