I have always noticed something interesting and relevant to this topic:
Whenever issues like war, world hunger, the environment, poverty, etc. come up, you can count on two things:
Liberals with rheir pie-in-the-sky ideas and aspirations,, protesting war, saying we should feed the hungry, give universal Healthcare, switch to alt energy, etc....
And conservatives right there in their faces mocking them, telling them the are bleeding heart moonbats, and "the world doesn't work that way, stupid"...
L: "We should be sending food to the hungry people. The world. Nobody should be starving."
C: "Then do it yourself. The world doesn't work that way. People will still be hungry, moonbat idiot. Why should we be the ones who do all the work and care, when those other people don't, and it's their fault anyway?"
But then the issues of race relations and affirmative action come up, and the conservatives put on their NPR voices and lock hands in a circle and say, "Everyone should just be treated the same. "
Funny, that.