As I've said before, what's been obvious from the debate over health care is that Democrats are committed to building community while Republicans just want to be left alone.. . . "Pay their own way" is a perfect metaphor for the Republican Party's idea of community, says Chait, an ugly place where the law of the jungle holds sway, survival of the fittest prevails and the very idea of insurance is attacked as a corrupting force that undermines "personal responsibility." . . . Conservatism is supposed to be about conserving those values and practices which promote peaceful, harmonious and stable communities. Instead, much of what currently passes for conservatism seems dedicated to their dissolution, as community ties are weakened, the softer virtues like empathy and compassion which act as a society's connective tissue are dislocated, and any sense of common destiny is carpet-bombed out of existence by FOX, by Rush and by harpies like Michelle Malkin and Ann Coulter who tell their audiences that it's not only okay to hate -- it's righteous!
that is what makes me so angry with those people --- it's not "just politics" --- and it explains why they went after acorn the way they did
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