“Conservatives believe Liberals are misguided but can be rationed with.”
“Rationed?? How do you “ration” with someone? Rationing with a liberal is probably about as easy as reasoning with a liberal. Reasoning with someone who speaks and thinks in a different language than you do is nearly impossible.
The English language appears to be dying, in the USA at least. It is on the way to being replaced by a kind of gibberish in which the speaker assumes no responsibility for being able to convey any kind of coherent message but assigns the blame to the listener for failing to read what passes for a mind of the speaker. “Don’t be so picky, you know what I mean,” is the general response to anyone pointing out the absurd lack of meaning in what is said. It is amazing that someone who is unable to say what he means presumes to blame the listener for not knowing what he means, assuming that he had any real meaning in mind to begin with. I long for the sort of serious conversation that used to be possible but seems nearly as extinct as the passenger pigeon lately.