Robert F. Kennedy said, "There are those who look at things the way they are and ask why...I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?"
That might be one of the most animating of liberal statements ever made. It's too bad it seems to amount to no more than words to the majority of it's adherents. Liberals are good with the words, not so good at putting their money behind their rhetoric. Conservatives are much better at thinking charitably and acting monetarily. And the most generous of those conservatives are those religious "nut cases". Liberals are content, not "apparently content", to inventory our list of problems. Conservatives are quietly spending their own money to address those problems. And the next time you hear somebody decrying the religious right in America, try to remember that they're actually talking about the most generous segment of American society. The segment that puts it's money where others only put their mouth.
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