Oftencold
DP Veteran
- Joined
- Dec 10, 2008
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- Location
- A small village in Alaska
- Gender
- Male
- Political Leaning
- Very Conservative
I notice that my Liberal neighbors are constantly talking about how much more they care about the poor, the downtrodden and the unfortunate.
I have always suspected that thus was nonsense, and now it seems that there is some concrete proof, and a dawning awareness of this truth on the Left.
I expect that there will be some denials, protestations and accusations of deceit. It should be entertaining.
I have always suspected that thus was nonsense, and now it seems that there is some concrete proof, and a dawning awareness of this truth on the Left.
“When I started doing research on charity,” Mr. Brooks wrote, “I expected to find that political liberals — who, I believed, genuinely cared more about others than conservatives did — would turn out to be the most privately charitable people. So when my early findings led me to the opposite conclusion, I assumed I had made some sort of technical error. I re-ran analyses. I got new data. Nothing worked. In the end, I had no option but to change my views.”
LINKConservatives also appear to be more generous than liberals in nonfinancial ways. People in red states are considerably more likely to volunteer for good causes, and conservatives give blood more often. If liberals and moderates gave blood as often as conservatives, Mr. Brooks said, the American blood supply would increase by 45 percent.
I expect that there will be some denials, protestations and accusations of deceit. It should be entertaining.