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Consevatives "give more to charity" because they tithe to their churches. Remove the church contributions, and include the liberal "I don't have money so I'll give my time" and liberals give more to charity than conservatives.
On the last day of 2012, Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen inadvertently clarified two huge matters regarding the left.
The first was the ignorance about conservatives and conservatism that permeates the left. The second was the primary reason decent people identify with the left: the effective caricaturing and demonizing of the right. Were it not for caricature and demonization, most otherwise intelligent and decent people would not be on the left.
This is what Cohen wrote in his column, "Republicans Adrift:"
"It is conservatism that is both intellectually exhausted and nearly indefensible. It is the movement of the ideologically ossified,...
It doesn't matter what charity you give to, if taxes were lower there would be more dollars for those charities.