[Opinionated Blowhard]

It is not often that people with deeply held and completely opposing viewpoints actually risk sitting down and listening to one another.

That, in a nutshell, is the liberal view. They don't want to "risk" sitting down with people opposing viewpoints and listening to them. If they did, they might actually realize how extreme they are.

[Chickensoup]

hat, in a nutshell, is the liberal view. They don’t want to “risk” sitting down with people opposing viewpoints and listening to them. If they did, they might actually realize how extreme they are.

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There is another risk for leftists: their leftist acquaintences and friends may shun them for breathing air that an ideological conservative has shared.

Leftists are very narrow people.