Because this country was founded on conservative values which are proven to work very well(hence the reason we exsist) and now we are being over run by these liberal hippies that want to cry about everything.
122132
"hippies... ?" wasss up w/ that?\ncountry is going to hell because nobody respects anyone \nwe are just surviveing here
669126
Agreed. This country has big enough problems that need ANSWERS and it is frustrating when they haggle and dicker and argue and fight about whose solution is better. It looks terrible to other countries in the world as well, because it looks like we can't get along in Congress any better than the Sunni's or Shiites. \n\nI think it has come to the place in the century where we need to be a whole lot less partisan and a whole lot more moderate. We are in Iraq and other places in the world shouting democracy edicts to other governments and we haggle like children fighting over toys. It is awful.\n\nWhat I think we need to do is to start encouraging younger people in college and just out of college to throw out the boomers who have fermented this nasty tasting wine. We need to get rid of conservatives and liberals alike and Democrats and Republicans alike until they decide to get along. \n\nThese Congressional and legislative members are like the only child in a playpen full of babies. Totally unsure of how to get along with everyone.
570984
People rarely accept the accusations made about ideas that they hold to be truths, especially when the accusations are made by people who are opposed to their ideals.\n\nPeople want to believe things that make them feel better about their lives. They want to feel like they're supporting the good of mankind. Where we all differ greatly is in what we think is good for mankind.\n\nSo people believe the things that stroke their feelings of self worth and reject the ideas that make them feel bad.\n\nThis has nothing to do with conservative values and everything to do with human nature.
452382
You're right, there's a great deal of immaturity involved.  Basically, so-called "conservatives" are pusillanimous little people who hate, fear, and resent anyone who is different from themselves and have a pathological need to destroy them.
569758
We're more of an entertainment-based culture. Allot of it probably also has to do with politicians (notice I didn't say which party; they're all at fault). They just want more money for themselves, and they're willing to steal from us and our military to get it.
571015
It's all about greed, power and self righteousness.\nMedia blasts us with biased information (if we listen to Liberal radio, TV and websites we get an anti Con message and visa verse).  This disinformation actually "uneducates" us spreading hate and intolerance just as uneducated people tend to be racists and bigots. \n\nLiberals will say that conservatives are greedy because they want to keep the money they have worked so hard to get and distribute it the way they see fit ie the government should control your bank account.Basically "what's mine is mine whats yours is mine." \nMost conservatives support many charities but they are charities that they choose. "What's mine is mine."\n\nConservatives think liberals "hate this country" simply because they voice their disdain of the current president and GOP congress. And fear that the Liberals will take the money they worked so hard for just to give to someone else.\n\nThe fundamental of each party have skewn together GOP used to want a smaller government but support "moral laws" while Liberals want bigger government yet taught personal liberties.  \n\nIt will not end, political differences have been around since the dawn of man and woman.
189280
Today it is divided up between religious and secular, liberals and conservatives with one still active group of Republicans working like hell to bring back the agenda. Another of the great divisions comes from how much government do the people of America want? Conservatives and Liberals alike want more federal power over the people including academic education curriculum, one school fits all! Health care must be government controlled which will make it part of any partisan campaign for power. The FDA now wants to control our supplements and we gave them that power within CAFTA. The government will direct our length of stay in the hospital without exceptions and these are liberal and conservative desires. Unless we can stop it, how we die will be a part of the federal government’s plans. We all saw Bush’s reaction to the Schiavo case. \n\nWhat did we expect from a man who had never seen a war, never made a success in any business venture or earned a wage in his life? Could he be expected to keep America free from assault, keep our government out of our personal lives and our business proceedings? His campaign managers knew the GOP agenda but did he? Hell yes they need spanked.
196534
The average American is too busy trying to make a living for their families to set up any kind of organization.  They are also too lazy to learn and realize what the Republicans and George Bush is doing to them.  It'll be too late when they realize they could have done something to make their lives better.
386890
Our greatness lies in the beginning of the Declaration of Independence that ALL men are created equal and deserve life, liberty, and the pursuit of hapiness. Our leaders forgot that concept in the need to forge power for themselves and this nation. Other nations were sold out to brutal puppet governments for the sake of our prosperity and security, but in the end, they sold our security for greed, for power, for corporate interests, because people everywhere will fight for their freedom against all odds and all costs no matter how horrible. We are living now in the "reckoning". Continued hypocricy will destroy us. When America wakes up, we will save ourselves, and in that saving, will again be a great nation based on the enlightnement of our founders.
40485
At least in part.  Movies are an exaggeration.  Compared to most other countries, American culture is decadent.  We waste resources and tend to be arrogant.  Those who lean to the left want to rush into a future untested.  Those who are the most conservative want to go back 20 or more years and pretend nothing has happened.  America is very diverse.  Even people who have lived here all of their lives have no idea of what the country is all about because they might have spent their entire life in one small area.  You would have to see us to believe us.
576123
at the root of the political institutions of the left and right, there are simple human emotions.  Because of this, what those institutions eventually achieve or fail to achieve is ultimately beyond the reach of such institutions to predict, no matter how much the followers of a particular philosophy want it to be otherwise.  \n\nto sum up the emotions I'm referring to: If the status quo benefits someone, they tend to be conservative and on the right.  If the status quo doesn't particularly do any good for a person, they tend to be liberal and on the left.  \n\nthis is why students and young people tend to the left - they have no property or high social status to defend, no great steady job to hang onto.  But these same people, a few years later, often wouldn't be going to protests anymore, because they have a good job and a mortgage and car payments and whatnot.  Generally, as people age they become more conservative.   \n\nthe more status and property people have, the higher their priority is to protect what they've got.  So, the old dad who used to be a hippy, is a grumpy stick-in-the-mud by the time his kids are idealistic teens!\n\nthis dynamic all works on a large, collective scale as well.  It's all about what people have to lose.  The more they have to lose, the further right they drift...
644401
I think it's gone too far, this country is great because of God and for some reason we've forgotten that. It was founded on the belief that God wanted this country not on the idea that we had to make absurd exceptions based on political correctness.
580983
It is media in America's nature to be liberal and slightly anti government because we have free press, if we had a state sponsored press similar to China or Saudi Arabia like some folks would prefer, than we would have a cheerleader press that never criticised the government, and always stood by their side, but people seem to forget, that is un American.
575110
Everyone wants to be right. They think if they say it loud enough or often enough, every else will agree with them. Politics are based on our beliefs not our knowledge.
85443
Conservatives don't want to believe that our government is corrupt.  They want to show support, because it shows good patriotism.
279606
PERHAPS IT IS BECAUSE WE YANKED THIS COUNTRY FROM THEIR HANDS.  WE ALSO YANKED THEIR ASSES FROM BECOMING GERMANS OR RUSSIANS.  WE KEEP ON YANKING THE WORLD ALONG ALTHOUGH IN RETURN WE GET DISRESPECT AND RIDICULE.
197424
because people are dumb, and the priorities have gone all f*cked up.  no one knows which way is up, and we are all going down because of it.