well, i don't think the role of government is to keep people safe, and i'm going to unload on you as a fascist if you drop a line like that to my face. if that's what you think, you are my enemy and need to be destroyed.
do i think the role of government is to act as a layer for capital to buy legislation? well, there's ought to be and actually is, right? i don't think that ought to be true, but i realize it actually is in a capitalist state. and, because i'm a radical socialist and not a reformist, i don't actually think it's useful to try to regulate capitalism - and even largely agree with the libertarian right on a lot of points, in their arguments that trying to regulate capital just makes it worse (although they of course don't articulate it that way, we're basically making the same arguments about regulatory capture and inefficiency).
i'm an anarchist, so i don't want a totally planned economy. there's some role for worker communes, as well.
but, the role of government should be to centralize production in some abstraction - not to write laws that keep us safe (which is a mentality that needs to be eradicated) or to sell policy to the highest bidder (which is the status quo that needs to be overturned).
but, i'll usually align with realistic liberals over ideological conservatives, when they exist - which is scarce, nowadays. a lot of socialists won't...