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Di Leo: Misplaced Compassion Puts Lives in Jeopardy

John F. Di Leo by John F. Di Leo
November 14, 2022
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A common charge in western republics has been the claim that conservatives insist on thinking rationally and have no compassion, while liberals make all their decisions on feelings, and refuse to use their heads. 

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In the oft-misattributed aphorism, Winston Churchill first summed up this difference as: “If you’re not a liberal at 20, you have no heart; if you’re not a conservative by 40, you have no brain.”

Throughout the centuries-long struggle between the constitutionally-limited government and a Marxist welfare state, this tug-of-war between heart and head — between compassion and the rule of law — has remained at the core of so many of our policy disagreements. 

Should government insist on self-sufficiency, or issue welfare checks?  Do we rely on the self-policing of the invisible hand of the free market, or do we micromanage every business with crippling regulations?  Do we let a big business go under, or do we make future taxpayers bail it out?

The Left’s positions are always considered the “compassionate” ones. But are they really?  Perhaps the wrong side is getting credit for caring. Perhaps it’s time the Right starts fighting this method of classification.

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John F. Di Leo

John F. Di Leo is a Chicagoland-based trade compliance trainer and transportation manager, writer, and actor. Once a County Chairman of the Milwaukee County Republican Party in the 1990s, after serving as president of the Ethnic American Council in the 1980s, he has been writing regularly for Illinois Review since 2009. Professionally, he is a licensed Customs broker, and has worked in freight forwarding and manufacturing for over forty years. John is available for very non-political training seminars ranging from the Incoterms to the workings of free trade agreements, as well as fiery speeches concerning the political issues covered in his columns. His book on vote fraud, “The Tales of Little Pavel,” his three-volume political satires of the Biden-Harris regime, “Evening Soup with Basement Joe,” and his new non-fiction work covering the 2024 campaign, "Current Events and the Issues of Our Age," are available in eBook or paperback, only on Amazon.   

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