We just don't need it and don't want to be dependent on it. There are enough doomsayers out there, there always have been. Conditions have always been pretty much the same. If the worst never happens, we can happily go on with our lives. But you don't have to look too far to see that things are getting more dangerous everywhere and that government, although it grows bigger, is less effective than ever before.
Natural disasters are at an all-time high.
Government spending is at an all-time high. The birth and growth of the Reform Party clearly indicates that there are still a growing number of people fed up with big government. More people voted Libertarian in 1996 than in any previous election. The status quo, to millions of Americans, is not acceptable.