republican or democrat?

I'm beginning to think those labels-republican and democrat- are false categories. I was at "Laura Ingalls Wilder" days at Heritage Hill State Park in DePere Wisconsin this weekend (for family reasons). One of the videos we watched talked about how the author and her farmer husband believed in values of hard work, independence, individuality and taking responsibility for yourself. I realized, those are probably traditional republican values. I thought, oh, is that why so many farmers are republicans? But times have changed and now farmers get subsidies and payments to not plant or plant special crops, and they can barely afford to be farmers and they have all these debts from their equipment purchases. So much for independence and individuality and taking responsibility for yourself--not that it's their fault, it's the system. I also realized, I believe in those values and live my life this way. So maybe I'm a traditional republican. But I believe in single-payer health care and social security, and I don't believe in capitalism and government meddling in my sexual preferences. I don't like what either the republican or democrat politicians have become. I don't like the spinelessness of the democrats and the religious meddling of the republicans. I could go on and on about what I don't like about them but that wouldn't solve anything. I'm mainly just commenting that the labels are becoming meaningless to me.