[Originally published in The Voluntaryist, thoughts by Chris LeRoux]
Democrats, liberals, socialists are typically envious authoritarians who always want more rules. Generally speaking, they don't even care what rules, as long as it is more, for instance when they call for "more regulation", as if that means anything.
But, conservatives, republicans, fascists on the other hand are just flat out pathetic. They seemingly never tire of losing. The government's tyranny just keeps growing and they keep on worshiping it, lighting off fireworks, and drooling over the government's stupid flag. They seemingly only care about one issue: having the most powerful, aggressive, tyrannical, socialized military in world history. As long as the government is bombing a lot of people, they feel important and powerful. They tend to oppose other expansions of government, for a little while; but they eventually become hardcore defenders.
Once, they rightfully said social [in]security was socialist and opposed it; same with medicare, medicaid, food stamps, and so on. Now, they fully accept these evils, just mouthing empty words about trimming them, always to shift funding to the warfare state. They are essentially democrats, but 10-20 years behind democrats, aside from their fetish for endless war - not that the democrats don't love war, as long as it is a democratic president.
