However, the people elected the government, so the majority (of the electorate) believe in the government, and therefore are also the horrible.
You know, Crucifer, back in 2000 I supported George Dubya. Now, to be fair, I was 14 (obviously I couldn't vote then, so I didn't do any "damage" from your perspective). Since then, I've modified or changed my position on a majority of issues and embrace a set of so-called "liberal San Francisco values" that Bush's ilk think are destroying America. That seven year transformation was largely the result of interacting with and listening to the reasoning of moderates and liberals, who used logic to persuade me of the correctness of their positions. In some cases, they succeeded; in other cases, they're still trying to persuade me.
(And I am still open to being persuaded back the other way on most issues by conservatives who use logic rather than ad hominems.) But I'm pretty certain I would still be a right-leaning, "family values" type conservative (no, really, I'm not making this up) if those who disagreed with me had broadly proclaimed that I was "the horrible" for the way I was thinking.
Plus, as Lali says, a lot of people voted for W not knowing all the ways in which he would turn out to be bad. If September 11 had never happened, who can say how his terms would have gone? His approval ratings were sky high, and in some ways, things weren't nearly as bad before then.
So right now, I am open and vocally opposed to the government, which hopefully redeems my past harmless support of Dubya in your eyes. At least I'm not a 'Hippocrat' by your definition.