Liberals have to get pushed to the bring. Liberals are nice people in nature. They want to be liked. Conservatives value the power structure, and base their worth on their place in it. That's why any threat to the power structure is met with hostility.
"...the successful annihilation of organized crime's subculture in America would rock the 'legitimate' world's foundation, which would ultimately force fundamental social changes and redistributions of wealth and power in this country. Meyer Lansky's dream was to bond the two worlds together so that one could not survive without the other." - Dan E. Moldea
