Isn't true about that Koch brothers and others..

[warrior1]

do not want government in their business, to pay taxes, etc...but wouldn't really care if the rest of us did pay? Because really in their world if there wasn't a tax system our government would collapse and our way of life would be over? They couldn't really afford the anarchy that would come if all of us didn't help make this country run.

My point is, why isn't the teabaggers aware of this. Why don't they get it.

[warrior1]

1. Good read.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2010/9/5/897174/-The-Charlatan

[elleng]

2. Requires too much thinking/analysis, NOT their thing.

[MisterP]

3. baggers, libertarians, and most conservatives who're conservative for economic reasons

see themselves as deserving winners, because they were ants who stocked up on wealth and guns while the urban grasshoppers refused to save or "get a good jobTM." This was the survivalism boom of circa 1977-94, when they said--gleefully--that postapocalyptic life would be tough, but that THEY (of course), would Pull Through because they had cans and ammo. Problem is, survivalists are inherently parasitic, whether off the bear and deer they envision eating (unto extinction, presumably) or off postapocalyptic aid workers (as in The Postman). Thus, the Kochs and the Bushes presume that they'd survive without the state guaranteeing the production that made them rich--but reliance on mercs, exponential population growth, and consumption of the environment can only go so far.

the conservative worldview is that, no matter what the circumstances, they'd be superior, successful, and prosperous, solely because of superior foresight, entrepreneurialism, smart risk-taking, work ethic, and self-control. they can't see themselves as victims, hence microgenital Ted Nugent's shreiks of "don't be a victim" and gun nuts' near-sexual relation of tales of victimhood averted by guns or assertions that family X would've lived it it had guns and a bunker mentality.

to them, capitalism lets the cream (them) rise to the top, and their unemployment benefits and government subsidies are just things that "got them on their feet again"--not things that prevented them from having to sell their possessions and sinking into poverty (since that would consciously acknowledge the possibility of defeat; unconsciously, that's their greatest fear)