A “new” Republican Party is not needed. A new Party is.
The Republican Party as currently constituted is one of America’s greatest enemies as it offers no LOYAL opposition.
I trust my town government, because I meet up with town officials at the supermarket or the coffee shop. I can scream at them in public if I need to. I know my tax money is used to fix the streets, pay the police and firefighters and overpay the incompetent teachers.
I mostly trust my state government because a couple of state officials live in my town and I’m on a first-name basis with my state Rep. I know they spend a lot of my tax money on state police, state colleges, public health stuff and ... um ... I’m not completely sure where the rest goes. But I do know they spend too much and they bear watching.
I do NOT trust the federal government because they are completely out of touch with the real world. Except for the military, I can’t think of a damn thing done by the federal government that I really need. Well, maybe some of the fun stuff like weather forecasting and NASA and the Interstates. God alone knows where they spend my tax money, then they borrow hundreds of billions more every year. Ridiculous. I could retire 100 times over on what the FedGov gives in foreign aid to ... oh, I don’t know ... say Kazakhstan or Nepal. Time to audit the federal government, IMHO.
If we do go to war against our own government, I’m not going against my town. I like them. I probably won’t go against my state, though they do bear watching. But the beast in Washington, D.C., forget it. The Constitution gives the feds very little to do and that is all they should be doing. They are so far off the rails that they can’t even see the train station anymore.
/rant off
And then the follow up is the end to our FREE Country.
We have not been FREE for a VERY long time.
The FERAL Government has stripped us of our freedoms and liberties slowly but surely over the years
The answer is simple for me, #TEXIT