The saying goes: "If liberals had any brains they'd be conservatives, and if conservatives had any heart, they'd be liberals."Conservatives are said to have no heart. They must not care about the poor, it is said, or they'd want more government programs to help the poor, etc.
"Conservatives are more likely to give than Liberals and give more, even in blood donations. They are also twice as likely to attend religious worship. But still... Religious people give more to secular causes than do secular people." (mint.com blog)
they know "...that it is [Conservatives] who are motivated by compassion, and that their cold-heartedness is only apparent. They are the ones who have taken up the cause of society, and who are prepared to pay the cost of upholding the principles on which we all -- liberals included -- depend.
To be known as a social conservative is to lose all hope of an academic career; it is to be denied any chance of those prestigious prizes, from the MacArthur to the Nobel Peace Prize, which liberals confer only on each other. For an intellectual it is to throw away the prospect of a favorable review -- or any review at all -- in the New York Times or the New York Review of Books.
Only someone with a conscience could possibly wish to expose himself to the inevitable vilification that attends such an "enemy of the people." And this proves that the conservative conscience is governed not by self-interest but by a concern for the public good. Why else would anyone express it?" (Totalitarian Sentimentality by Roger Scruton)
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