Feminism was established as to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream of society. Follow the money. Liberals attempt through judicial activism what they cannot win at the ballot box. Using federal dollars as a measure, our cities have not been neglected, but poisoned with welfare dependency funds. Progress is not striving for economic justice or fairness, but economic growth.
Liberals measure compassion by how many people are given welfare.
Conservatives measure compassion by how many people no longer need it. Compassion is no substitute for justice. The culture war is between the winners and those who think they're losers who want to become winners. The losers think the only way they can become winners is by banding together all the losers and then empowering a leader of the losers to make things right for them. The Los Angeles riots were not caused by the Rodney King verdict.