To tell the truth, I really don't know the answer. I can't imagine the moral values of any political party that would do this. I do think some individual conservatives -- such as some of those who have posted hostile answers to this question of yours -- are more ignorant and misinformed than actually evil.
For example, if you just ignore the fact that hungry kids don't learn well in school -- thus wasting money spent on education, and ensuring that many of the next generation of American workers will be badly prepared and economically unproductive -- it may seem like a "waste of taxpayers' dollars" to help poor kids to eat more regularly. But it's not a waste, of course; it undoubtedly helps the kids learn better and saves the US taxpayer money in the long run. Also, if you don't understand the links between bad nutrition and obesity -- if you don't realize how much lower-class Americans are largely confined to diets that are larded up with too much salt, sugar, carbohydrates and fat, while the upper classes & the elites stay skinny by spending a bit more to buy meat, fruit and vegetables -- you may think that poor kids are "eating too much" already.
Well, they are in fact eating too much of the wrong things -- but that's a sign of their poverty, not a sign of their being over-indulged. Although in many cases it may be a sign of bad parenting as well as poverty. But if you just see the national obesity epidemic as a sign that poor kids are getting "spoiled," you may support GOP policies that will worsen both the poverty & the obesity problem.
Mostly, however, I think the answer to your question is that today's GOP is catering to a self-righteous strand of American fundamentalism -- of frontier Calvinism -- that identifies worldly success with virtue, with being "Chosen by God." This same kind of American Calvinism identifies poverty with sin & character defects, and so people adopting this "gospel of wealth" often come to despise the poor, while praising the supposed virtues of the upper classes, who must constitute God's Elect. Why would otherwise sane GOP politicians pander to this basically nasty, self-righteous and selfish form of perverted Christianity?
Why would any Republican with a brain pander to a so-called form of Christian fundamentalism that completely ignores what Jesus taught about showing compassion towards the poor? Well, because this belief system (a) provides a supposed justification for the wealth & often the greed of top GOP campaign contributors, who tend to be enormously wealthy and who want their politicians to support their high status, and (b) because it demonizes one part of lower-class America in the eyes of another part. In calling for socialist revolution, Marx in 1848 made the urgent recommendation: "Working people of all nations - unite!
Because individuals are better at helping people than Government. When your rights and property are secure then you will naturally give to those in need and you'll use good judgment in doing so. The GOP acts to defend your rights and property.
Government always misspends that which they take.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.