Liberals are more selfish than conservatives

Townhall.com ^ | 9-16-09 | Ashley Herzog

[AshleyHerzog]

For liberals, the health care debate apparently boils down to the psychological qualities of the two sides. Nice people want socialized medicine, and mean, selfish people don’t. Last week, blogger Amanda Marcotte declared that an individual’s support for the public option—including taxpayer-funded healthcare for illegals—depends on whether that individual developed “a sense of empathy in early childhood.” (Yes, she really said that.)

As long as liberals are going to play psychologist and turn a serious policy debate into petty speculation about their opponents’ emotional states, they should read “Makers and Takers” by Peter Schweizer. Afterward, they might just shut up about liberals being nicer and more generous than the rest of us.

[AshleyHerzog]

My new column.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Arthur C. Brooks, author of “Who Really Cares?” found that charitable donations average $2,210 for conservatives and a paltry $642 for liberals

Liberals only like to give away OTHER PEOPLE'S MONEY. If Brooks had figured in our taxpayer dollars, the liberals would have clobbered our side.

Good job on the column. FACTS and FIGURES.

[fkabuckeyesrule]

****blogger Amanda Marcotte****

Seems to me I've heard that name before. She was an Edwards blogger and got in trouble for trashing religious conservatives.

[TexasFreeper2009]

I can turn that right around on liberals and say that the mental illness which is liberalism comes directly from a child not having been exposed to the story of “the grasshopper and the ant” at a young age.

Because anyone who read that as a child knows that the grasshopper got what he deserved.

[webstersII]

Excellent article.