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I always imagined that I was full of heart, but it turned out that I was oblivious. Like so many Republicans, I had assumed that society’s “losers” had somehow earned their deserts. As I came to recognize that poverty is not earned or chosen or deserved, and that our use of force is far less precise than I had believed, I realized with a shock that I had effectively viewed whole swaths of the country and the world as second-class people.

Why I left the GOP - Salon.com (via golden-bopit)

Interesting read by someone who grew up with a very different view of the world than I did.

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Source: salon.com

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