formerly Conservative Republicans who have given up the notion of having a moral government and are tired of funding an immoral government”
Government can’t be moral. It’s the very definition of a necessary evil, therefore it should be just small enough to be able to fulfill very strictly enumerated functions and no larger or more powerful.
the best way to model how large and powerful government (or any organization) should ever be is to envision the most evil and dangerous possible people running it.
What brought me into the Tea Party movement was the endless whining from the left about the “less fortunate” and how I am somehow personally responsible for all of the high school drop outs, drug addicts, habitual criminals, welfare brood mares, underfunded social causes, blah blah blah. While the parasites were living large without a care, I was working my ass off at two jobs to pay for school, I was putting the hours necessary to set the stage for a better life later on. I was investing in me. What I earn is based on my efforts, my time, my sense of responsibility, and my desire to remain free and unbeholden to any entity. When you take by force, my money, you have taken my time and my energy. You have taken a small part of my freedom, and I will fight to the death to preserve it. I am politically incorrect and obnoxiously insensitive. Your life isn’t as good as mine? Screw you. Work harder. I don’t envy the successful, I emulate their efforts in hopes of joining them eventually, and I won’t let any person or government deprive me of the opportunity to achieve my goals.