The numerous attempts to establish an explicitly national
liberal and conservative party were thus pushed towards the extreme right in order to extend their electoral appeal.
First, these findings are just one small slice of an emerging body of science
on liberal and conservative psychological differences, which I discuss in detail in my forthcoming book.
The study asked participants about the strength of their belief in any of 10 conspiracy theories, split evenly between those associated
with liberal and conservative perspectives.
No matter how windy the debate becomes among
white liberals and conservatives as to what should be done in the public sphere, meeting this self - creating challenge ultimately depends upon black action.
Instead of viewing the left and the right as either inherently correct or wrong, a more scientific approach is to recognize that
liberals and conservatives emphasize different moral values.
However,
liberal and conservative civic educators can not agree on proper civic virtues, turning our public schools into just another front in the culture wars.
Liberals and conservatives who want more for the public square than echo chambers and outrage factories should hope that Maajid Nawaz wins his lawsuit, and that the SPLC learns a costly lesson about bearing false witness.
As
many liberals and conservatives push for national academic standards and other centralizing education reforms, this situation brilliantly illustrates why government schooling is totally antithetical to a free society, and why the more centralized the power, the greater the danger.
The world of the books and game is a rather bleak one, with extreme
liberal and conservative political beliefs polarizing the United States to the point of starting a second Civil War.