Re: Good point.
<The unwillingness to understand others, and what looks like a punitive reaction to people not just like themselves is a real downside to the right-wing, conservative political view.
For left-wing liberals, too. Hell, you want to be blunt about it, it's a downside to the whole human race. The instinct to separate into "us" and "them" and then throw rocks at "them" is behind most of the pain in this world, and from what I know of biology, and anthropology, it's probably hardcoded in us back at the monkey level. Our closest genetic relatives, the chimps, engage in wars and genocide.