Why does the government hate its people?
Of course it isn't the government which 'hates', but rather a certain type of voter (Republican). It would be odd if the rich hated their poors - sort of like a farming hating his cows. That isn't really what we're talking about here. The key to understanding America's pervasive class-hate and racism is that the people hating the poors are in fact (functionally/power-wise) poors themselves, and this is all part of the clever divide-and-conquer strategy of our ruling class.
Some of those people are poors themselves, opebo, but I'd actually argue that many of the worst offenders in the Tea Party Right are middle to upper-middle class in status, either self-employed (or were at one point, many of them are retired) business owners, all levels of management, professionals whose livelihoods don't depend on the public sector (at least, not directly
), with the exception of the "national defense" parts of the State (military, criminal justice, etc.-military officers, law enforcement, etc. skew Republican).
