[Jeff Higgins]

I think you missed my point. Your distinction between conservatives maintaining the status quo, and liberals altering it by "allow(ing) everyone's values, whatever they may be" only works if that last statement is followed. Unfortunately, the values the liberals seek to introduce are not in addition to existing conservative values, they are instead of. Many facets of the older conservative value system and the newer liberal value system are mutually exclusive. On many specific points it boils down to one or the other. I don't think liberals see that as clearly as conservatives.