I'm From The Government And I'm Here To Help According to Reagan, that's the scariest sentence ever spoken. Hardcore conservatives believe that the government should be trimmed down to the bare essentials; they envision a low service, low tax Eutopia where Americans don't spend money on frivolous things like Social Security or Public Education. Guess what happens when people who don't believe in government assume control of the goverment? You get clusterf*cks like Katrina, that's what. Nobody has explained the anti-democratic leanings of the conservatives better than Thomas Frank. This is required reading, and yes, this will be on the final exam. Read It.