If you lived in the 1970’s, where liberals were the minority, conservatives shouted down liberals as communists, nigger lovers, un Christian, traitors, etc, etc, etc. Why liberals made good inroads in the early days is they actually had a saying “I do not agree with you, but I will defend your right to say it”. Liberals broke into two groups, one is libertarian like, and the other is statists. Among the statists (big gov) they have the liberal wing and the leftist wing. The leftist wing is the most dangerous because they would not hesitate to go facist and violent. SEIU, ACORN, most minority leftist groups, Communist, etc etc. The liberal wing (more like Clintonista) represent 1/3 of the party; 1/3 is made up of voters who hesitate to vote GOP because they feel the GOP support corporate America more then Main Street America, and the other 1/3 is the radical left who wants a EU style society enforced by a facist government. It is funny, the intolerant conservatives of the 1960’s is replaced by a civil conservative movement and the main reason is the new conservatives frame their behavior and principles on the US Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Something the 1960’s liberals started with but ceded the movement to the violent radicals of the 1960’s in terms of intimidation, violence and facist tactics.