Image Problems In Arthur C. Brooks The Conservative Heart

In the book called “The Conservative Heart,” Arthur C. Brooks talks about the image problem facing today’s conservatives and offers his solution. The audience that he is speaking to in this book seems to be the politicians, in this case that are either running or considering to run, for the republican nomination for presidency.
The image problem that he talks about is that conservatives too often resemble Ebenezer Scrooge. This is because of them opposing increases in the minimum wage, advocating cuts in corporate taxes, railing against excessive regulation of business and worrying about the cost of entitlement programs, they appear to care only about the rich and well connected, which seems to be because those are the ones with the money …show more content…
Take for example the proposal for the president wanting to increase the minimum wage. He talks on this subject quite strongly, but like I said it is wrong because it is so dominated by the first impression. And the first impression in this case is that they are trying to make the conservatives look bad right off the bat because all America see is the fact that they want to fight the fact of minimum wage when really they have their many reasons that are clearly not stated in this …show more content…
Poor Americans may be better off than poor Africans.” At the end of the day though they are still poor and the rate of the people in poverty hasn’t been changing, but at the same time the rich has been getting richer. Still the work has been disappearing for those at the bottom; government dependency has grown and mobility has fallen. When will this all change? If it will even at all, the rich are just going to keep getting stronger and closer with the government according to Brooks, which I do believe is very true and needs to stop