Conservative Government -- NOT of the people, by the people, and sure as hell not FOR the people, unless you're the 1%

Tea Partiers and other radical righties consistently vote against their own self-interest, and against the interest of their states and the nation, in the mistaken notion that somehow this will all work out for the better.

It never does, but the delusional ideologic poisoning has made them addictive to consistently doing the wrong thing, over and over and over, unable to change.

Because conservatives consistently believe things that are not true -- and then get angry, and blame liberals for their failures.