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Compassion, religion, and politics.
AS FILM director Mel Brooks once said, "Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die." Of course, he was talking about the darker side of the comedian's art. But to listen to the American news media and many of our most prominent opinion leaders, you would think he was describing political conservatives' outlook on life. The Right, so the thinking goes, is baldly uncompassionate. One would almost get the impression that they reveled in their schadenfreude. For example, after 20 years, the most frequent criticism of Ronald Reagan's presidency appears to be its lack of compassion: for AIDS victims, the homeless, racial minorities, and ...
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