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Individual Compassion: Federal Task?

Posted on | June 21, 2011 | 6 Comments

by Smitty

I’m concerned that Lowry at The National Review may be missing the larger point. His article’s point, that we should expect some bizzare pivot on the part of the media to long for the days of Bush43, is a good one, as far as it goes. The Chris Matthews of the world are into recreational perversion of their ideas. The act of making, breaking, and remaking public figures like clay is their favorite pastime; we should give them all clay and set them in the corner of the room while we recover the country from a century of Progressive idiocy.
The deeper problem with Compassionate Conservativism, as dreamt up by Karl Rove and articulated by Bush43, is that it tries to justify Progressive Federal overreach by setting the Golden Rule against the Constitution. We are left with a sprawling Federal government that wants to own your food, health, education, housing, job, and retirement.
As someone who takes a strongly Federalist view of the Constitution, the idea of Washington DC as an organization with copius resources that steps in to alleviate multi-state natural disasters seems ‘about right’ in terms of the ‘compassion’ that would be proper.
The Golden Rule of ‘loving thy neighbor as thyself’ makes good Judeo-Christian sense in the case of actual neighbors. Or, if spiritually led, to take up the cause of distant ‘neighbors’ voluntarily, sure. The dirty reality of the Progressives is that their socialist attitudes, time and again, breed contempt. People do not scale. The Iron Law wins in every situation.

Government

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God

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  • http://www.haemet.blogivists.com Roxeanne de Luca

    IMHO, compassionate conservatism is the idea that we use our money as we
    see fit to improve the world.  The federal government can help by
    giving us tax breaks for charitable giving, such that those dollars go
    tax-free to charitable entities.  It can also help by moving a lot of
    services to the state and local level, which decreases overhead costs,
    improves accountability, and allows flexibility to meet the needs of the
    populations in each state.  Some of this would involve a cut to the
    federal budget and federal taxes, with the assumption that states will
    increase taxes. 

    Compassionate conservatism may differ from libertarianism in that it
    would (or could) offer vouchers and charter schools to help children,
    and do so at the state level, rather than saying, “Public schools
    shouldn’t exist and everything should be funded by charity” (an actual
    idea I’ve heard advanced by libertarians).

  • http://www.thepiratescove.us/ William_Teach

    It comes down to the fact that “Compassionate Conservatism” is nothing more than JFK style liberalism. Sure, they want taxes lower, like the free market, can be tough on crime and Defense, but, they also want Big Nanny Government. It’s not American Conservatism, previously known as Classical Liberalism.

  • Anonymous

    Again, when some Leftard can find me the verse where Christ said charity should be done by stealing other people’s money, I might reconsider my belief in what He actually said, that charity is something to be done privately and anonymously.

  • Anonymous

    As I see it a compassionate conservative is a SoCon Democrat.

  • johnl

    Compassionate conservatism is socialism staffed by Republicans. So in addition to destroying the country, like regular socialism, compassionate conservatism also destroys the credibility GOP and makes socialism the only option to socialism. It would take 10 straight BHO administrations to damage the country like GWB’s first term. 

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