Even more pathetic is their hatred for dei programs is mostly because they can't stand the idea that those they perceive as below them, "getting ahead" of them, somehow.

For the party of bootstrap pullers, they sure do hate doing much about their own situation besides scams and violence, while being told the billionaires at the top just pulled on their straps a bit harder, not that they were given rocket boots.

Because a coward with a gun is still a coward.