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My favorite are the guys who rail against socialized medicine while simultaneously praising the care they get from the VA.

I think a lot of these people just subconsciously see "the government" as simply not including the security apparatus.

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Reminds me of the tea party protesters that had signs like: "Keep your government hands off my medicare!" at Obamacare rallies.

So because the government feeds its soldiers it would be hypocritical or illogical to rail against nationalizing farms and supermarkets?

If the government did a good job of feeding its soldiers such that every time you get a government meal you're talking about how great it is, it would be inconsistent to say that government-provided meals are a disaster and that nationalizing meals would make everything related to it terrible.

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