On January 10, 2021, I posted about the events of January 6, 2021. I concluded that post with:

“As a Party we must decide if we are a Party of our ideology or a Party of a candidate. Look what being a party of a candidate has done to us, on the federal level we went from controlling both houses of Congress and the Executive Branch to losing it all. This was not lost in one election; we lost the support of a majority of voters who voted. I choose ideology and if a majority of my Party chooses candidate – it will no longer be a Party for me.”

It is clear now; the GOP is a Party of a candidate rather than ideology. As a Party, the GOP no longer wants greater individual freedom and a smaller government. It wants its own large government to impose its own will on individuals. It is increasingly clear that these are its goals. It increasingly calls for greater executive power and the elimination of the checks that our federalism has in place to maintain 3 co-equal branches. It works to limit the rights of individuals from voting to the right of bodily autonomy. The current Republican House majority is incapable and/or unwilling to govern. It supports a candidate to such a degree that it seriously considered short-circuiting its own nomination process. Now it is committing to spending the money given to it to pay for running candidates that can win general elections to the legal fees of a candidate that purports to be a billionaire. At the end of November, the GOP reported its lowest bank balance at the same point in any year since 2016, according to disclosures with the Federal Election Commission. With $9.96 million in spending money, the RNC had less than half the $21.35 million it reported in 2016 after the current presumptive nominee won the presidential election. Now that this candidate has installed his daughter-in-law and other loyalists at the head of the GOP, it will probably go bankrupt quicker than one of his casinos. This candidate that it is nominating to run for the Office of the President refused to defend his own vice-president and co-equal branch of government, Congress, when a mob was threatening to hang his vice-president and took over The Capitol in violation of his oath of office.

In 1984 within a span of a week I turned 18, registered in the Republican Party and began BASIC Training at Fort Bliss, TX. I have been a registered Republican since that day. Until now; today I have changed my Party affiliation with the Board of Elections. Paraphrasing Ronald Reagan, I didn’t leave the Republican Party, the Republican Party left me.