One of the main political left’s objectives is to increase the size of the government via programs, contracts and bureaucracy, is a means to gain more power and votes. The ends ultimately has nothing to do with benefiting constituents or civilization, all that is just a bogus facade. In other words, they prefer to shoot themselves in the butt and damage the country first before relinquishing any power, so of course reducing the size of government is going to annoy the heck out of them.