Liberal points out the key flaw in rightist thinking.

Liberalism to my mind is a halfway house, a truth is somewhere in the middle piece of bullshit that isn't as bad as rightist ideologies but certainly isn't an ideology that promotes a humane society. Regardless though, an American who blogs for the Guardian gives his reaction to Glenn Beck and his corporate masters' first move to hijacking the 50th anniversary of the I have a dream speech. Bear in mind we're three anniversaries away from it, if they can make this Beckathon an annual thing then by the time the 50th anniversary comes around they can claim it is their day and the Blacks are johnny come latelies who are impinging on their rights to assemble etc and they can have their own celebration for noted Republican MLK elsewhere. Which the corporate media will back them to the hilt over. But thats not relevant to the discussion here.

Michael Tomasky really does sum up the rightist mindset excellently and while I recommend you read all of it this paragraph is particularly good:

The two problems here are, first, that while they think they owe government nothing, they actually owe government a great deal. If they're small business people, they depend on the freight rails and the roadways and the utilities and the regulation of interstate commerce and the laws that keep their crooked competitors from undercutting them and the courts' abilities to enforce those laws. Without question the government is an annoyance in their lives in dozens of ways. But they don't see any of the good, only the bad. If you tote it up, the government helps them a lot more than it hurts them, and if they think not, let them go open a hardware store in downtown Mogadishu and see how that works out.

So yeah, Rightists are short sighted hypocrites.