Is the real agenda of conservatives to simply destroy the concept of government itself?

[begin_within]

Starve the beast.
Deregulate.
Privatize.
Cut taxes.

It seems like everything to do is anti-government. Isn't what they really want is to get rid of government altogether, and replace it with a privately-owned power structure?

[leftofthedial]

1. they want a kind of corporate feudalism

and they practically have it

[fulllib]

2. As Al Franken says

They campaign on the fact that government doesn't work, and then they spend their tenure proving it.

[rwheeler31]

3. Yes

[pinto]

4. Basically, at least at the federal level, especially since Ronald Reagan on down the line.

[fed_up_mother]

5. It's not the real conservatives - that's the neocons and multinationalist corporate pigs

[prayin4rain]

6. hahahha lol at your picture!!!! n/t

[jpgray]

7. They want fascism--an alliance of government and corporate power

They want huge government contracts, favoritism in what regulation exists, and taxpayer money to bail out risky investments.

[tularetom]

8. Nah, the real agenda is to make as much money as you can by any means possible

Where government can assist in this endeavor, it may be used. Where it is perceived that government will be an impediment, it must be destroyed or at least demonized.

[alfredo]

9. Iraq was a proof of concept. It didn't work.

[An Intellectual]

10. No, that would be the libertarians' plan. Conservatives, on the other hand...

... ultimately want aristocracy.

Here is the libertarians' plan: agorism. You can't make this shit up! Those fuckers are celebrating as you are losing your retirement!

[Stellabella]

11. Yes.

After they bleed it dry for themselves, of course.

[sinkingfeeling]

12. No, I think their goal is to make as much 'wealth' as they can while not contributing anything,

including paying any taxes and inventing new schemes to put a 'needed' middleman into everything transaction they can. They are only concerned about themselves. With so much money they know they can afford any 'service' of the government without it.