Think Lani Guinier. Conservatives and liberals take a fundamentally different approach to politics.
Liberals inhabit a world painted a thousand shades of gray.
Conservatives believe they are battling evil. Liberals believe they are struggling to overcome human frailties. Tolerance is the watchword for liberals. Punishment is the watchword for conservatives. In 1980, when the nation's overworked air traffic controllers went on strike, President Reagan fired every last one.