Under conservative leadership each person rises or falls based on merit, as does the free market and yes some people fail but without failures we as a species never learn and we certainly would not strive to be better. Statists believe everyone is the same and should be kneeling at the government alter, whatever happen to the freedom to choose a religion? What if I do not believe everyone is the same? What if I want to try and create something or just improve myself? Under conservative rules that would be the norm but under liberal statist agenda it is and will be punished.
We know, each of us, what is right and what is wrong. We know that we as individuals should help others in need, it is the right thing to do but it is not our government’s responsibility to help others of any kind. The government is for protection and foreign diplomacy to include foreign trade. Why can’t we act like a good people should and do the giving ourselves?
Another interesting aspect of conservative thought is that when the government fails to protect the citizens the citizens have the right and responsibility to protect themselves. Liberal thought would prefer you to be helpless. Now if the government had worked on their primary reason for existing it may be better at protection needing self defense less, but alas it has been so involved with other aspects of our lives it cannot do protection very well at all. Just ask anyone in Chicago.
Liberal thought is based on good intentions and I understand the idea of giving and being responsible for all people, but we are also responsible to ourselves and our families. Conservative thought may seem harsh at times but it only seems that way because we are a compassionate people and want to help others, and we should but not with government money, with our own, who would have more of if the government had less.
I dare any grandparent to look into the eyes of their grandchild and say that this child deserves no more than anyone else and should provide for others even those who refuse to provide for themselves, without choice and without personality. You would be condemning your grandchild to a life of slavery and most of us myself included would find this to be impossible to do. I want the best for my children and grandchildren but I want it to come to them on their talents and their judgment so they are happy and content not eating from the same trough everyone else is eating from because their talents do not matter to the state.
Remember in a hive minded society all the drones are the same and there is only one queen, not a society I would choose to live in nor do I want my children or grandchildren to live in.