Extract from an exceptional article by Wendy Brown on neoliberalism. I think it perfectly explains the moral depravity of conservatism, thinking specifically here about free school meals and the notion of parents having sole responsibility for their children without the state:

The extension of economic rationality to formerly non-economic domains and institutions reaches individual conduct, or, more precisely, prescribes the citizen-subject of a neo-liberal order.

Neo-liberalism normatively constructs and interpellates individuals as entrepreneurial actors in every sphere of life. It figures individuals as rational, calculating creatures whose moral autonomy is measured by their capacity for “self-care”—

the ability to provide for their own needs and service their own ambitions. In making the individual fully responsible for themselves, neoliberalism equates moral responsibility with rational action;

it erases the discrepancy between economic and moral behavior by configuring morality entirely as a matter of rational deliberation about costs, benefits, and consequences. But in so doing, it carries responsibility for the self to new heights:

the rationally calculating individual bears full responsibility for the consequences of their action no matter how severe the constraints on this action—for example, lack of skills, education, and child care in a period of high unemployment and limited welfare benefits.

Correspondingly, a “mismanaged life,” the neoliberal appellation for failure to navigate impediments to prosperity, becomes a new mode of depoliticizing social and economic powers and at the same time reduces political citizenship to an unprecedented degree of passivity.

The model neoliberal citizen is one who strategizes for themselves among various social, political, and economic options, not one who strives with others to alter or organize these options. A fully realized neoliberal citizenry would be the opposite of public-minded;

indeed, it would barely exist as a public. The body politic ceases to be a body but is rather a group of individual entrepreneurs and consumers.

Here's the full article for anyone that is interested: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-1NF2uhwIdgfqG-dOMFCZCOwSE9TeQoY/view?usp=sharing