Meant to include you too, hard core leftists tend to be atheists in my experience, so the main problem is that their ideology is their god. Therefore they do not care about people (or anything they have to say), they only care about gaining converts. Only God seems to fix that, get them to church.
Thanks for the inclusion. To elaborate on the guy across the street I mentioned...he moved here from Nashua, NH about 16-17 years ago and constantly complained about Texas (in spite of the tremendous job opportunity it afforded him in IT) and our Conservative and Christian values. He was a dyed-in-the-wool liberal.
To fast forward the lengthy story, his conversation came via his daughter who was born here in Texas and became a cheerleader and started adopting "our" ways, including picking up a bit of a Texas twang. A group of us invited her to a youth prayer meeting at our congregation. A number of her high school friends were there and she started coming on a regular basis. I could go on in much further detail but it really boils down to Isaiah 11:6. Although we were indirectly involved, it was the (not so) little child leading her father to Conservatism, first evidenced by him voting for Ted Cruz in 2012 for Senator. Now he's full-on Tea Party and has recently started coming to our church.
Oh sure, he still complains about the hot Texas weather and waxes nostalgic about the cool summers of New England. But that minor character flaw aside, there you have the Reader's Digest story of a liberal turned Conservative.