No one despises smokers more than former smokers. No one. Is that why some Conservatives despise Liberals so? They usta be one?

As far as that, everybody wants to have total control over the other. Power and greed do that to people sometimes. It's never occurred to them that more could be done working together for the good of the people. It simply isn't working out that way no matter what a few people on Answermug say.

Not I, never ever. My momma taught me conservatism, and that goes back to our entire ancestory, some who were genuine pioneers.  Many were poor dirt farmers, but they resisted the 'gimme, gimme' liberalism. They asked their Lord to provide from the soil of the Nebraska prairie, the dells of Wisconsin, and whatever Missouri had to show them.