It’s a beautiful day in the neighborhood : After 45 years trying to push back against the increasingly avaricious and backward thinking of my party, upon witnessing the TOTAL moral and ethical collapse in the last 3 years of the G.O.P., today I changed my affiliation to Independent. The Trumpists may be fine going down in history as morally, ethically and ideologically bankrupt, but I cannot. When I witnessed Republican Senators and Congressmen regurgitating Russian propaganda from the U.S. Senate and House floors to the American people with a straight face on international media, that was the last straw. I have never voted along party lines before but always what was best for us all as a nation. Until 2018. Then for the first time in my life I voted along strictly party lines. Democrat. I am firmly convinced now that the best thing that could happen for America is to vote the Republican party out of existence. They have become disgusting bootlicking sycophants and Russian stooges. When you betray your oath of office, betray your oath to defend the Constitution, betray your oath to be impartial-you cannot be impartial when you vote against witnesses and documentary evidence-that is a cover-up, not a fair trial; when you betray your constituents, when you betray your people and country , is that not the very definition of treason ?? In the words of Heather Heyer,”If you’re not p.o.d, you’re not paying attention.” Well I pay attention, and I’m not only P.O.’d, but disgusted to the very core of my being that these miscreants are willing to sell America and the Constitution for a buck. If you are afraid of a tweet from the spray-on-tan, if you are afraid of losing your seat for doing what is right, then you are not worthy of that seat. Republicans are going to go down in history alongside Tail-gunner Joe, the Hitler Youth and slave owners. But don’t despair G.O.P., at least you’ll make Tricky Dick Nixon look like an ethics professor. Well done. So we need to start a grass roots bill to take away retirement and pensions somehow from representatives who do not live up to their oaths of office. If you or I screw up on our jobs, we get the door. Only 1% CEO’s and politicians get rewarded for screwing up. Why?? They scream about rating teachers, why then shouldn’t we be able to rate them?? One last parting thought : The main difference between Fox News and Josef Goebbels and Adolf Hitler : at least Hitler and Goebbels had the honesty to call it the Ministry of Propaganda.