Kirsten Gillibrands Moment Has Arrived

[Hortensis]

96. It seemed notable that it took into her 40s, when needing

to address problems of her constituents, for her to really appreciate the value of and need to use government for that.

Scientists say conservatives, generally speaking, are every bit as altruistic and caring as liberals, but they tend to feel a duty to fairly limited groups of those they see as their own people, such as can be helped at least somewhat by groups they personally belong to. They'll often give of themselves and their means very long and generously.

Liberal altruism typically embraces far larger and more diverse groups, whole cities, nations, continents, not just neighborhoods, which leads us naturally to ask how government can be used to create big solutions.

And signs of both patterns start manifesting when we're very small.