Liberals are scheming Satanist weasels rather than truly compassionate (this article is far too charitable towards liberals). Every candidate who called himself a “compassionate conservative” also revealed himself as a scheming moonbat, so a reflexive distrust of politicians and theorists who emphasize “compassion” will serve one well.
In reality, compassion is a finite resource from man but an infinite resource from the LORD. Leftists pretend to focus on compassion at the expense of other values; they love to misquote the “turn the other cheek” verse and say that conservatives should just lie down and take it from criminals because criminals have had “hard lives” or some other gobbledygook. They may be deluded enough to believe that they have infinite compassion, but tell them that you believe in compassion for the wealthy and the middle class by cutting their taxes, and their heads will explode!
True compassion is setting up a society which follows God’s laws and ONLY God’s laws. Government beyond God’s laws is inherently evil and elitist; government without God’s laws is anarchic and hedonistic. True compassion is introducing Scripture to those who seek, and destroying those who wish to inhibit others from learning about Scripture. True compassion has nothing to do with stealing material goods from others and giving them to the lazy, and contrary to popular cliches has nothing to do with mandating “hand-ups”; true compassion has nothing to do with the material world.
In the end, the only poverty line which matters is God’s poverty line.
To quote Jack Kemp, “Liberals measure their compassion by how many people they’re helping. We measure compassion by how many people no longer need our help.”