Never has the “battered wife syndrome” analogy fit a situation as well as the marriage of the conservative movement to the GOPe.
There Is no mention of the media so this analysis of the Liberal/Conservative distinction is flawed.
As I mentioned in my post, another definition would be Sowell's, i.e. the different approach each has to human nature. The left views it as infinitely malleable, while the right recognizes man's fallibility and the inability to fundamentally alter something ordained by God/created through evolution.