A provocative line from David Brooks in The New York Times:
"...we can have a culture war in this country, or we can have a war on poverty, but we can't have both. That is to say, liberals and conservatives can go on bashing each other for being godless hedonists and primitive theocrats, or they can set those differences off to one side and work together to help the needy."
Brooks goes on to suggest what he calls "a natural alliance" between Evangelicals and liberals to end -- or at least ameliorate -- poverty.
Think of it: "The poor you will have with you always -- but it would please me no end if they got harder and harder to find in the course of time."
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