(July 6, 2014 at 6:01 pm)Blackout Wrote: I think both liberals and conservatives should try to reach an agreement while making decisions instead of verbally and reciprocally insulting and bashing each others with prejudiced expressions that only confirm stereotypes, eg Liberals calling conservatives 'racist' because they are against affirmative action, or conservatives claiming liberals 'want to live with other people's money' just because they want to regulate major business to prevent abuses.
American conservatives abhor the very idea of compromise. I don't mean that as an exaggeration; it is literal truth. Republicans who aren't conservative enough are referred to as "RINO" (Republican In Name Only) and are castigated by the conservative base.
If one side is dead set on never, ever compromising with us, the only options available to the rest of us are either being just as uncompromising or allowing them to run roughshod and make things even worse than they have.
I don't think anybody but the hardest conservatives have made the choice, unilaterally, that everybody else in this country is an enemy to be destroyed without mercy, but moderate conservatives are being purged and since that's the choice they've made, they've made an ideological death struggle inevitable.
