The Spotsylvania Republican Party invited me to "Like" their page, below is my response. Both political parties have done a terrible job managing the finances of the Federal Government, and both have drowned the nation in onerous laws and regulations. I reject both parties for their incompetence, and I further reject the Democrat Party for embracing the insanity of Marxist/Socialism disguised as "Progressive" values.
"Thanks for the invite, but I stopped identifying as a Republican in about the year 2002. My political beliefs are Conservative, and I normally support decent Republican candidates such as Rep. Rob Wittman in most elections. However, at the national level, especially the Presidency and positions that involve the leadership of the House and Senate, I can discern very little difference between the policies of the two major parties.
The Republican national leadership has constantly disappointed their supporters by failing to enact, or even make a concentrated effort at implementing the many promises they've made to the voters. The only consistency I've observed from the Party leadership, is to keep promising they'll get things done if they can just win the next election. We hear this every election.
George W. sent our forces to Iraq, to fight in a war we did not need. The Republican party blindly supported his decisions, without stopping to think or to ask questions. Later, Obama did the same thing in Libya, Syria, and other nations, and the Republican Party leadership still went along blindly. Today the warmongers John Bolton and Mike Pompeo, within the Trump administration, are eager to get us involved in a senseless war with Iran. When will this insanity stop?
The Republicans in Congress continue to pass the most ludicrous of budgets, and have all but ruined the financial future of our Federal Government. $22 Trillion worth of debt is an amount that will choke the nation, if interest rates rise just a few points too much. What are they doing? Does anyone in Congress, or at the state and local level, understand the basic principles of monetary economics? Do they realize the nation is sitting on a ticking time bomb called "hyperinflation"? Endless loans and cheap credit have saddled the public with enormous debt, which must be paid back at some point. The cost of living has increased exponentially over the past 30 years. Try going to college or to the hospital, only the very wealthy can get by without resorting to massive school loans or overpriced health insurance. The middle class is drowning in debt, and endless taxes. What has the Republican Party done to help? Nothing. If the Party leadership actually cared about the middle class, they would increase the Standard Tax Deduction to $100,000 per taxpayer. That's right, if you work and file a tax return, the first $100,000 of income should be free of income tax. That would be just one way to help the middle class.
The Republican Party, declaring it's supposed support of Conservative values, was at one time the Party of reason, thought, and moral principle. If it can ever return to actually representing those values, I will rejoin the Republican Party."