If you're right, then you must be trying to blame "Republican" members of the Democrat Party for the trouble Hawaii is in.  After 62 years, half of the overtaxed population lives paycheck to paycheck, 5 out of 6 new jobs pay poverty wages, and we have an financially unsustainable state and county government which exists to redirect our taxes to pay raises, perks and pensions for Democrat signwavers who 'work' by day for the HGEA, UPW, et al.  Sorry, but I gotta dispute your notion that the direction of the Democrat Party is a Republican one.  The direction Hawaii is headed is a decidedly liberal Democrat one.