Who's More Compassionate: The Left or the Right?

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🗓️ 9 January 2019

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Democrats often think of themselves as kind and caring, and of Republicans as callous and mean-spirited. But why? Are Progressive policies more likely to raise people out of poverty than conservative ones? And what really counts as "kind": supporting policies that feel good? Or supporting policies that do good? William Voegeli, Senior Editor of the Claremont Review of Books, explains. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	What's the major difference between liberals and conservatives?
0:04.2	For liberals, the answer is easy.
0:06.8	Liberals are compassionate and conservatives are mean.
0:11.5	I am a liberal public radio host,
0:13.5	Garrison Keeler, wrote in 2004,
0:16.6	and liberalism is the politics of kindness.
0:20.4	President Barack Obama agrees.
0:23.4	Kindness covers all of my political beliefs, he has said.
0:27.5	Earlier in his political career,
0:29.8	Senator Obama urged college students
0:33.2	to broaden your ambit of concern
0:35.7	and empathize with the plate of others.
0:38.6	If liberalism is the politics of kindness,
0:42.0	it follows that conservatism must be the opposite, heartless.
0:47.5	New York Times columnist Paul Krugman
0:49.7	contends that conservatives want to limit
0:52.2	government spending on social welfare programs
0:55.2	because they take positive glee
0:57.5	in inflicting further suffering on the already miserable.
1:01.6	Is this characterization fair?
1:04.3	Is it accurate?
1:06.0	Hardly.
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