I Wonder If GOPPERS In Flooding Pennsylvania/NY Understand The Importance Of Government.

[TheMastersNemesis]

When you see these disasters and you see government respond and help people and save people I wonder if Republicans who have government understand the necessity of government and well paid government employees. These same fools vote for politicians who want to cut taxes, privatize first responders, shut down government services etc etc etc.

So I do not get the disconnect. These same fools whose asses are saved by public employees are the first who want to fuck them.

[Roland99]

1. ....

https://goo.gl/images/VnAexZ

[Trust Buster]

2. They have always understood the importance of government. Just for their kind though.

[Blue_true]

6. Bingo. nt

[Moral Compass]

3. It is actually worse than that...

Many of these fools are actually public employees or members of the military who for some reason don't see that those tax dollars pay their salaries and create the organizations that they serve.

I know a customs agent who is utterly anti-government. Bet she thinks she's a libertarian. The cognitive dissonance makes my head ache.

An acquaintance that I know works for FEMA and is a specialist in radio communications and often travels to what most of us consider the armpits and assholes of the world. He's a right winger who would probably term himself a libertarian. He wouldn't know what actual libertarianism is if it bit him sharply on the ass. He will be able to retire at 55 with a federal pension. He is already getting a small VA payment per month for some small percentage of defined disability. I guarantee you he is incapable of perceiving the disconnect and he reliably votes for whatever Republican runs for whatever office.

These people don't think. A lot of people don't think. And it isn't getting better.

Very few people actually have any understanding of how our system of government is supposed to work and are completely okay with the grotesque abuses of power that Trump and his appointees commit on a daily basis.

[lunasun]

4. Yeah I am so done with these types no matter their service given . Not dissing them just

please don't talk to me and waste my time

[VOX]

5. Look at Kansas. They can't get enough shitty government.

That sorry State was used as an example of the destructiveness of far-right, “anti elite,” wealth-flows-upwards government back in 2004, in Thomas Frank’s bestseller, “What's the Matter with Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Heart of America.”

And, as of today, they have a Trumpist governor. It is completely insane. Apparently, Kansas is populated with masochists.

[Blue_true]

7. Kansas has been overrun by the fusion of religion and government.

That started happening about the time LGBTQ rights were becoming a national issue that warranted effective policy to fight discrimination. The antichoice and anti women's rights movement has their center of gravity there also.

[Deb]

8. Are you rural?

Do you know what it's like to survive in an emergency without government services? Rural folks do and I believe it to be a great contributor as to why many have no use for it.