What We Have Here is a Failure to Communicate

How can this be? Those who identify as Republican would rather see cuts in military spending than cuts to Medicare or Social Security?

It seems as if the party that wants to privatize Social Security and do away with Medicare because it believes both programs are unconstitutional does a really crappy job at representing the views of its members.

Of course this is nothing new to people who pay attention to politics.  Republicans are not against social services no more than they are against low taxes.

People expect Democrats to support cuts in military spending over social services. The public expects a poll to show Democrats favor higher taxes over spending cuts to programs that benefit people.  And the poll does just that.  It also demonstrates Republicans aren't as anti-government or as conservative as they want you to believe. But let's pretend that they are so we can continue with our insane national debate about the role of government and who knows the intentions of the founders the best.