Read Howard Husock’s The Compassion Gap in City Journal.
Reviewing Who Really Cares: America’s Charity Divide—Who Gives, Who Doesn’t, and Why It Matters by Arthur C. Brooks, Mr. Hussock concludes that conservatives give more to charities than liberals do—by a long shot.
As I wrote in Charity vs the Welfare State, ..... from 1620 to 1933, all public welfare activity was at the state and local levels, primarily through churches, local charity groups, immigrant societies, and fraternal organizations like the Elks and Shriners. Those groups operated hospitals and schools for the disabled and the sick. For a few cents in weekly dues per household, they provided social insurance to support widows, orphans, and the disabled. Members in good standing with their fraternal and sisterly organizations would be cared for and supported by them in times of difficulty.
The atheistic materialism of liberal-socialist-progressivism has succeeded in eradicating recollection of that history in the Blue-State Northeast, upper Midwest, and Left Coast. There people are more concerned with micro-managing everyone else’s daily life, along with the weather system of the whole world, than with helping their neighbors.
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