That's What We Had To Eat...Without a Spoon

Two samples of the same thing, really:

• Another Republican confused by same-sex marriage:

  LOL. Yes, it’s always, always all about the free ride with Republicans, isn’t it? Hilarious.
  
  I just have one question: say you’re a straight person wanting a “free ride” — maybe it’s getting on someone’s health insurance. Why would a straight person marry someone of the same sex to get that free ride? Why wouldn’t they just marry someone of the opposite sex? I mean, I’m sure that’s happened. We’ve all heard of green card marriages and whatnot. It’s not like straight people didn’t invent the marriage of convenience a thousand years ago.
  
  So, that made no sense to me. Also, this:
  

  Everhart said if she had a young child, she wouldn’t want them to have gay parents who would influence that child’s sexual orientation.

  You know, there’s this amazing fun fact that Sue Everhart needs to consider: the vast majority of gay people had straight parents! I know, totally weird, huh?

• The authoritarian imperative:

  This is a recurring trait among authoritarians (looked at in most detail previously here) – they truly believe that they should be able to control other people's lives and make decisions that are none of their damn business.
  This attitude isn't limited to far-right social conservatives, however. Mitt Romney's campaign remarks about 47% of Americans being 'takers' focused more on economic/fiscal issues (also the idea of a social contract), but weren't that different. Like Fagan, Romney's accusations are grossly counterfactual, and like Fagan, there's a mean streak there – a sense of entitlement, and resentment, and a desire to punish his less-fortunate fellow Americans (certainly if one looked at his budget plan).

  [Warning for some ableist language.]

It's control-freaks vs. non-control-freaks, and that never ends well, even with non-control-freaks' numerical superiority.  On the other hand, non-control-freaks are liquid and slither and dribble and otherwise ooze out.  Non-control-freaks win in the long run.  Which makes control-freaks...very unhappy.