Quote Originally Posted by waywardgs View Post
I'm curious about people who don't trust the government to be competent enough to run a website, develop a cogent health care system or nearly anything else but see no issue with giving it the right to kill citizens through its court system.
To borrow a phrase from Ravenwood, here's your answer in a coconut shell.

Kimmel proposes a theory of aggrieved entitlement: a sense that the benefits to which white men long believed themselves entitled have been snatched from them. Kimmel locates the increase in anger with a growing social, political, and economic gender gap, twinned with an ideology of masculinity that makes America's white men feel empty and alone. Although they have been facing years of underemployment and wage stagnation, mainstream American discourse rarely discuss class issues. So when America's white men feel they've lived their lives the "right" way-worked hard-and still do not get the rewards to which they believe they are entitled, then they have to blame somebody else. Anybody else.