Medved is more practical minded than most conservative talk show hosts. But he may recognize (but won't admit) what I posted years ago. Americans' life experiences have become so homogenized, that many of us feel vulnerable. So many of us have fallen on hard or harder financial times, have diseases of all types, unwanted pregnancies, divorces, drug and alcohol problems, and criminals in our families and among our friends and relatives that it's become more difficult to spout turn our backs on those in the same boat. Staunch conservatives refuse to recognize such.