Words are inadequate

I agree that there are some conservative segments who don't truly get why tolerance is important. However, I don't think that every liberal segment really has the concept down either. I have often felt like the thrust has been to open and warm conservatives' minds to liberal approaches and vocabulary, but not the other way around. That tolerance of conservative ideas would be akin to moving backwards and not simply respect of a different perspective.

The unfortunate part of speaking in these generalities is that "conservative" and "liberal" means very different things to different people. I think it likely that no two people who assign themselves one of these labels ascribes to the exact same set of ideas, anyway.