What's pleasurable about reading the fiction of ideologues like Tim is the smack-down tone of their prejudices. Fake, fake, fake. Nowhere in Tim's spew is the recognition that the largest beneficiaries of government favoritism are corporations and wealthy individuals like himself, especially those associated with the greeders of the defense industry, rather the national security state. No US institution has been uncontaminated by the wealth generated by the illusion of US enemies and the raping of the economy to simulate battle with such fictional threats, at home and abroad. Welfare is puny by comparison, and Tim's castigation of it is like the master of the house bitching about health needs of his servants while requiring them to wipe his ass. Standard nouveau riche conceit which reveals a fear of again being a poor asswipe himself, the stench of self-loathing inescapable. The favorite mindlessness of the ideologue, is to rehash endlessly comfortable old prejudices, chanting repetitively the same accusations, avoiding self-criticism in the manner of the self-righteous, professing of certainty to conceal doubt, working hard to present an image of confidence, most often by blaming and attacking easy targets. The rich fear the poor, and rightly so, for they know who pays for their perks. And the answer to this fear is always threats of violence, the dominant paradigm of those who reap the most benefits from house rules of the United States. Cloaked, as ever, in blind faith in the "Constitution," or another rigged fat cat document used to fleece the peasants at home and abroad, based as they always are on justification of the supremacy of the over-privileged. Eveready to shoot those who disagree, send them up the chimneys, the teenie-bopper ideologue struts mightily against imaginary demons. Wasn't it a leftist who coined Goldwater's most memorable phrase? Extremists are all alike, full of shit and hatred, their own worst enemy. Suicide prone, but afraid to go alone.