"We conservatives don't hate you!"

I'm glad if that's true. But the impression I get from pretty well everything I read and see on the box is that, in the USA at any rate, "conservatives" and "liberals" really do hate each other in a rather frightening way.

Maybe it's just that the haters speak out more loudly and persistantly, and get into positions of influence.

A lot of the issues that seem to be taken as definitive are issues that really shouldn't be anything to do with party politics anyway.