I am a liberal. I believe in helping people. But these days I see cruelty masquerading as righteousness and selfishness labelled as freedom. I see politicians lifting up the powerful and stepping on the already downtrodden.Hubert Humphrey laid out a rubric I think we are doing poorly at:The ultimate moral test of any government is the way it treats three groups of its citizens. First, those in the dawn of life — our children. Second, those in the shadows of life — our needy, our sick, our hand...