Does conservative hypocrisy infuriate anybody else?

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I am saying this as someone who takes animals and debris out of a busy street, who helps neighbors and coworkers fix machines, etc, when asked.

Most people, on either side of the political divide, got their status by luck or appointment, would not succeed, based on their own merits, whether lowly or elitist.

I have issues with both left and right hypocrisy.

For the Right, my biggest issues are:
1. They say they're against big government, and then they turn around and say they want to put laws on gay marriage (and other gay rights), and women's bodies (specifically abortion).

2. They say they think every child deserves to live, but they don't want that living child to get food stamps or free health care, even though letting that dependent disabled child of a disabled/homeless/formerly addicted or currently addicted single mother/with a high school education/the woman's elderly mother (because the woman died in childbirth) would likely need those things to survive, let alone thrive (assuming that's even possible). Whether you agree/disagree with abortion on principle or have a more nuanced view, regulating the bodies of half the population is big government. And a small government lets children's families raise them, not the state.

3. So many representatives from the party use religion and "traditional values" to support their stance on gay rights, but ask your Priest/Rabbi/Minister/whatever text you follow about helping the poor and the downtrodden. They're going to tell you that you should, as someone with more, support these people- provide them with food them, tend to them when they're sick, shelter them from the storm, etc. Now, while I personally believe in taking a personal/Church/Temple approach to these matters, I also wouldn't use religion to justify my stance on a political issue. I also don't think gay marriage should even be a political issue, because as far as I'm concerned, marriage should be between the happy couple and their Priest/Rabbi, and rights/privileges bestowed to the couple should follow as naturally as they would for a straight couple, but that's a separate issue than what we're talking about here.

4. Speaking of welfare, let's talk corporate. If we could all agree that the individual or family should not get welfare or there should be time limits imposed on that welfare, then shouldn't corporations (as people, which for tax purposes they are) be subject to the same limitations? If I got to choose between repairing infrastructure or giving corporations my tax money as well as my spent money, I would choose the infrastructure. Some of that stuff was last repaired during the Great Depression. It's time.


*The "they" I refer to are party representatives. It would be unfair to judge a movement by random examples from my own life of people who purport to support it.

**For the record, I am neither Left nor Right. I'd be glad to point out Left hypocrisy too.

Also, in regard to the OP: It is against PPR rules to call Conservatives (which are usually aka Republicans), or any other people, idiots (copied and pasted):

You're allowing the possibility that something is alive or has free will, then, that it can be controlled or killed.

Do you know the origins of the word, ped-agogue?