No, they don’t see the money as a tribute to god/guv.
They see the money as rightfully belonging to themselves
just because, well, they’re here and alive. I have to
say they have some precedent for that. Obama won
the Nobel Prize for just being who he was.
Well, they want to be the force behind that god of government (to be the more than equals, as Animal Farm put it). But it has to have a government that is due tribute first, before it can go any further.