>Actually conservatives and liberals do share a lot of values They share two or three values: care and fairness for sure, and maybe liberty (not necessarily a

>Actually conservatives and liberals do share a lot of values They share two or three values: care and fairness for sure, and maybe liberty (not necessarily a value held by either group, but one held by some subset of both groups). That doesn't contradict my statement that liberals are unable to understand and empathize with conservative views. Views are based on values. Lacking the values that create the view makes it very hard to understand the view. >Conservatives go on to add additional values to the set V Precisely, they add loyalty, authority and sanctity. Liberals do not have these values, often even viewing them as evil. And so they do not understand the views based on those values. Conservatives do have the values liberals do, and so they can understand the views based on those values.