By: Brian Decker

For all intents and purposes the Republican Party, as a vehicle for the conservative movement, is dead. It is dead both nationally and in the state of Iowa. It no longer fights for limited government and liberty for the individual. It has decided that buying votes with entitlement programs and creating dependence with such programs is the way to gain political and personal power. It now treats private citizen’s money and property as nothing more than revenue to be taken and used as it pleases.  It treats personal liberty as a door mat to wipe their feet clean as they enter their ivory towers.

It is therefore up to members of this party to hold these politicians accountable. We must only vote for the few remaining Republicans that live up the party platform. Unfortunately, there is no other viable option when the Republican in an election is one of the turn coats. Obviously, since virtually every Democrat running for office is a neo-socialist, you cannot shake these turn coat Republicans back into line by voting for what they are becoming.

However, Republicans must not hold their noses with eyes closed and vote for these politicians who are destroying the fabric of the nation as Democrats have done for almost three decades. If Republicans do this and redirect their anger at their “enemy”, the opposition party, they are no better than the Democrats who have been doing this for as long as I can remember.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe wrote, “None are so hopelessly enslaved, as those who falsely believe they are free. The truth has been kept from the depth of their minds by masters who rule them with lies. They feed them on falsehoods till wrong looks like right in their eyes."

No other words of wisdom have ever rang so true in describing what is currently afflicting what is left of the Republican Party and has long ago befallen the Democrat Party.