when they can use government to regulate vaginas or degregulate guns they are A-OK with it

They love the subsidies to big oil, big agricultural outfits, military contractors, and road-builders. They love the government policies that subsidize out-sourcing jobs to low-wage nations. They love the government tax policies that shift the cost-burden of sustaining this society onto the poor and the shrinking middle class. They love running us big deficits to fund wars of choice.

No, it's not that the right hates government. They love it. They just don't want to pay for it.

Ronald Reagan famously said that government was not the solution to our problems as a nation. Reagan said government is the problem. Taken literally, that's complete crap, of course, but it was code for "all liberal government initiatives are bad, and they should be destroyed ASAP." Now, some thirty years later, the right continues its work of slowly eroding the progress made during the 20th century to make America richer, more equal, and more just.

-Laelth

They're also A-OK with invading nations for oil & empire - as long as a repug is at the helm the executive branch. Same with suspending or diluting basic rights guaranteed in the Constitution ('Patriot' Act).

Here's a handy chart of rebuttals to any given RW argument against 'big gummint':

http://www.governmentisgood.com/feature.php?fid=14

support the people. Even the so called libertarians support this ideology. Late stage capitalism.

It will get more & more predatory. Maybe people will wake up before it devours us. Oh, my bad. We're at 400ppm, & the party is still going strong. I wonder if the human collective feels that we're toast & so that's why we're partying like it's 1999? If we survive this century, will humans will look back at this time & wonder what the fuck?

I've almost finished "The Year of the Flood" & in that frame of mind. An excellent book.

I guess the old adage about a blind squirrel occasionally finding a nut has a bit of truth to it.

But in general I think the disagreement between the parties on the role of government can be boiled down to whats discussed in this video - and that it goes beyond parties and labels like left and right.

Ignorant, Racist, Superstitious, Low Information Voters. Fuck em, one cannot reason with them nor deal with them on any level. Best thing to do is give em the finger and move on.

... Rush who use their anger at all the outrages they have to suffer to voting time
after time against their own best interests. Add in having a black man as President
and their blood just boils and their brains shut down to the point that they really
think that Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton watched the attack on the Americans
in Benghazi on a live video feed and did nothing because they are so evil.

are the government. I like reminding the tea baggers of that little fact!

"We the People" means government "of, for, and by" the people.

Libertarians and Teapublicans want government "of, for , and by" the corporation.

They hate "Big Government, but love "Big Corporation."

They are "authoritarians": They love being told what to think, say, and do...

just saying

It will make the Baby Jesus cry.

they themselves/their family/friends end up suffering/having more stress/having less security than would be with a strong social safety net.

They deem groups of people unworthy and they get PISSED when those groups get any services from the government that provide them with some dignity and respect in their lives.

Their hatred allows for the 1% to continue to amass more and more of the nation's wealth and income all so that the unworthy don't get things they don't deserve. They are complete idiots and useful rubes for the plutocrats.

For the life of me I can't understand how so many working-class American conservatives are so willing and/or eager to accept cuts to the social safety net AT THE SAME TIME that conservative politicians want to 1) lower (or even eliminate - i.e., capital gains and estate taxes) tax rates on the wealthy, 2) lower corporate tax rates at a time when corporations are paying such low EFFECTIVE tax rates AND we have a deficit that they supposedly care so very much about, 3) trends in income and wealth inequality over the last four decades already show such high levels of inequality (even more than the first robber baron and gilded age years) and the policies their politicians want to enact will clearly exacerbate those trends much, much more.

The stated economic policies of conservative Republicans will knee-cap the middle class, working class, and poor all to the benefit of the elite. But those damn gays, blacks, Hispanics, women, etc. will be put in their place so it's all good!!

It's hard not to feel complete contempt for many of them on most days.

the Government to carry out their Wars against everybodyelse. When the Government defends everybody, they object. It is all connected to the Groups on the Right mostly, they are better than everybodyelse. They continue to forget probably the most important part of U.S. History and always reference back to the Revolutionary War against Britain. That part is the Civil War and the amendment of the U.S. Constitution, extending equal rights to more Americans that was excluded in the first Constitution. That War, decided the difference between States' Rights and the Federal Government. What these people want to do is fight that War again. Just think about the lady on the Right claiming the Republican Party should appeal to only white people. That is her America. Does she really think people who don't fit her description of Americans will sit around and allow her to discriminate against them, without another conflict? Just what is the end game for those people who think like this woman?

The NRC loves government when they have control of all branches. Please review the GW Bush administration for government run amock for reckless abandon of larger government, lawlessness and fruitless spending with enormous debt yet to be paid.

Speaking in regard to a comedian on a show called "Politically Incorrect" who happened to say something not entirely complimentary about some government employees.

Ari was and is a Republican.

I think one reason they hate government is because government has been involved in doing those things that they did not want done..civil rights for blacks, equal treatment for women and restraining the power of big business and capital.

for those in the bottom rungs of society. immigrants, young people, and displaced workers.

sure they're doing the bidding of billionaires, but at the end of the day, they're fighting for their right to become slaves.

insane.

I've often thought that the current "anti-government" mind-set was fueled, at least in part, by the youthful baby boomers anti-government stands in the 60s/70s and then Nixon's proving the boomers correct in their accusations. I don't think it's a coincidence that most of the current Teabaggers are Boomers. SOME of this generation (I was and am a part of this generation) saw the Vietnam and the draft as a government conspiracy to kill us. Others of this generation thought the anti-war demonstrators were traitors because the government implied that we were. When these believers were betrayed by the very government they supported, it left a deep scar that affects their mindsets to this day.

What they AND even a large proportion of the anti-war group didn't realize was that the government was just a hireling of the system that CONTROLS the government. Of course, that system is capitalism and the wars were being fought to counter the degenerated workers' state of the USSR AND for capitalist expansion. And of course a majority STILL don't get that very fact. They blame the government for the wrongs committed against the people when the true villains were the owners who rule BEHIND the scenes. They blame the puppets while the puppeteers stay hidden. That's why none of the abuses of "government" get corrected. The abuses remain no matter how many actors on the political stage are changed out.

That's the last thing teabaggers want to be.