Cruella
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yeah, I agree with that statement... so what does that have to do with undecided voters who don't support either party again?
Nothing. I was responding to your post. You brought up the sidebar of incarceration.
I've never committed a crime or been to jail or anything like that. I just happen to care about people, and have gotten to know plenty of them and plenty of their stories. Some people will probably never learn, and keep making the same mistake until they die (and that's true not just for criminals but everyone in all areas of life.) And others, thanks to some caring individuals who actually believed in them and stuck with them, have succeeded in making lives out of what used to be a one way ticket to disaster. Plenty of people had written them off as being born bad and a waste of time, but thankfully, not everyone listened.
That's great. I too believe that there are shades of grey in every aspect of life. (Think I said that already)
Conservatives like to write any attempt at social change as being wishy-washy liberal fantasies that just waste taxpayer's time and money. Like everything else, that is probably true in some situations, and untrue in others. But spending money helping people makes a lot more sense than spending money fighting them.
Painting conservatives as black or white and uncaring doesn't work here either. Shades of grey, remember?
I don't know any conservative that doesn't believe in helping people. Spending money isn't the problem either, as long as we have it to spend. The problem is with telling people that they don't have to be responsible for their own lives and expect that someone else will take care of them.