Dissonance

Why is it that "the government" is construed by conservatives as this sort of "other" Entity That Screws Up Everything And Thus Will Ruin Healthcare, but they are comfortable with saying that "We" won world war II and "We" won the cold war and "We" have the best highway system in the world and "we" landed a man on the moon?

Yeesh. The cognitive dissonance must keep aspirin sales healthy among conservatives.

Good Question

[C]an someone explain to me how [the conservative base] can live with the dissonance in their heads when they say in one breath that the Bush administration was absolutely right to employ torture, secret prisons and indefinite detention and in the next breath scream like banshees that Obama is the second coming of Hitler and Stalin, the two most infamous purveyors of torture, secret prisons and indefinite detention of the 20th century?