Conservatives demand nothing. Like a puppy dog, rightists just forget about it the next day. Liberals have no doglike loyalty. The left is loyal only to its principles. Liberals do not forget any betrayal.
Liberals tend to get their way.
Robert Heinlein, the science fiction writer, said many things I did not agree with. But he hit upon one great, eternal truth. So, out here in the real world, there are two forces. The other force is conservatism, which worships uniforms, Republicans, church leaders, trendy opinion, and whatever is in today's newspapers. If anything we treasure is to survive, we are going to have to dedicate ourselves to a third way.