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@@ -36,4 +36,6 @@ Inextricably bound up in all this is the notion that conservatives are unreachab
 
 For example: conservatives not caring about abortion until someone close to them needs one. If you do not believe that there are right things and wrong things—if you do not believe that pregnant women dying of sepsis in hospital parking lots is a wrong thing, then until the pregnant woman dying of sepsis in a hospital parking lot is your wife or your daughter, it simply does not matter.
 
-I need you to _believe_ that there are right things and that there are wrong things.
+Furthermore, if belief lies in the acts, then the hostility towards and dismantling of the social safety net is a deliberate to make it harder to act in accordance with your beliefs and to make it harder to believe.
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+Nonetheless, I need you to _believe_ that there are right things and that there are wrong things.