Ima be honest, I have a limited knowledge on how the Republicans/Liberal/US politics works. I'm more familiar with the left/right term, and even I can't say that I'm a pro in politics.
Nevertheless, I think that making labeled case on such a big group will more often be false, especially the "they just follow what [somebody] says", which I hear everywhere and is actually the normal BASE of a political side.
About your example, I'm struggling to understand of the 2nd and last sentence, and is pretty sure that it's not grammatical correct but that's not the point. I learned on how money work and what it was a while back and I'm actually interested to understand how you perceive it, cause when I was little, I had the exact same struggle : breaking valuable stuff.