There was a time when GOP lawmakers called for the elimination of entire federal agencies. Today, milquetoast promises to pursue smaller government are followed by votes for ever bigger government...Republican administrations have generally increased the amount spent at a faster rate than Democratic ones.
And GOP party hacks and Trumsplicans are still outraged when we say there is zero difference between either party. One simply takes us to totalitarian Socialism at a slower pace with different lobbyists writing legislation and the other takes us to economic insolvency faster.
"...deficits don't matter." No Child Left Behind, Medicare Part D, and bank bailouts serve as a vivid reminder that shrinking the state doesn't stand a chance.
Not only that, but putting this government back into the confines of Constitutional bounds is also off the table and never going to happen. Neither the GOP or the Democrats will permit or allow the government to be limited or the Constitutional usurpations and circumventions it has breached to be restored. Ever. It is corrupted beyond redemption and we are now left with voting for whichever monarch we are led to believe is going to 'save us'.
The voting record of congressional Republicans while Obama was in office is additional evidence that politics—not principles—guide the GOP.
The commentary of Republican party members and self-identifying "Conservatives" post-Trump illustrates that principles no longer matter and are to be considered an evil and irrelevant. Revenge, payback and shoving faces into the crotch of their dominance while achieving power is all that matters to them. Once their party and cult of personality get power, all efforts are spent to cheerlead every act and statement to force all to submit and pledge fealty to the ruler and his party, or be declared an enemy of the people and the state.
But with Washington unified under GOP rule since January 2017, congressional Republicans have been blowing money at levels congressional Democrats could only dream of.
1.5 TRILLION in deficit spending, plus and additional $700 and $710 BILLION spent in the next two years for the military - 30 billion more than requested by the Pentagon FOR JUST THE NEXT TWO YEARS. All deficit spending, fiat currency with nothing to back it up except empty promises. One day soon, the moment confidence wanes - Weimar is going to be a picnic in comparison and we will ALL be looking at Venezuela for ideas on what comes next.
Republican apologists always seem to have an excuse for federal expansions on their watch.
Always. Even when adopting the Democrat agenda for themselves, the Apologists for Trump and the GOP find a way to get in our faces to excuse it as necessary in order to 'win'.
Believing that Republicans will make good on pledges to reduce the size and scope of government makes us Charlie Brown to politicians' football-holding Lucy.
Yes, that meme has been offered for years. And, for me at least - I am done playing that game just so I can say that I am on a 'team'. Not interested in their games anymore, or their party.
It is time to do something different, away from DC.
Because the consequences of what the GOP and the Democrats have been busy doing the last several decades, has not even visited us fully yet.
It's only just beginning, and their answer to the woe and misery they have sown that we are just beginning to reap, will be to impose more iron-fisted government and shake you down for every penny to keep the Beast fed while it still expands itself. Laws will be enacted to prevent your escape and force you into compliance with whatever oppression they dream up 'for the good of the people'.
The Republic is over. We're just too afraid to admit it to ourselves because either we have to do something about it, or accept our fate. So it is better to deceive ourselves and pretend that things are still okay and working the way they are supposed to.
