It seems to me the more "conservative" someone is the more concerned they are with ramming their brand of beliefs and politics into your life.
The more liberal someone is the more they are less likely to not like that.
Seems to me there was a time when the two sides could coexist with some mutual respect or at least friendly tolerance. Something changed, in the sixties I believe, that turned liberalism from a benign focus on do-goodism to a Marxist point of view, thanks to the Cultural Marxism that was growing in the universities. Feminism is one thing, Marxist feminism is something else. Etc. (ABE: I remember going to a meeting about gay rights where the audience was harangued by the speaker in an angrily baccusatory and threatening way, about how we are ALL "really" homosexuals" and how we have to see things his way or else. I considered myself a liberal in those days but I wanted to walk out, only I was intimidated into sitting it out. I was shaking when I left). And my experience of the left from that point on was that they were extremely aggressive about ramming their self-righteous views down everybody else's throat. Conservatism as we now experience it, grew in reaction against all that, starting with the Moral Majority. It used to represent a reasonable patriotism and a reasonable capitalism that could dialogue with the reasonable do-goodism of the liberal side. But thanks to the infiltration of Cultural Marxism and its Political Correctness, which is nothing but ramming leftism down our throats, the country has become polarized in a very unhealthy way. I don't see a way out of it myself.
Edited by Faith, : No reason given.