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A Heartwarming Tale Of A Bake Sale And A Fundraising Concert
Conservatives love these stories, I assume because it allows them to nurse the fantasy that they all live in a Normal Rockwell painting, and the rest of us could all live in that Norman Rockwell painting, except Mean Big Govt gets in the way of our charity.
This enrages me. The other thing which enrages me are heartwarming local interest stories about a community and friends who got together and figured out how to raise the $180,000 needed to keep somebody's kid from dying of cancer or whatever. That people do this is heartwarming, that it is necessary means we're monsters.
http://www.eschatonblog.com/2012/09/a-heartwarming-tale-of-bake-sale-and.html
http://www.eschatonblog.com/2012/09/a-heartwarming-tale-of-bake-sale-and.html
