Conservatives used to believe in confronting hard truths, not succumbing to comforting fairy tales. Some still do.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving.
Conservatives and liberals understand the Christian faith as a set of ideas because, so understood, Christianity seems to be a set of beliefs assessable to anyone upon reflection.
The Conservatives must realise that being sceptical is different from being phobic in what is an interdependent world.
The thing is, fairytales were once a very gritty way for people to dialogue about aspects of life.
At times, conservatives become defined by their volume rather than by their ideas.
A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead.
Being veterans of the struggle to push back against fundamentalist Christians, American liberals are well acquainted with the pitfalls of the neoconservative flirtation with the religious-right.
Conservatives saw the savagery of 9/11 in the attacks and prepared for war; liberals saw the savagery of the 9/11 attacks and wanted to prepare indictments and offer therapy and understanding for our attackers.
It's awfully hard to get into the head of a liberal. Instead of logic and reason, they are drawn to emotions and feelings.
It is one of the truisms of politics that a conservative is often enough a former liberal who has been 'mugged by reality.'