Have you heard the saying, "If you're under 40 and a Republican you have no heart, and if you're over 40 and a Democrat you have no brain?"

I think there's some truth to that saying. In my experience within Christian circles, the progressives usually haven't thought carefully enough about the policy consequences of what they advocate, and the conservatives are often guilty of callousness to the plight of the poor, or at the very least, quite unwilling to show empathy.