re: As a Republican what’s something you used to believe but had to come to terms was false

That Black Sabbath's song "War Pigs" is damn close to how things actually work. Since the start of Viet Nam we have been a country engaged holistically in war for profit and have become the nation that Eisenhower warned us about in his farewell speech.

I used to thing Republicans were more judicious about these things, but was dead wrong. There is one party that rules Washington, the elites. The average citizen is just one of their pawns.