text: I'm commenting based on what conservative Catholics say on this here blog. They claim higher ground because they worked on a soup line once without knowing whether the other person does it every day. 
  
  
  No one gives as much money to charities of any kind as they did in the 1960s proportional to their income. Neither political extreme volunteers as much as they did prior to the 1960s. The culture wars and the increased focus on individualism have eroded any shared commitment to the common good to the degree we once shared that.