How Should Conservatives Deal with the Left’s Disrespect and Lack of Empathy?
@133 goy: “It requires a very special sort of self-delusion to ignore the fact that conservatives have been sympathetic to liberals’ ‘feelings’ for decades, if not a full century, as demonstrated by the relentless compromise conservatives/republicans have pursued in response to socialist/progressive ideology.”
Those “compromises” were just the result of being outvoted. Most of your fellow Americans decided to do something different than you thought they should. Conservatives fought those moves tooth and nail, the same way they fought health care reform. Or do you think Reagan’s famous anti-Medicare speech somehow showed a willingness to compromise?
I like the Card essay. I suggest conservatives read this part over and over: “Most of the people who supported Obamacare did so because they wanted to solve real problems in the real world.” I’m not saying conservatives aren’t (see how empathetic I am?), just that we’re all trying to make this a better country the best way we know how.
