Liberal loopiness

Here's a really profound (but inconsistent) loop (the best kind):

Why are those Americans who are most distrustful of the U.S. government, and so eager to undermine it, the same ones who are most desperate to give it control over their own lives?

I'm not sure if Abe Greenwald's answer is the right one: 

This paradoxical political posturing resembles nothing so much as middle-class adolescent rebellion.

Rather, I wonder if this might be an insight into the ultimate paradox of liberalism -- it is fundamentally inconsistent and/or incomplete: a judgment that does not require a Gödelian proof.