Charity
Date: February 24th 2010
Charity
Have you ever wondered about the fundamental difference between conservatives and liberals? Have you said to yourself, “Gosh darn and doggone it, why are people so disagreeable when it comes to politics?” (Or something along those lines but less Sarah Palin-ish?)
Turns out there’s a simple explanation.
If we sneak past the emotional caricatures we draw of each other, and stop hating each other for a minute, we find a seemingly-innocuous but important dispute about the concept of charity. This dispute is the crux of disagreements between the political right and the political left.
While conservatives are against government giveaways, it’s not because they want the poor and needy to be denied – in fact, conservatives give away a higher percentage of their incomes than liberals (something which is inevitably an embarrassment to Democrats when they run for national office and have to admit their stinginess in financial disclosures).
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