Rather, you hear Bill Clinton brazenly claiming authorship for a welfare reform bill he signed only under duress the third time it was presented to him. And you hear louder demands for yet more education funds to pour down that federal rat hole. No, the irrational calls for more federal money just intensify. Sadly, liberalism's fundamental premises remain unchallenged, and if anything, its hate-rhetoric is ratcheted up even further. Let's look beyond the mindless propaganda.
Conservatism is compassionate and anti-racist.
It is colorblind and egalitarian. It holds that everyone is created equal and every individual is entitled to dignity and respect. It glorifies individualism and rejects the inhumane and personally devaluing practice of lumping people into categorical groups, racial or otherwise. There is nothing compassionate about collectivism. Indiscriminate transfer payments have undermined the dignity of many individual recipients by fostering their dependence on the nanny-state and have contributed to the breakdown of American families by encouraging illegitimacy.